Country balance sheets

One country template, applied wherever the source data supports it.

The same balance sheet runs for every country FAND covers. What differs between them is not the structure — it is how much of the structure the source data can carry, and how honestly that can be badged.

The worked example

• United States — Production. The full ledger as a live page: PA · NC · HR · SR · DM · NW, decadal, 1955–2025. The anchor exhibit, and the one country whose figures are publishable without qualification.
• US states — the same identity rebuilt from the counties up, and the gap between that and the top-down national record treated as a measurement in its own right.

Per-country pages for the wider set are not published yet. The build pipeline produces them on demand; they are added here as each one earns its badge.

What a country page carries

The balance sheet at decadal resolution (1955, 1965, … 2025), in four registers:

• Per-capita view — CW_pc, PA_pc, NC_pc, HR_pc, SR_pc, CBA_pc, CBL_pc, NW_pc
• Aggregate view — the same components in million current USD
• Natural Capital detail — fossil fuels, minerals, forests (timber and cover), agricultural land, fisheries
• Memo items — the CW derivation inputs (GNI, working-age share, PMT, annuity factor) and the HR derivation inputs (MYS, life expectancy)

Coverage, stated plainly

The balance-sheet identity closes for 200+ of the 237 economies, 1950–2025. That is not the same as 237 publishable country pages: coverage of the identity and confidence in a given country’s figures are different questions, and the badge on each page answers the second one. See how we grade what we publish.

For the full cross-country view rather than a single country, start with the Global Leaves crosstab or open the FAND Explorer.