Econography publishes long-run economic history as public reference material: openly sourced, consistently measured, and free to read and reuse. Two works so far — a year-by-year record of twenty-four economies since 1946, and an atlas of what every country on earth takes from the ground.
Twenty-four national economies, every year from 1946 to 2026 rated on one 1–10 scale — 1,924 year entries in all. Not by growth rates, but by how each year was actually lived by the median household: wages and prices, work and savings, what the era itself believed, and how the country fared against the world. One method, one scale, one constant 2026 dollar, applied identically so the records can be read against each other.
Deep red a catastrophe, green a good year broadly felt; 1946 at the left to 2026 at the right. Every country name links to its volume.
The ladder and the engine disagree, which is the series' central finding: United States tops the lived average at 5.26, while Turkey — 21th of 24 on how its years were actually lived — multiplied income per head by more than Germany or Italy managed, and did it through six coups and a currency that shed all but one fifteen-millionth of its value. The exception is Argentina, where after the 2026 audit the two finally agree: 23rd on experience, and dead last on trajectory.
Every sovereign state on earth set against the 170 primary resources the world economy draws from the ground, the field, the forest and the sea — 11,277 country–resource entries, each with a value, a volume, a share of world supply, and a line on how and where production actually happens.
The map of wealth is not the map of power. Crude oil is a $2.25 trillion market produced by 99 countries. Gallium is a $500 million market produced by three, and without it there is no radar, no LED and no high-frequency chip.
Econography is a non-profit educational publisher. Everything here is free to read and free to reuse with attribution, every figure traced to a named public source — FAOSTAT, the USGS, the IMF, the World Bank, national statistical offices — with the uncertainties stated rather than hidden.