Compare the world
Compare official statistics on poverty, inequality, the economy, unemployment, prices, drinking water and sanitation, and education (primary completion for children and tertiary enrolment including adults), country by country. Values are retrieved automatically from World Bank public data; this site does not estimate values or fill in missing countries.
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How to read the figures
- The year differs by country. Each country shows its most recent year with a value (see the year column). Treat comparisons between distant years with caution.
- Countries without a value are shown as “No data”. We never fill gaps with zeros or averages.
- The figures describe a country as a whole on average; they do not describe each person's life or rank countries as good or bad.
- Statistics may be revised. Check the source page of each indicator for the latest values and definitions.
To learn what each country's welfare system provides
The International Social Security Association (ISSA) publishes Country profiles summarising each country's statutory social security programmes, such as old age, sickness and maternity, work injury, unemployment and family support (180+ countries and territories, updated region by region roughly every two years). It is published by a separate organisation and has not been checked or endorsed by this site. For the latest rules, see the official information of each country's government.
Sources and licence
World Bank public data (World Development Indicators, Poverty and Inequality Platform and others), used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Unemployment rates are International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates; drinking water and sanitation are estimates by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP); inflation comes from the International Monetary Fund (IMF); and education figures come from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, all as published by the World Bank. We have not found official statistics that compare drinking water for travellers or the prices of individual items (such as bottled water) across countries, so they are not shown. Before travelling, check official travel safety and health information, for example the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan overseas safety site and the Quarantine Information Office (FORTH) (both in Japanese), or your own government's travel advice. Indicator names and descriptions are summarised by this site; the values themselves are not changed. Neither the World Bank nor the ILO endorses this site.