Key World Statistics

306 key world statistics on one page: the headline figure from every GlobeChart topic, each linked to its charts and sources. Figures come from the page they link to, where the year, source and method are shown.

Economy & Finance

US bank failures 1930–1933

Bitcoin market capitalisation (Oct 2026)

Past US recessions preceded by 10y-3m yield curve inversion

Fed balance sheet (28 Oct 2026)

Consumer spending share of GDP (advanced economies)

US corporate profits / GDP (2023)

US Big Mac price (Jan 2026)

Total crypto market capitalisation

Singapore Heritage score (highest in 2024)

DXY (ICE US dollar index, 30 Oct 2026)

Women's labour force participation (world, 2025)

Adults with an account (2024)

Total global FX reserves (2025 Q3)

Global online gig workers (World Bank range)

Theoretical Gini range

world GDP nominal (2026 projection)

World Gini coefficient (1820, estimated)

global CPI inflation (2026 projection)

US Federal Reserve funds rate

global stock market capitalization

global unemployment rate (2026)

Gold spot price (USD/oz, Oct 2026)

Hong Kong median multiple (Demographia 2026, worst)

share of national pre-tax income

Informal workers globally

International tourist arrivals (2024)

Global LFPR, 2024 (ages 15+)

World GDP per capita 1000 AD (1990 $, Maddison)

world military spending (2025)

Australia minimum wage (highest in OECD)

US M2 money supply (2024)

Average OECD government spending / GDP

Global government debt 2025

OECD average public pension spending as % of GDP

US labour productivity growth 1947–1973

China GDP (PPP, 2024)

world R&D spending (2024)

US recessions since 1945 (NBER)

SDG 10.c target on global average sending cost

Global SWF assets under management (2025)

Global average statutory corporate tax rate

Global top 1% wealth share

Global Trade

Air cargo demand growth in 2024 (CTK, vs 2023)

US share of global arms exports (2020-24)

Cumulative BRI engagement since 2013 (Griffith/GFDC)

Identified commodity supercycles since 1900

Goods × 2 countries — the minimum case

Global counterfeit trade, 2021

Japan's 2022 yen-buying intervention (¥9.2 trillion)

US customs duties share of federal revenue, FY2025 (1.6% in FY2024)

digitally delivered services exports (2025)

Japan's ECI score (rank #1)

OECD DAC ODA total (2023)

RTAs in force worldwide

SEZs operating worldwide

of US firms planned to relocate supply chains by 2026 (survey)

Average US tariff on dutiable imports after Smoot-Hawley (peak 1932)

World services exports (2025)

Drewry WCI composite per 40ft container (29 Oct 2026)

US average effective tariff before the February 2026 ruling

Countries where commodities are 60%+ of exports

regional trade agreements in force (WTO)

imports affected by new barriers (2024-2025)

of global exports from Asia

USD share of SWIFT cross-border payments

World trade as % of GDP (2024)

US goods trade deficit (2023)

USD share of global FX reserves (Q2 2026)

World exports / GDP in 1820

China goods exports (2024)

US goods imports

Current WTO membership

CO₂ Emissions

Arctic warming rate vs global average

Remaining for 1.5°C from 2026 (50% probability, 4 years)

Current operational CCS capacity

Active carbon pricing instruments worldwide (2025)

Global climate finance, 2022 (CPI)

Identified Earth-system tipping elements

People living within 10m of sea level

Net CO₂ imported by the US (2023)

China CO₂ emissions, 2024 (32% of global)

Power & heat share (15.3 Gt CO₂e, flat in 2025)

Global CO₂ per person (2024)

Ocean share of annual anthropogenic CO₂ absorption

Cumulative fossil CO₂, 1750–2024

Global CO₂ per $GDP (PPP, 2022, down from 0.43 in 2000)

Heatwave frequency increase in mid-latitudes since 1970

Annual gross CO₂ absorption by world forests

Glacier ice lost 2000–2023 (GlaMBIE)

Human-induced warming above 1850–1900 (2025)

Radiative forcing from CO₂ since 1750

Cumulative CO₂ 1750-2024, fossil + land use (~94% of 1.5°C total)

atmospheric lifetime (much shorter than CO₂)

