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The core consumer class is growing at a third of its 2000s pace
8+ hour, 22+ min ago (472+ words) World Data Lab uses state-of-the-art data science methodologies to model and forecast consumer trends, category spending, demographic shifts, and cities. The core consumer class expanded by 4% to 6% a year through the 2000s, peaking at 6.2% in 2007 as China and India moved hundreds…...
Ranked: Water Supply vs. Use Per Person by Country - Voronoi
8+ hour, 22+ min ago (130+ words) Ranked: Water Supply vs. Use Per Person by Country Voronoi by Visual Capitalist Ranked: Water Supply vs. Use Per Person by Country - Iceland has the world’s highest renewable freshwater supply per person, at 15.7 million cubic feet annually, roughly 50 times the…...
India is attracting FDI. But where is the money actually going?
8+ hour, 23+ min ago (105+ words) Foreign investors have poured capital into India’s manufacturing ecosystem over the years but the flow isn’t evenly distributed. From computer software & hardware to automobiles, pharma, chemicals and infrastructure, the sectors receiving FDI reveal where global investors see India’s next big…...
Share of households with air conditioning in 2025
1+ week, 2+ day ago (520+ words) Many countries have been facing intense heat this summer, and with predictions of a strong El Niño on the way, next summer could be even hotter. This has ignited debate on the need for cooling methods and technologies — most prominently,…...
Top Foreign Holders of U.S. Debt
1+ week, 4+ day ago (223+ words) The U.S. national debt has surpassed $40 trillion, reaching a record level in August 2026. Against this backdrop, foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities stood at $9.29 trillion as of June 2026, with Japan, the UK, and China remaining the largest foreign holders even as exposure…...
How Inflation Has Eroded $100 Since 2019, by Country
1+ week, 6+ day ago (104+ words) Voronoi - The U.S. dollar has lost nearly 23% of its purchasing power since the end of 2019. - Switzerland has preserved the most purchasing power, losing less than 7% since 2019. - Türkiye has seen the steepest decline, losing nearly 90% of its purchasing power over the same…...
Top 30 Cities Most Visited by Digital Nomads
2+ week, 4+ day ago (275+ words) Voronoi Top 30 Cities Most Visited by Digital Nomads The Geography of Getting Away With It. Some 16,000 people responsible for nearly 424,000 trips have, in aggregate, drawn a rough map of where the world's laptop class actually goes. The picture that emerges…...
Ranked: U.S. States With the Widest Wage Gaps
2+ week, 6+ day ago (105+ words) Voronoi Ranked: U.S. States With the Widest Wage Gaps - California has the largest wage gap, with top earners making 173% more than the median worker. - Massachusetts records the highest wages for both top earners and median earners among all states. - The wage…...
Hyper-Globalization Fractures
3+ week, 2+ day ago (173+ words) Voronoi Four Decades of Global Trade Integration Reverses into Regional Blocs (1980–2026) For four decades (1980–2008), the global economy operated under a single overriding imperative: hyper-globalization. Driven by containerization, tariff reductions, and China's 2001 WTO accession, world trade as a share of global…...
U.S. Oil Independence Reborn
3+ week, 4+ day ago (212+ words) Voronoi U.S. Oil Independence Reborn Four Decades of Domestic Oil Decline Reverses into World #1 Energy Supremacy (1970–2026) From 1970 to 2008, the United States suffered a painful, 40-year decline in domestic energy production. After peaking at 9.64 million barrels per day (Mbpd) in 1970, American conventional…...