WORLD PULSE
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World Pulse · dashboard

The world, indicator by indicator

21 indicators · 217 countries · 156,366 observations. Each indicator is read at the most recent year that still has near-complete coverage. Neither rule works alone: child stunting's newest year has six reporters, and internet use is best covered in 1990, when nearly every country reported it as zero.

GDP per capita (current US$)

read at 2025 · 1 year old

Gross domestic product divided by midyear population, in current US dollars.

World median

7,882current US$

Countries reporting

186/ 217

Observations, all years

11.8k

The median is computed across the 186 countries reporting in 2025 — arithmetic over real values, not a published figure. Higher is better for this indicator.

How the world is spread · 2025

73 countries between 234 and 5,484 current US$34 countries between 5,484 and 10,735 current US$16 countries between 10,735 and 15,986 current US$10 countries between 15,986 and 21,236 current US$6 countries between 21,236 and 26,487 current US$6 countries between 26,487 and 31,738 current US$10 countries between 31,738 and 36,988 current US$4 countries between 36,988 and 42,239 current US$2 countries between 42,239 and 47,490 current US$3 countries between 47,490 and 52,740 current US$5 countries between 52,740 and 57,991 current US$5 countries between 57,991 and 63,242 current US$1 country between 63,242 and 68,492 current US$2 countries between 68,492 and 73,743 current US$2 countries between 73,743 and 78,994 current US$2 countries between 89,495 and 94,746 current US$2 countries between 94,746 and 99,996 current US$1 country between 110,498 and 115,748 current US$1 country between 131,500 and 136,751 current US$1 country between 142,002 and 147,252 current US$MEDIAN234147,252
186 countries reporting · each bar is a count of countries, not a value · Pakistan 1,596 current US$

How much of the world was measured

ALL 2171960: 111 of 217 countries reported1961: 113 of 217 countries reported1962: 115 of 217 countries reported1963: 115 of 217 countries reported1964: 115 of 217 countries reported1965: 121 of 217 countries reported1966: 122 of 217 countries reported1967: 125 of 217 countries reported1968: 126 of 217 countries reported1969: 126 of 217 countries reported1970: 146 of 217 countries reported1971: 147 of 217 countries reported1972: 147 of 217 countries reported1973: 147 of 217 countries reported1974: 147 of 217 countries reported1975: 150 of 217 countries reported1976: 150 of 217 countries reported1977: 153 of 217 countries reported1978: 152 of 217 countries reported1979: 153 of 217 countries reported1980: 163 of 217 countries reported1981: 163 of 217 countries reported1982: 164 of 217 countries reported1983: 164 of 217 countries reported1984: 166 of 217 countries reported1985: 168 of 217 countries reported1986: 168 of 217 countries reported1987: 174 of 217 countries reported1988: 176 of 217 countries reported1989: 176 of 217 countries reported1990: 192 of 217 countries reported1991: 193 of 217 countries reported1992: 194 of 217 countries reported1993: 195 of 217 countries reported1994: 196 of 217 countries reported1995: 199 of 217 countries reported1996: 199 of 217 countries reported1997: 201 of 217 countries reported1998: 202 of 217 countries reported1999: 202 of 217 countries reported2000: 204 of 217 countries reported2001: 205 of 217 countries reported2002: 209 of 217 countries reported2003: 209 of 217 countries reported2004: 209 of 217 countries reported2005: 209 of 217 countries reported2006: 210 of 217 countries reported2007: 210 of 217 countries reported2008: 211 of 217 countries reported2009: 213 of 217 countries reported2010: 213 of 217 countries reported2011: 214 of 217 countries reported2012: 212 of 217 countries reported2013: 212 of 217 countries reported2014: 213 of 217 countries reported2015: 212 of 217 countries reported2016: 211 of 217 countries reported2017: 211 of 217 countries reported2018: 211 of 217 countries reported2019: 211 of 217 countries reported2020: 210 of 217 countries reported2021: 210 of 217 countries reported2022: 209 of 217 countries reported2023: 204 of 217 countries reported2024: 200 of 217 countries reported2025: 186 of 217 countries reported19602025
Best year 2011 with 214 of 217 · most recent 2025 with 186. A short bar means the world did not measure, not that the value fell.

Highest · 2025

Luxembourg147,252
Ireland131,592
Switzerland114,769
Singapore98,814
Iceland98,323
Norway94,594
United States90,027
Denmark76,970

Lowest · 2025

Burundi234
Central African Republic556
Madagascar599
Mozambique627
Somalia, Fed. Rep.661
Malawi672
Niger775
Congo, Dem. Rep.807

Read with care

  • · Current US$ — moves with the exchange rate as well as with output, so a currency devaluation alone can cut this figure sharply.
  • · An average: it says nothing about how income is distributed.

What we can actually see

Coverage is wildly uneven, and that unevenness is a finding rather than a footnote. Life expectancy is near-universal; the survey-based indicators are not. Sorted by how much of the world reports at all.

IndicatorCountriesYearsRead atObservations
Life expectancy217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,071
Fertility rate217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,073
Population217 / 2171960–20252025 (217)14,292
Electricity access216 / 2171990–20242024 (215)6,747
GDP per capita214 / 2171960–20252025 (186)11,764
Internet use213 / 2171990–20252024 (182)6,224
Primary enrolment209 / 2171970–20252023 (166)7,495
GDP per capita (PPP)203 / 2171990–20252025 (185)7,020
Education spending203 / 2171970–20252022 (164)5,124
CO₂ per person203 / 2171970–20242024 (203)11,165
Under-5 mortality196 / 2171960–20242024 (196)11,861
Maternal mortality194 / 2171985–20232023 (194)7,566
Inflation193 / 2171960–20252025 (165)9,136
Health spending193 / 2172000–20242023 (192)4,562
Unemployment187 / 2171991–20252025 (182)6,531
Extreme poverty171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Income inequality (Gini)171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Adult literacy170 / 2171970–20242022 (45)1,121
Military spending164 / 2171960–20242024 (147)7,909
Child stunting163 / 2171983–20242018 (48)1,129
Safe drinking water151 / 2172000–20242024 (148)3,716

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Nothing here is interpolated — where a country never reported, it is absent rather than estimated. Browse every country →