Methane Pledge reduction target by 2030

Countries with net-zero pledges

Current average surface ocean pH

Parties to the Paris Agreement (USA left in 2026)

Sea level rise since 1880

Transport CO₂ in 2022 (IEA)

Annual area burned globally

Energy

Volume-weighted Li-ion pack price (2024)

Global biofuel production 2024

Global coal consumption 2024 (record)

Mineral demand multiplier for net-zero (IEA 2024)

People without electricity access (2023)

Global demand growth in 2024

global electricity generation in 2024

South Korea T&D losses

Denmark residential price

total primary energy consumption (2024)

Enriched uranium fuel as burned in a reactor

World energy intensity per $ GDP, 2021

People without electricity access globally

Biomass share of 1800 energy mix

clean energy investment globally (2024)

fossil fuel consumption globally (2024)

IMF total subsidies, 2022 (7.1% of GDP)

Nord Stream 1 capacity (now destroyed)

Global geothermal electricity capacity

Heating+cooling share of building energy use

installed hydropower capacity

Global LNG trade 2023

Global gas flared 2023

Operating reactors worldwide

Brent crude, 30 Oct 2026 (USD/barrel)

World proven reserves (end-2024)

Nuclear (site-area average)

total renewable capacity worldwide (2024)

Solar PV module spot price (2024)

Global annual hydrogen consumption

Global wind capacity (2024)

Poverty

People covered by cash transfer programmes

Children in child labour, 2024

multidimensionally poor exposed to climate hazards

People moderately or severely food insecure

Current global Gini coefficient (down from ~0.72 in 1990)

People homeless worldwide (UN-Habitat estimate)

People living in slums or informal settlements

world HDI (2023, record high)

Active microfinance borrowers worldwide

people live in multidimensional poverty

Difference in lifetime earnings between bottom and top education levels

OECD child poverty rate (average)

multiplier effect for every $1 transferred

of extreme poor live in Sub-Saharan Africa

People in slums (2022)

People with no social protection coverage

Working poor (under $3.65/day, 2017 PPP)

Daily unpaid care work hours by women in low-income countries

Extreme poor living in rural areas

Denmark intergenerational income elasticity (high mobility)

Women aged 25-34 in poverty per 100 men, world avg

Annual deaths from work-related causes

Share of NEET young people who are women

Health

People living with dementia worldwide

fine particulate matter, the dominant indicator

WHO annual PM2.5 guideline

Global per-capita pure alcohol consumption (15+)

Deaths directly attributable to AMR (2019)

New cancer cases per year

Annual CVD deaths globally

Share of deaths from non-communicable disease

Under-5 mortality circa 1800 (global)

reported COVID-19 deaths (15-28M excess estimates)

People affected by oral diseases globally

Adults living with diabetes worldwide

Human disease ever eradicated (smallpox, 1980)

people used drugs in the past year (2022)

total years of healthy life lost a year (modelled)

World TFR around 1800

global healthcare spending, 2022 (9.9% GDP)

global average life expectancy (2023)

global maternal mortality ratio (2023)

Projected global health worker shortage by 2030

people living with HIV (2024)

beds per 1,000 — South Korea (highest)

Annual infant deaths (under 1)

malaria cases (2023)

People living with a mental disorder (2019; WHO now says over 1 billion)

People with one or more micronutrient deficiencies

Adult obesity prevalence (BMI ≥ 30)

global health spending paid out-of-pocket (2022)

1918 influenza pandemic deaths

Global pharmaceutical spending 2024

Adults globally insufficiently active

Annual pollution-attributable deaths

Annual road traffic deaths (WHO 2024)

suicide deaths worldwide (2021)

Annual tobacco-attributable deaths

people fell ill with TB (2023)

global service coverage index (2021)

DTP3 global coverage (2025)

Deaths prevented by EPI vaccines since 1974

Education

Girls lead boys in PISA reading (points)

OECD average primary class size

Per school computer in OECD (typical)

