How the data works

allfigures shows public datasets in one way: a map, a ranking and a table, with a page for every country. This page explains where the numbers come from and what the marks next to them mean.

Periods and refresh

Figures refresh once a day. Every value keeps the period its publisher gave it: a day, a month, a quarter or a half-year. Countries do not all report on the same date, so a table can mix periods.

A dagger (†) marks a value older than the period most countries share. A value that is not published is shown as “No data” and hatched on the map. It is never shown as zero.

Units and conversions

Use the units button in the header to choose a currency, litres or gallons, kWh or MWh, and how numbers are written. The choice is stored in a cookie on this device.

Litres to gallons and MWh to kWh are exact. Money in another currency is an estimate: it is marked ≈ and the page names the reference rate and its date. Only today's rate is available, so price histories stay in the currency they were published in.

Percentages, indexes and purchasing power standards (PPS) are never converted. PPS is an artificial unit that already removes price differences between countries. Some sources convert national amounts to euro before publishing; converting them back may not match the official national figure.

Where the figures come from

57 public bodies

Each dataset page ends with the bodies behind its figures, and each country page names that country's own source. The full list:

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