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Twenty-four national economies, each rated year by year from 1946 (or from independence or founding) to 2026 — 1,924 year entries. The rating is not a growth rate. It asks how the year was lived by the median household, through five lenses: the lived experience of wages, prices, work and savings; what the era itself believed at the time; how the country fared against the world; the direction of travel; and the statistics as a cross-check. On that scale 1 is catastrophe, 3 clearly bad, 5 muddling through, 7 good and broadly felt, 8 and above a boom with breadth, and 10 is reserved.
Every figure is in constant 2026 dollars, each volume chained to the IMF's 2025 nominal anchor for that country. That makes levels comparable across eighty years and across countries, and it is why the series does not use market exchange rates, which measure the currency as much as the economy.
Two volumes stop early by the same convention — this series does not rate years whose statistics have stopped: Russia/USSR closes at 2021 and Iran at 2025. Where official statistics were falsified, the volumes say so and use independent estimates instead; the Argentine and Chinese volumes are the type specimens, and both explain in their opening sections which years to distrust and what was substituted.
Every sovereign state set against 170 primary resources, 11,277 country–resource entries. Crops, livestock, forestry and fisheries are built from FAOSTAT and FAO FishStat physical production, valued at consistent world unit prices. Energy, metals, industrial minerals and specialty ores come from the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries, BGS World Mineral Production, the Energy Institute Statistical Review, the EIA, the World Nuclear Association and the Kimberley Process. Each resource's country figures sum exactly to its published global value, so the atlas reconciles to $10.93 trillion.
About 17% of entries are modelled rather than measured and are marked EST throughout. Construction aggregate, dimension stone, non-wood forest products, coloured gemstones and several mineral tails have no country-level census anywhere on earth; they are included because leaving them out would misrepresent the shape of a country's primary sector, and flagged because a band is not a measurement.
Both works have been through adversarial audit passes, and both carry the results in public. The atlas corrected 49 implausible national submissions against independent sources — phantom statistical imputations, mislabelled crops, placeholder mineral figures — and every corrected entry says what was wrong with the original. The series carries an audit record and per-volume errata. Reference works are not improved by hiding their corrections.
Ratings move when the audits say they should, and the moves are shown rather than quietly applied: each volume closes with its own errata, dated and stating what was wrong. The largest revision so far came in August 2026, when Brazil and Argentina were re-scored year by year and both fell several places; their old figures, and the reasoning that replaced them, are in the audit record.
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Errors are expected in work at this scale, and reports are genuinely welcome — particularly from people with local knowledge of a country's statistics, which is exactly the kind of error that survives desk research. Corrections are made in place and recorded rather than quietly overwritten.
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