World and multi-country charts

Charts that cover the whole world or many countries at once. (6 charts)

Gold, Currencies & Crises

Gold reserves, currency crashes and financial crises around the world.

Percent of countries in the sample (up to 70 countries)

Higher = more countries in crisis at the same time

Source: Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, Global Crises Data (Harvard Business School)

Number of countries (out of 70)

Higher = more countries with a banking crisis in that year

Source: Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, Global Crises Data (Harvard Business School)

The price of oil and how much energy the world uses.

Kilowatt-hours per person per year

Each colored band is one source; the top edge is the total

Source: Our World in Data, based on Vaclav Smil and the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy (CC BY)

What Americans eat, and the farms that feed them.

Million metric tons per year

Each colored band is one crop; the top edge is the total

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), via Our World in Data (CC BY)

Marriage, children and the lives of young Americans.

Average number of children per woman

About 2.1 = the level at which a population replaces itself

Source: United Nations World Population Prospects via Our World in Data (CC BY)

Health, prisons, immigration, education and even language.

HHI concentration index

Higher = laureates come from fewer institutions

Source: Academic study, "Institutional concentration of Nobel laureates from 1950". Approximate values digitized from a published chart