World Powers

The World Powers desk's data pages: Alliances & Blocs, Central Banks, Economies & Debt, Elections & Polls, Leaders & Policy, Nobel Prizes, Power Board…

  • Alliances & Blocs: NATO, the EU, G7, G20, BRICS, SCO, OPEC+ and other groupings: members, join dates, and their share of world output, population, military spending and oil then and now, with UN voting alignment. Blocs…
  • Central Banks: Policy rates, every decision since 1969, rate cycles, real rates, balance sheets, and who holds U.S. Treasuries. Rates set the cost of credit for governments, companies and households, and rate gaps…
  • Economies & Debt: Each economy's size, growth, inflation, jobs, government, household and company debt, industries and markets, from 1969 to the IMF's forecasts. Growth abroad sets demand for U.S. exports and…
  • Elections & Polls: Upcoming national elections, today's poll averages and every national result since 1969 for the U.S., its allies and partners, and Russia. A change of government can change tax, spending, trade and…
  • Leaders & Policy: Who has run each country since 1969, their party, what happened to the economy, debt, rates and markets on their watch, and how much policy uncertainty and geopolitical risk are moving markets.…
  • Nobel Prizes: Each country's Nobel laureates from the Nobel Foundation's record, counted by where the laureate was born and where their university or institute was at the award. The affiliation count shows where…
  • Power Board: One row per country for the United States, its allies and partners, China and Russia: leader, economy, debt, central bank, AI standing and alignment, and each camp's share of the world. The camp a…
  • Resources & Energy: Who produces and who depends on oil, gas, coal, electricity, critical minerals and food, from 1969 to the latest year. Concentrated supply decides who is hurt when a producer cuts output or restricts…
  • United Nations: The Security Council's resolutions, vetoes and votes, the General Assembly's resolutions and recorded votes, and UN peacekeeping (contributors, missions, fatalities), from the UN's own records.…
  • World Log: Every dated event the World Powers desk records, newest first: central-bank rate moves, new leaders, election results, countries joining or leaving blocs, and changes of poll leader. These are the…

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