🇷🇺🇨🇳 The Iran war made China buy much more Russian oil than before. China and Russia share a long border and pipelines are already in place. In fact, China now has only one reliable oil supplier that can deliver…


🇷🇺🇨🇳 The Iran war made China buy much more Russian oil than before. China and Russia share a long border and pipelines are already in place. In fact, China now has only one reliable oil supplier that can deliver…
Countries by GDP: 1980 vs 2026 1980 1. United States - $2.86T 2. Japan - $1.13T 3. Germany - $953.77B 4. France - $694.53B 5. United Kingdom - $564.95B 6. Italy - $478.36B 7. Canada - $274.78B 8. Brazil - $237.39B 9.…
Global GDP rankings 1980 vs 2026
The survey number is the worst it has ever posted, lower than 2008 and lower than the pandemic stretch. People answering the polls say they are scared about their own money situation. And the market? Still sitting there…
David Lin on consumer sentiment and Hormuz
The question a Federal Reserve president is raising about the AI ecosystem possibly becoming "too big to fail" points to a different phase for the industry. What makes it complicated is how tangled the whole thing has…
Nigeria puts 0.3% of its GDP toward education, and that number sits at the very bottom of a 39-country ranking. Indonesia is next at 1.3%, then Thailand at 2.5%, Iran at 2.8%, and Vietnam at 2.9%. Japan comes in at 3.3%,…
Countries by Education Spending (% of GDP)
Guinea's 2023 bauxite haul came out at 123,067,415 tonnes, and that single number basically sets the tone for the whole table. World Mining Data 2025 is where the country-level figures live, and everything below is…
Tin is one of those metals that never trends but always delivers. It's classified as a strategically important industrial metal, and it ends up in electronics solder, tinplate, protective coatings, chemicals, and various…
Largest Zinc-Producing Countries in the World — 2023 Zinc is one of the world’s major industrial metals, widely used for galvanizing steel, producing alloys such as brass, die-casting, batteries and other industrial…
Largest Platinum-Producing Countries in the World — 2023 Platinum is a high-value platinum-group metal (PGM) used in catalytic converters, chemical processing, electronics, laboratory equipment, jewelry and other…
World Mining Data 2025 has the receipts on contained lead (Pb) mine production for 2023, measured in metric tonnes, and the top of the table is not close. China put out 1,960,000 tonnes, which the dataset pegs at 41.66%…
The 2023 copper picture, per World Mining Data 2025: twenty countries moved almost everything, about 94.68% of what the dataset logged, and Chile alone posted 5,250,400 tonnes. That's the top of the table by a wide…
Largest Diamond-Producing Countries in the World — 2023 Diamonds are among the world’s most valuable mineral commodities, with production concentrated in a relatively small number of countries. For this ranking, rough…
Twenty entries, and the top one is basically playing a different sport. World Mining Data 2025 lays out the biggest nickel-producing countries and jurisdictions from 2023, and Indonesia's line reads 2,028,800 tonnes.…