Lottery of Life

Where do you sit in the world?

Enter your own circumstances to see where you fall in the global distribution - the same data, pointed at you.

Your country

You are

Your age

Total annual income for your household, after tax

$

in your country's currency

Who does that support?

Children in the household

0 counted on the OECD scale, which allows for shared costs

Global income rank

Life expectancy where you live

The world you've met

Every spin is one real person, drawn at the world's true odds. Here is where the people you've met sit on the whole of humanity's income - and where you sit, if you've told us.

And the world is changing fast

The lives you meet are mostly poorer and shorter than yours. But the deeper story is movement: by the measures that matter most, the world has been getting dramatically better - and the news rarely says so.

Source: Our World in Data (World Bank, UN IGME, and long-run historical estimates). World totals. On life expectancy, the dots show where the last life you met, and you, sit today.

But the work is far from done

Progress is real, and unfinished. Behind those falling lines are problems we already know how to solve.

4.9m

children under five still die every year - most from causes we know how to prevent

~700m

people still live in extreme poverty, on roughly $2-3 a day

~600k

die of malaria each year - the great majority young children in sub-Saharan Africa

Sources: UN IGME / WHO / UNICEF (child deaths, 2024), World Bank (extreme poverty), WHO (malaria).

Which is exactly why your position is a superpower

The same gap that can feel uncomfortable is also extraordinary leverage. Because money goes so much further where the need is greatest, a small share of yours can do an astonishing amount of good - without changing your own life much at all.

What you could do with a win you didn't earn

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All the figures behind the spin, laid out plainly. See who sits at the top and bottom of the pile on any measure, or pull up any country and everything we hold on it.

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Same sources as the spin: World Bank PIP and WID (income), UN WPP (demography, life expectancy), Our World in Data (HDI, poverty), World Happiness Report, ILOSTAT (occupation), CIA World Factbook (ethnicity). Items marked BETA are modelled estimates.