Ideas for students and educators

The website can be used by college, Masters and high school students with some or no economics background. In fact, that is one of our objectives: to make knowledge of the global economy accessible to non-experts. Also, the website can be used in the U.S. and internationally which fits with our second objective: to make this knowledge available to anyone anywhere ... learn more

Indicators for more than 200 countries

We use data provided by the World Bank to show the main economic indicators of all countries. Each indicator is presented in comparison to several other countries and in terms of changes over time. We discuss the definitions of the various indicators and provide information about the ways in which one can interpret them. See for example, data for the U.S. economic indicators

Interactive tools to compare countries

Comparing countries is a fun and useful exercise. We used the information from the World Bank to create easy interactive tools for such comparison. You can compare many economic indicators across countries and track their changes over time. The comparisons are linked to the lectures in our guide to give you insight into the nature of each indicator. Make an international comparison.