The Economist World in Figures
The Economist World in Figures app with the Factquest quiz game is a fun, data-rich reference guide for the businessperson, educator and stats geek alike. It teems with indicators on 190 countries, as well as dozens of rankings ranging from birth rates and patents to Nobel prize winners and GDP. The Factquest quiz game tests your knowledge of worldly stats. The Fact of the Day lets you start each morning a bit smarter. And data-driven articles from The Economist are updated weekly.
Category : News & Magazines
Reviews (30)
Love the idea but the execution is very poor. After just a few rounds of the quiz it started to completely unravel - suddenly "true" / "false" options appeared on questions that require a nummeric answer, etc. The Economist, please put some more work into this.
1. Info is relatively limited than other statistics places 2. By mistake chose "always" rather than "just once" an app to share the info and now I can't change it (removed and reinstalled the app)
Technically awful app. Subscription fails to renew without warning, cannot be confirmed, fail to relogin to account after reinstall. Pity that a quality publishing house can't get their basic digital products sorted.
very bad. i have paid the subscription and still cant access premium feature. already email EDG the economist digital and they divert me to world in figures. its really a good customer experience 😑
Excellent collection of statistics: it's a mobile almanac. I would like to be able to control text size from within the app.
Very dissapointed about demographic data replacement fertility in india and other countries for example . I like the quiz app but the economist team during coronavirus confinment time should have enough time to do it better
Great app. Very informative. Would be cool to have a world map built in somewhere and maybe see some heat maps built on top.
They need to check the accuracy of their so-called 'facts'. On a whim, I looked at the "Coastlines: the longest" page. To my utter amazement, Indonesia does NOT feature in these rankings AT ALL! With an area of 1.9m km² and made up of over 17,000 islands, you would have expected it to appear. Yet The Philippines with an area of 'only' 300k km² and 7k+ islands comes in at #3! Go figure! Even Panama comes in at #41. What other 'facts' have they got wrong?
In the comparison tool I can't add e.g. Area as a data point. Yet, it is an excellent application.
Factquest quiz is very good. Many sources collected and well summarised. Comparison, Country profiles and Rankings are useful.
none of the data are accessible if you don't have a subscription, even though there are ads. disappointing.
There is no option to subscribe and pay. Comparison graph can provide in more different ways. Decimal options needed
Interesting app, clean design. I understand that you need to monetize on the app but a prompt every fifth click or so, makes me feel I'm a moron.
This app offers a wonderful way to have exciting and interesting conversations as a way to get to know people. i love this app because it is simply powerful and fun.
Its a good app i would have given it a 5 star rating if the data was upgraded regurlarly, I just downloaded the app today and im seeing data from 2020 please fix this issue or maybe do i need to subscribe ?On the upside there are no ads which is Major thumps up👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
The app does not appear to allow reference to the measures-metrics (i.e, democracy index). The quiz tool should also show or compare results after each answer for better educational benefit.
I have a paid version of this App. After upgrade I am now being asked to upgrade my account. Please help look into it. I was really enjoying the App before then
Excellent application. Lots of very useful data in economics, ranks, country profile, cultural, etc. Liked a lot. Thx .
Please kindly keep updating your app, some figures are missing so an at macroeconomics student i would like to have strong knowledge in economic of different country .
The content is good, but as far as I can tell there's no way to enlarge the tiny little charts.
Awful app - bugs - does not operate properly on Android. Stopped using
To print money is the biggest question, because once you print them apply/obtain for every in other cases to print money is not that hard obviously
Most of the app is behind an annual subscription paywall - rather expensive for what it is.
I want to apply for premium membership the experience for payment subscription was very poor.
More apps like this 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 so navigation friendly, many important details you normally have to visit 5 website when u have everything on this apps!
Expensive, and has some mistakes. Wing answer according to the proper app
Really challenging!!! Some days I manage to do better than others!!
Very old data, 2015 data in 2018. Not useful.
Amidst the vast noise of global daily information, this is valuable selected data with strategic reach.
I recently downloaded this app, at the first glance it seems a very helpful tool in today's fast changing world. Recommended for all age groups. There's just one slight glitch in the app itself - I cannot continue working from my phone to my laptop although my phone is perfectly linked up with my Windows. That'd be great if fixed so that I can share some comparisons and/or results of the interesting fact game that I properly enjoy! Thank you for the good work!