Development profile: US, China, India, 1960 to 2025
Development profile: US, China, India stood at 84,534 in 2025, up 4.3% on the previous period.
One shape per country across five World Bank indicators: GDP per capita, life expectancy at birth, internet use, fertility rate, and CO2 emissions per person. Each spoke is scaled to its own maximum among the three countries, so the shapes compare profiles, not raw magnitudes.
How it is measured
All five series come from the World Bank's World Development Indicators at the latest common reading. Because the spokes carry different units (dollars, years, percentages, births, tonnes), each is normalized to the highest value among the compared countries; a shape touching the rim leads on that dimension.
What the chart shows
The three shapes tell the development story in one glance: the United States dominates income and connectivity, India leads only on fertility, and China sits between on almost every spoke while leading none decisively except emissions per person among the group's non-US members. Reading shapes rather than numbers is the radar's job; the exact values live in the hover.
Why is each spoke scaled separately?
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