Abundance · by country · source: World Bank Open Data

What the global average looks like, per country.

The objection that "global averages hide everything" is fair. So here is the same arithmetic, by country. Every cell is a World Bank indicator refreshed automatically. Click any country to see its specific abundance or deficit, narrated.

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30 countries
Country Population GDP/capita %poor %mil/GDP %health/GDP kWh/yr BB/100 life m³water/yr

Source for every cell: World Bank Open Data API · raw JSON at data/countries.json · fetch script at scripts/build_countries.py · license CC-BY-4.0. Year shown per indicator is the most recent World Bank publication; some indicators lag others by up to 2 years.

2 · Detail view

Click any row above to load the narrative for that country here.

3 · How to read this table

  • %poor is the World Bank's poverty headcount ratio at the upper-middle-income line ($6.85/day, 2017 PPP). It captures the broader "not yet comfortably out of poverty" population, not just extreme poverty.
  • %mil/GDP vs %health/GDP are the clearest single comparison for national priorities. Countries that spend more on health than on military are the rule, not the exception — but the ratio varies by an order of magnitude.
  • m³ water/yr is per-capita internal renewable freshwater. The Sahara is genuinely different from the Amazon.
  • kWh/yr is electric power consumption per capita. The Modern Energy Minimum (Energy for Growth Hub) for productive use is 1,000 kWh/year/person. Many countries on this list are still below it.
  • BB/100 is fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people. Mobile broadband (much higher in most countries) is not included here; it is a different indicator.

4 · Honest limits, per country

  • Country-level data has more gaps and lag than aggregate global data. Some cells will say not available when the World Bank has no recent observation. Honest blank beats guessed value.
  • World Bank publication dates vary by country and by indicator. Each cell shows its year on hover (and in the JSON).
  • Per-capita figures hide internal distribution. A country with high per-capita GDP can still have ~10% of its population below $6.85/day. That is the table's point, not a flaw.
  • Sovereign-wealth countries (Norway, Saudi Arabia, Iceland) have large state assets that GDP does not capture. The methodology section of the main page notes that GDP is not income.