top countries

About

Top Countries puts published country ratings on one equal-area map and one globe, each with its publisher, year, method and licence named. Made for high school. No account, no tracking.

It is the third of three sites sharing one design and one population dataset: the Explorer shows today's figures, the Playback plays them from 1950 to 2100, and this site shows where each country stands on everything else.

How to read a rating

The map and the globe

The map is Equal Earth, which keeps every country at its true area — Mercator makes Greenland look larger than Africa, which is fourteen times bigger. The globe shows where a colour sits on the sphere; the map shows how much of the world it covers. Both draw the same outlines and can be swapped for any other model without touching the data.

Colour is position in the ranking — the top tenth brightest, then to a quarter, a half, three quarters, nine tenths, and the bottom tenth — and the legend prints each band's values. No figure is a neutral grey, never a low score. The outlines cover 173 of the 237 countries and areas; the other 64 are sub-pixel and are listed, never merged or drawn as zero.

The facts in every row

Population at this moment, interpolated between the UN's July-1 estimates, its change over the next year, births and deaths — and, behind a today tag, three fixed readings: male and female population, GDP and capital. All of it comes unchanged from the playback site's dataset at a pinned commit.

Restricted-licence ratings

ratings come from publishers who allow no reuse, or no commercial reuse. They are packaged but off by default; the switch turns them on everywhere on this site, for this browser.

Every rating, as packaged

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Sources and licences

Each dataset is stored in this site's repository as downloaded, with URL, date and checksum. Publishers own their data; what is original here — text, code, design — is © 2026 Alex (alxevt.com). Facts are free: a rank, a population or a GDP can be used by anyone.

PublisherLicenceRatings

Population and reference facts: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (CC BY 3.0 IGO); World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Outlines: Natural Earth 1:110m via world-atlas (public domain / ISC). Flags: flag-icons (MIT). Projection: Šavrič, Patterson & Jenny, The Equal Earth map projection, 2018.

To cite a figure, cite the publisher: "Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2024, via top-countries.alxevt.com, retrieved [date]."

Who makes this

Agentic Business Studio, an ALXEVT company (ABS COMPANY INC.), which also runs the two population sites. Questions and corrections: alxevt.com.