Children of school age out of school

OECD average pre-primary enrollment (age 3-5)

tertiary gender parity index (113 women per 100 men)

global annual education spending

global adult literacy rate (5.4B people)

Global adult literacy circa 1800

children/youth out of school total

US homeschooled students (advocacy estimate, 2024)

Internationally mobile students (2022)

English language learners globally

Learning poverty in LMICs (children unable to read simple text by age 10)

10-year-olds learning poor in low- & middle-income countries (2022)

Nordic adult learning participation

Out of school in 2024

Chinese STEM PhDs a year (CSET projection for 2025)

Singapore math score (highest globally)

Global primary enrollment in private schools

Average private return per year of schooling worldwide

Children receiving school meals worldwide

Chinese annual STEM graduates (all tertiary levels)

OECD average primary teacher salary after 15 yrs (USD PPP)

Global tertiary enrolment

German upper-secondary in vocational track

Mean years of schooling — world adults (2024)

Population

people aged 65+ globally (2024)

Crude birth rate per 1,000, 1800

Contraceptive prevalence, any method (married women 15-49, 2022)

Global total dependency ratio (per 100 working age)

US crude divorce rate per 1,000 (2024)

Global average household size

births per woman globally (2024)

international migrants globally (2024)

Estimated global internal migrants (lifetime, not annual flow)

Global internet users (2024)

World life expectancy at birth (years)

People living alone worldwide

US marriage rate per 1,000 (2024)

World median age in 2024 (years)

International migrants worldwide

World average density (people per km²)

people added annually (2026)

Niger — share of population under 15

Christians globally

Natural sex ratio at birth (M:F)

Stateless people reported to UNHCR (end-2024)

of global population urban (2026)

Urban share around 1500

World working-age share — peak (~2015)

Finland, #1 of 147 (2023–2025)

Living languages worldwide

World population at start of agriculture (~10,000 BC)

Tokyo urban agglomeration

Food & Agriculture

Of world workers in agriculture (2023)

Total annual support to agriculture (54 countries, 2021-23)

Global coffee market value (retail)

Earliest crop domestication (Fertile Crescent)

Global dairy production 2024

Global fertilizer use 2023 (NPK)

Global per-capita fish consumption per year

Global fish production (2024)

Countries heavily reliant on food imports (rough count)

Annual food lost or wasted globally

FAO Food Price Index peak March 2022

global maize yield (2020)

FAO Food Price Index (Sept 2026)

total cereal production globally (2024)

Annual global grain trade

people undernourished globally in 2025 (7.8%)

Habitable land worldwide

people in water-stressed countries

Global GMO crop area (2025)

World area equipped for irrigation (~2020)

Chickens kept worldwide (2024)

World meat production (2024)

Certified organic agricultural land

Global palm oil production 2024

Global pesticide use 2023 (active ingredient)

World production 2026/27 (tonnes, raw value)

Indians who don't eat meat (estimate)

Technology

5G subscriptions worldwide (end 2025)

Telephone — invention to 50% US households

Consumer spend on apps, 2025 (Sensor Tower)

Median global fixed broadband download speed

Global public cloud spend (2025, Gartner forecast)

Transistors in Intel 4004 (1971)

Annual Bitcoin mining electricity use

Reported ransomware payments (2025)

Global data-center electricity demand (2024)

Global e-commerce sales (2024)

Global electric car sales 2025 (IEA)

Global e-waste generated 2022 (latest monitor)

Global game revenue 2025 (Newzoo)

ChatGPT weekly active users

people still offline (about 27%)

internet users, 2025 (about 73%)

mobile phone users (70.1%), an upper bound for smartphone users

social media user identities (68.7%)

robots operational worldwide (2025)

Myanmar shutdowns in 2025, the most of any country

Estimated annual global IP traffic 2024

Mobile cellular subscriptions worldwide

Patent applications worldwide (2024)

IBM Condor processor qubit count

Active satellites in orbit (2026)

Global semiconductor revenue (2026 WSTS forecast)

Facebook monthly active users

Falcon 9 list price to LEO

Netflix paid subscribers (end 2024, last reported)

Active & planned cable systems (2026)

Wearable devices in use worldwide