There are several ways to measure how rich a country is. GDP per capita. Household income. Household wealth. The percentage of the population that lives above a certain income level. The Economist has ...
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15 countries with the largest and richest oil reserves
For over a century, the world has run on oil, and out of everywhere in the world, these are the countries sitting on the ...
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Where in the world are wealth and income most unequal?
In 2025, the average wealth of people in North America and Oceania, which the report has grouped together, stood at 338 ...
SINGAPORE: Singapore has become this year’s world’s richest country, based on gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, ...
LONDON, Nov. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --The Economist has launched The World Ahead, the annual special year-end issue from The Economist that examines important themes, trends and events that will shape ...
Government debt is one of humanity’s great inventions. It allows societies to store wealth, fight crises and build for the future. After Britain’s superior access to credit helped it defeat Napoleon ...
Just about everywhere you look in the rich world, government finances are in ruins. France, as its debt mounts, is getting through prime ministers faster than Versailles went through wigs; on October ...
It’s rare for anyone—let alone a country—to know, with near absolute certainty, that they’re about to get really rich. But the tiny South American nation of Suriname is on the verge of doing just that ...
New research by Oxfam and CARE Climate Justice Center, published today, finds developing countries are now paying more back to wealthy nations for climate finance loans than they receive- for every 5 ...
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