About & sources
What this site is
Nations in Data compares countries using public statistics, drawn as interactive 3D charts. Every figure comes from a named source, and estimates are marked as such.
Sources for the economic freedom chart
- Economic freedom
- Heritage Foundation, Index of Economic Freedom 2026: each country’s score (0–100) and its rank among 176 countries.
- Left–right orientation
- The political position of the governing party according to Wikidata (November 2026), on a seven-step scale from far left to far right.
- Public spending
- International Monetary Fund, 2025: government spending as a share of GDP.
- GDP per capita
- International Monetary Fund, 2025: GDP per capita at purchasing power parity (PPP), in US dollars.
How the chart is built
- Depth is economic freedom, laid out either by rank or by score. Left to right is the orientation of the government. Height is GDP per capita.
- Where Wikidata gives no position for the governing party, the orientation is assigned by hand using the same criterion and marked with ≈. Governments with no clear ideology are placed at the center.
- Within each left–right band, a country sits further left the higher its public spending is compared with the rest of the world.
- Values marked ≈ are estimates: for a few countries the IMF publishes no recent GDP figure.
- The USSR appears as a historical reference (c. 1985) with estimated figures, and is not counted in the rankings.
- Columns that would sit on top of each other are nudged apart slightly so that each one can be seen and selected.
Privacy
This is a static site. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, has no forms or accounts, and loads nothing from third-party servers: the 3D engine, Three.js (MIT license), is served from this site.