Insights
What actually moves together, across 217 countries — the real first pass at the "hidden relationship" engine from the method. Built for the same four users the whole site is: a government sizing up policy trade-offs, a business scouting a market, a city planner, or a person deciding where to move — a starting point for what's worth digging into, not a finished answer.
What this is: a cross-sectional screen — do two indicators move together across countries right now. A hypothesis-generation step, not a forecast.
What this isn't (yet): not the lag-correlation / Granger causality method the site's actual predictions use — that needs historical time series per country, the next slice of this engine. Some pairs are correlated by definition (GDP and GNI per capita measure almost the same thing), not by discovery.
What's still missing: the "unusual" alternative data (satellite night-lights, shipping traffic, arms trade, conflict data) from the original vision needs paid/complex API access this build doesn't have yet. Everything below is public World Bank data, plus one AllForecasts trend projection.
Strongest cross-category relationships
Population size and defence spending move together — larger countries generally field larger militaries in absolute terms.
Literacy and health outcomes reinforce each other — useful for governments and NGOs deciding where a health campaign will land hardest.
Population size tracks with this economic measure — relevant to sovereign risk assessment and to a business sizing up a market.
Literacy and health outcomes reinforce each other — useful for governments and NGOs deciding where a health campaign will land hardest.
Richer countries tend to have better health outcomes here — a quick gut-check for anyone comparing where to live, invest, or expand.
Military spending scales with economic capacity — a benchmark for governments comparing defence budgets to peers, and a signal for defence-adjacent businesses.
Richer countries tend to have better health outcomes here — a quick gut-check for anyone comparing where to live, invest, or expand.
Literacy and health outcomes reinforce each other — useful for governments and NGOs deciding where a health campaign will land hardest.
Richer countries tend to have better health outcomes here — a quick gut-check for anyone comparing where to live, invest, or expand.
Richer countries tend to have better health outcomes here — a quick gut-check for anyone comparing where to live, invest, or expand.
Richer countries tend to have better health outcomes here — a quick gut-check for anyone comparing where to live, invest, or expand.
Richer countries tend to have better health outcomes here — a quick gut-check for anyone comparing where to live, invest, or expand.
171 pairs screened in total (109 cross-category). r ranges from -1 (perfectly opposite) to +1 (perfectly together); anything under ~0.3 in either direction is weak.