World atlas

Every country’s company data on one map.

See where a company can be checked for free, where it costs money and where only someone local can get it — and how the world’s economies compare.

Live data. No sign-in. Nothing here is advice.

The real atlas, on live data

This is the atlas people use in their workspace. Pick a question, colour the map by any measure, open a country and read its numbers — each with its year and its publisher.

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Tip: click a country. To zoom with the mouse wheel, click the map first — or use the + and − buttons.

Ask it like a colleague

In the workspace you ask your assistant in your own words, and it answers with cards like these. Pick a question to see one.

Example answers — the assistant draws these cards from the same data. Nothing here calls a model.

In the workspace you can ask anything in your own words — about a country, a company or your own work.

Five steps to research a country

  1. Pick a question

    Start from a lens — a ready-made question such as “Easy to check a partner”, “Growing and stable” or “Who owns it — free”.

  2. Colour the map by any measure

    Growth, tax, rule of law, new companies — or where company data is free. The legend counts the countries, and filters them when you press it.

  3. Open a country

    Read its numbers with their years, how it ranks, and the trend lines where we hold them.

  4. Read the company passport

    For each kind of information about a company there: who can get it, how, and at what price.

  5. Check a company there

    Checking a company needs an account. Or ask the assistant — it draws these cards in the chat.

What the company passport tells you

For every kind of information about a company — its owners, its accounts, its tax debt, its court cases — a country’s passport says who can get it. Every answer is one of these.

A seller’s price is the seller’s own, read on the date shown. Nothing is bought without your approval.

Not a black box

Every number shows its year and its publisher

Captured every night from the World Bank, the IMF, V-Dem, UNDP, Transparency International and the OECD. Each licence is named below.

A missing value says “not read”

If a country has no figure, the map marks it as no data and the card says “not read”. It is never drawn as zero and never ranked.

No country gets a score

Each layer says one thing about one measure. There is no total, no grade and no “best country”.

It is not advice: the atlas shows where to look, not what to do.

Bring it into your workspace.

Ask for access to check a company in the countries where we read it for you, and to ask the assistant about any country. We open places in waves.