How tall people are, what they eat and drink, how happy they are, when they marry, and who holds power. Pick a topic, then a measure. Tap any country for its profile.
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Height is the average for adults born in 1996, from the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration's pooled measurement studies. National dishes are those listed by Wikipedia's National dish article, which notes that some large, diverse countries have no single national dish. Degree fields are the share of each country's tertiary graduates by broad field, from UNESCO; the leading field is shown where at least seven fields are reported. Bachelor's degrees: share of adults 25 and over, World Bank.
Happiness is the World Happiness Report's average answer to "rate your life from 0 to 10". Languages counts living languages Glottolog records in each country. Internet use: share of people online (World Bank). Alcohol: litres of pure alcohol per person aged 15+ a year, recorded and unrecorded (WHO). Coffee: food supply in kilograms per person a year (FAO food balances); Hong Kong is left out because re-exports inflate its figure. Hours worked: average annual hours per worker (Penn World Table via Our World in Data).
Not included: most popular car, video game and pet. The per-country car rankings are proprietary industry data, and no open country-by-country source exists for games or pets.
Sources: NCD-RisC via Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0); Wikipedia, National dish (CC BY-SA 4.0); UNESCO Institute for Statistics (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO); World Bank WDI (CC BY 4.0).
Age at first marriage or union is the singulate mean age at marriage (World Bank, latest year since 2005). Many surveys count cohabiting unions as well as formal marriages, which is why several Caribbean countries, where couples commonly live together before marrying, show young ages. Girls married before 18: share of women aged 20–24 who were first married or in a union before 18 (UNICEF via World Bank). Mothers' average age at birth covers all births (UN World Population Prospects via Our World in Data). Teen birth rate: births per 1,000 women aged 15–19 (World Bank).
Size of the largest group is the share of the population in the biggest ethnic group each country reports to the CIA World Factbook. Group names are each country's own census categories; they are not comparable across countries, so the map shows only how large the biggest group is, never which group it is.
Women in parliament: share of seats in the lower or single house (IPU via World Bank). Homicide rate: intentional homicides per 100,000 people (UNODC via World Bank). Death penalty: legal status, last execution and 2024 executions as compiled on Wikipedia from Amnesty International and national sources. LGBT+ legal rights: a legal-policy index covering criminalisation, recognition and protections (Velasco, via Our World in Data; latest year 2019). Freedom of expression: V-Dem's freedom of expression and alternative sources of information index, scaled 0–100.
Sources: World Bank WDI (CC BY 4.0); UN WPP via Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0); CIA World Factbook (public domain); Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); V-Dem v16 (CC BY-SA 4.0).