The Economic Atlas
Every source, every update cadence, every conversion, and every known limitation, in one place, rather than scattered across 32 individual pages.
This site deliberately shows official statistics with no interpretation, no forecasts, and no AI-generated commentary on what the numbers mean. That's not an oversight, it's the founding constraint the whole site is built around. If you want someone's opinion on what a number means, that's everywhere else on the internet; this is built to be the place that just shows you the number, sourced precisely, and lets you draw your own conclusion.
Every figure on this site traces back to an official national statistics agency or a recognised international body, never a news article, a blog, or a secondary aggregator. The primary sources in use across the site: national statistical offices (including ONS, MoSPI, and equivalents for every country covered), FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), OECD, World Bank, Eurostat, IMF (IFS and WEO), BIS, UN Comtrade, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank. Every individual metric on every country page has its own ⓘ info button showing the exact agency and series code behind that specific number, this page describes the system as a whole; the per-metric ⓘ is the precise citation for any single figure.
Most series refresh hourly via an automated pipeline that queries each source directly. Trade-partner data (the country-to-country trade breakdowns) updates once daily rather than hourly, since the underlying UN Comtrade figures themselves don't change hour to hour, and hourly polling would have been needless load for no benefit. Not every series updates every hour regardless of cadence, most official statistics are only published monthly, quarterly, or annually in the first place, so what "hourly" actually means in practice is: this site checks hourly for whether a new official reading has been published, not that a new reading exists every hour.
Each series shows a small freshness indicator (green or orange) next to it. Green means the series is within its normal publication window for that source and frequency. Orange means it's gone significantly past that window, which usually means the source hasn't published its next release yet, but occasionally means the automated fetch for that specific series needs attention. Either way, orange is a genuine signal, not decoration.
The Dollarise toggle converts a country's own-currency figures into US dollars. Critically, this does not take today's exchange rate and apply it retroactively across history, each historical data point is converted at its own contemporaneous exchange rate, sourced from the same monthly FX history used throughout the site. A reading from 2015 is converted at 2015's rate, not today's. Where a currency's exchange-rate history doesn't extend back as far as the underlying economic data (for example, before a currency existed in its current form), the earliest available rate is used for anything before that point, and this is disclosed on the relevant chart rather than silently applied.
The Make It Real toggle adjusts nominal figures for inflation, so you're looking at real (inflation-adjusted) terms rather than raw current-price numbers. For countries experiencing very high inflation (Turkey and Argentina, currently), combining Make It Real with Dollarise at the same time can produce a result that's technically calculated correctly but economically difficult to interpret meaningfully, both pages carry an explicit warning when both toggles are active together for exactly this reason.
This site doesn't claim complete coverage for every country on every metric. Where a genuine gap exists, a metric with no reliable live source yet, or a country still on a fallback data source rather than a directly-fetched one, that's disclosed on the page itself (as a "known gap" note or an illustrative-fallback label), not hidden. Two specific, current examples: several countries' trade balance, exports and imports figures fall back to an OECD-mirrored series that was discontinued by its publisher in April 2023, used only when the preferred live feed is unavailable; and any metric using a derived calculation (for example, a trade balance computed as exports minus imports rather than published directly as a single series) is labelled as derived rather than presented as if it came from one direct source.
Click the ⓘ next to any individual metric, on any country page, Compare, or your own Dashboard, for that number's exact source and any conversion caveats specific to it. If something looks wrong or you think a better source exists for a metric currently on a fallback, get in touch, most fixes to date have come from exactly that kind of report.