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Global Economics Watch

Explore the world's economic and human development landscape at your fingertips.

Global Economics Watch transforms complex global data into stunning, interactive visualisations — making it easy to understand how countries compare across hundreds of indicators spanning decades of history.

Explore a World of Data Pan and zoom an interactive world map that colours every country by its performance on any indicator. Switch between adaptive and ranked colour scales to instantly spot global patterns, outliers, and regional trends.

Hundreds of Indicators Browse World Bank economic indicators — GDP, trade, health, education, and more — alongside UNDP Human Development indices including HDI, GII, PHDI, IHDI, and Gender Development Index. Switch between Individual, Composite, and NAERI indicator categories with a single tap.

Travel Through Time Drag the year slider to animate decades of change. Watch economies rise and fall, development improve, and inequalities shift — all on the same map.

Deep Country Comparisons Select your indicators and instantly rank countries by performance. Swipe to the radar chart for a side-by-side component breakdown of up to 10 countries, revealing the dimensions behind each composite score.

Human Development Groups Filter countries by UNDP development group — Very High, High, Medium, and Low — to focus your analysis on the regions that matter most to you.

Clean, Modern Design Built with a refined glass-effect interface optimised for both light and dark mode, Global Economics Watch puts the data front and centre without clutter.

Data sourced from the World Bank and UNDP Human Development Reports.