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Economics
18 visual stories
Charted: Days Not Worked per 1,000 — Which OECD Countries Still Lose Material Time to Strikes?
ILOSTAT puts Canada at 376 days not worked per 1,000 employees in 2023 and Finland at 368 in 2022 — while Sweden sits near zero. The post-2022 inflation bump was real in several countries; the UK’s 2024 cool-down shows it was not permanent everywhere.
Aug 27, 2026
Charted: Social Rental Housing Still Tops 20% of Dwellings in Only Three OECD Countries
OECD PH4.2 puts social rental dwellings at ~7.1% of the OECD housing stock on average. The Netherlands (34%), Austria (24%), and Denmark (21%) still clear 20% — while 18 of 25 countries with a decade pair saw the relative stock shrink.
Aug 26, 2026
Charted: The US Authorized 0.94 Housing Units per Net New Household in 2024
Census BPS permits lagged HVS household growth again in 2024. San Francisco’s sample ratio sits near 0.42; several Sun Belt metros clear 1.0 — but the national stock still needs replacement on top of net demand.
Aug 24, 2026
Charted: Daycare CPI Rose 21% After 2019 — Prime-Age Women’s LFP Did Not Stall
BLS day-care & preschool prices climbed about 21% from 2019 to 2024 and kept printing ~5% YoY after headline inflation cooled. Women 25–54 LFP rose to 77.9%. Mothers with children under 6 recovered from the pandemic dip, then edged down 68.9% → 68.3% as care prices accelerated.
Aug 24, 2026
Charted: Manufacturing Led 2024 Idle Days at 7.7% Density — Utilities at 17.8% Logged Zero
BLS major-work-stoppage idle days do not simply track where union coverage is already high. In 2024, manufacturing posted 1.32M idle days at 7.7% membership while utilities — the densest large private industry at 17.8% — had no major-idle table entry.
Aug 23, 2026
Charted: OECD Net Childcare Costs vs Fertility — The Scatter Is a Cloud, Not a Slope
The family-policy slogan says cheaper childcare means more babies. Across 33 countries, dual-earner net childcare runs near 13% of average wage while the correlation with TFR is a soft r = 0.24 — and the cheapest-care countries average lower fertility than the most expensive ones.
Aug 23, 2026
Q3 Geographic Split: Asia Still ~54% of Growth — Q2 Softness Trims Sensitivity to ~51%
Q3 geography lens on growth, trade and prices: Asia’s base growth contribution stays ~54% and merchandise trade-volume gains 71%, but Q2 hard-data sensitivity softens Asia’s growth share to ~51% as China prints 4.3% YoY — while stock–growth mismatch and elevated CPI burden still disagree about where risk sits.
Aug 22, 2026
Geographic Split: Asia Owns ~54% of World Growth & 71% of Trade Gains
Geography lens on growth, trade and prices: Asia delivers ~54% of world PPP growth contribution and 71% of merchandise trade-volume gains, while North America still holds ~18% of PPP stock with only ~10% of growth — and elevated CPI burden stays thick in the US and EM, not in China.
Aug 21, 2026
Aug Concentration: Growth Top-1 Still ~32% / Asia Trade 71% — CPI Cools, Share Architecture Flat
August 202608 concentration lens on growth, trade and prices: China remains ~32% of world PPP growth (top-3 ~55%); Asia still owns 71% of merchandise trade-volume gains; PPP stock top-3 ~42% and export top-3 ~29% stay carried; US CPI 3.4% YoY (−0.1 pp) and PCE 3.7% cool while elevated-CPI GDP share holds ~38% and CPB June / GDP second estimate stay pending.
Aug 21, 2026
Q3 Concentration: Growth Top-1 Still ~32% China — Q2 Sensitivity Only Clips It to ~29%
Q3 concentration vintage on growth, trade and prices: China remains ~32% of world PPP growth (top-3 ~55%); a Q2 hard-data sensitivity only eases top-1 to ~29%; Asia still owns 71% of merchandise trade-volume gains; PPP stock top-3 stays ~42% while Aug CPI shows the growth leader near zero inflation.
Aug 21, 2026
Update: US CPI Cools to 3.4% YoY — June PCE 3.7% as July IMF Path Comes Back into View
August monthly vintage versus the Q3 hard-data check: BLS July CPI slips −0.1 pp to 3.4% YoY and BEA June PCE YoY drops −0.4 pp to 3.7%, while euro-area HICP ticks up to 2.9%. Trade and GDP meters stay held pending 25–26 Aug prints.
Aug 21, 2026
Concentration: China Takes ~32% of World PPP Growth — Asia Alone Is 71% of Merch Trade-Volume Gains
Concentration lens on growth, trade & prices: China alone is ~32% of world PPP growth (top-3 ~55%), Asia contributes 71% of 2025 merchandise trade-volume growth, PPP stock top-1 is ~19%, and goods-export top-3 clears ~29% — while China’s CPI sits near zero.
Aug 21, 2026
Update: CPB May Trade +1.0% MoM — US Q2 GDP Slows to 1.5% as PCE Hits 5.1%
First hard-data check of the July IMF vintage: CPB merchandise volumes rebound a second month after March’s −2.1% war shock, while BEA prints US Q2 growth at 1.5% SAAR and PCE at 5.1% — trade firmer, growth softer, prices hotter.
Aug 20, 2026
Update: World Trade 2026 Revised +0.7 pp to 3.5% — GDP Slips to 3.0%, CPI to 4.7%
IMF July Update vs our April WEO research print: goods+services trade volume jumps from 2.8% to 3.5% for 2026, world GDP ticks down −0.1 pp to 3.0%, and headline CPI rises +0.3 pp to 4.7% as oil hits $89/bbl.
Aug 20, 2026
Charted: Trade Outgrew GDP in 2025 — Then Both Slow Into a War Shadow
WTO: merchandise trade volume +4.6% in 2025, Asia contributing 71% of the lift. IMF: world GDP 3.4% → 3.1% in 2026 while CPI ticks up to 4.4%. The soft-landing triangle of growth, trade, and prices is tilting.
Jul 31, 2026
Charted: 18 Economies That Grew in 2025 While Prices Fell
Real GDP expanded and CPI YoY went negative — from China and Taiwan to Ireland and Hong Kong. 18 sourced economy records challenge the idea that growth requires inflation.
Jul 10, 2026
Mapped: How Every Major Economy Powers Its Grid in 2024
Coal still supplies a third of world electricity — but France runs on nuclear, Brazil on hydro, and the US on gas. Compare generation mix across 21 economies totaling 30.9 PWh.
Jul 10, 2026
Charted: 30 Years of GDP — China, the US & India
From $738B to $20T: how China closed the gap with America, why India is rising, and what per-capita income reveals about the real story.
Jul 5, 2026