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Bulldoze the noise. Mine the signal.

Visual data stories and 188 public, parsed datasets — surveys, IMF & World Bank macro, democracy and wellbeing — every number sourced, every metric explained.

News & data stories

What the data is saying

Visual stories built on public data.

World Happiness Report

The world’s happiest countries

Who tops the ranking, how happiness tracks income, and what actually drives it.

The whole world at a glance — every country scored across 8 open datasets, happiness among them. Spin the globe or switch to the flat map, then click a country for its key indicators.

Read the story · happiest countries 2025 →

🎯 Country Quiz — one mystery country, five real statistics. Most people lose to a chimp. Will you? New game 🎲 Try other charts →

🌍 Ready?

10 rounds · 4 options each · up to 5 clues per round.
Answer on clue 1 → 5 pts … on clue 5 (the flag) → 1 pt. Miss → 0.

The world’s strongest democracies

The liberal-democracy leaders — and the countries at the bottom of the scale.

World Values Survey

The map of the world’s values

The Inglehart-Welzel cultural map — where every country sits on two value dimensions.

The shape of national culture

Hofstede’s power distance vs individualism — the cultural fault lines between societies.

Russia went online — but not everyone

Internet use in Russia since 2012, and the stark generation gap, from RLMS microdata.

Featured dashboards

Jump straight into the numbers.

Real GDP Growth

Annual percentage change of real gross domestic product. IMF WEO, 2019–2026.

IMF World Economic Outlook (Apr 2026)

Liberal Democracy (V-Dem)

Liberal Democracy. V-Dem Institute — Varieties of Democracy, 2018–2025.

V-Dem Institute — Varieties of Democracy

Life Expectancy

Average number of years a newborn is expected to live (IHME). Gapminder, 2006–2013.

Gapminder (open data, ddf)

Inflation (CPI)

Annual percentage change of average consumer prices. IMF WEO, 2019–2026.

IMF World Economic Outlook (Apr 2026)

Corruption Perceptions Index (QoG)

Corruption Perceptions Index. Quality of Government Institute (University of Gothenburg), 2017–2024.

Quality of Government Institute (University of Gothenburg)

Internet Users

Share of the population using the internet. Gapminder, 2017–2024.

Gapminder (open data, ddf)

Data release calendar

When the next big numbers drop — sorted by what’s coming up.

Quarterly BIS — Credit statistics ↗ Quarterly update of credit to households, firms and government as a share of GDP. April & October IMF World Economic Outlook ↗ Flagship global growth, inflation and fiscal forecasts. The Update lands in January & July. Spring & autumn Eurobarometer (Standard) ↗ The European Commission’s twice-yearly read on EU public opinion. December Latinobarómetro report ↗ Annual report on democracy and society across 18 Latin American countries. January & June World Bank — Global Economic Prospects ↗ The World Bank’s twice-yearly outlook for the world and developing economies. February Transparency Int’l — Corruption Perceptions Index ↗ The most-cited global corruption ranking, scoring 180 countries.

Browse

All 188 datasets, every source, fully interactive.

Charts

Pick any indicator, period and country — bars, table or world map.

Macro

122 objective indicators — economy, demographics, health, governance, environment, risk.

Polls

66 opinion & perception studies — happiness, attitudes, risk perception.

Glossary

Plain-language explanations of every metric and method.