BEGIN
Every dot is a country. They will stay on this screen for the whole of the first act. Nothing is added, nothing is taken away.
Only the question changes. Keep scrolling and watch the same set answer a different one each time.
QUESTION ONE
Now each dot is sized by population, packed largest first. Two of them take a corner of the screen to themselves.
India and China hold more people between them than the 150 smallest countries combined. Vatican City is the dot you can barely find: 496 people.
Explore population and demographicsQUESTION TWO
Same dots, lifted by the share of their people using the internet. Height is connectivity, and brightness follows it.
The top of the field is crowded. The bottom is not empty, and that is the part worth looking at.
Internet use and digital governmentQUESTION THREE
Health, schooling and income folded into a single index. The dots spread along it.
Then change what you mean by progress. Nothing about these countries changes between these three views. They overtake each other anyway.
Human development and educationQUESTION FOUR
Sized by total output, two economies swallow the screen and everything else becomes a fleck.
Divide that output by the people it has to go round and the picture inverts. Small countries swell, the giants shrink. Same economies, different question.
Economy data, country by countryFour questions in, and every one of them flattened a country into a single value. None of them told you what the money looks like, what the ground does, which side the traffic drives on or when the country stops for the day. Those things are not on any axis.
CROSSING
Money, language, script, the direction your eye travels. All of it can change in the time it takes to walk through an airport.
Currencies and languages, country by country.
PLACE & PHYSICAL SETTING
Alps
Terrain drawings are expressive illustrations, not maps, elevations or land-area comparisons. Descriptions come from the supplied geography records.
Explore this country's physical setting ↗ARRIVAL & EVERYDAY DETAILS
And then, you arrive. A big picture becomes a few very practical questions.
RHYTHM
Every day of 2026, shaded by how many of the 195 countries stop for it. 1 January is the darkest square on the page: 178 countries take the same day off. Hover any day to see who.
THE POINT
Everything above spread one measure across the world. Turn it around.
Pick a country to explore its data, or choose a subject to compare countries.