United States
United States appears in 5 reels. Here is where it lands in each one, and the figure the chart gives it.
United States at a glance
- People
- 342 million
- 2025
- Income per person
- $90,027 a year
- 2025
- Life expectancy
- 78.9 years
- 2024
- Live in cities
- 80%
- 2025
- Land area
- 9,147,420 km²
- 2024
United States over time, across our reels
Each chart is its own measure with its own scale. Open one to compare United States with anything else in it.
Active-duty troops by country, millions (estimates). Each note: how many times bigger China's army is
The world's 10 biggest armies, counted down
Even the next biggest army, India's, is 1.4 times smaller than China's.
Source: GlobalFirepower 2026 (active personnel, estimates) · 2026
- United States
- Guess first, then watch
Billionaires counted per country, Forbes 2026 · the 3 biggest bubbles hold 1,757 of the world's 3,428
Three countries hold over half of the world's billionaires
Forbes counts 51 in every 100 billionaires in the US, China and India. Hurun counts 60. The two lists disagree on who is first, but not on this.
Source: Forbes World's Billionaires List 2026 (1 March 2026); Hurun Global Rich List 2026 · Forbes wealth as of 1 March 2026; Hurun as of 15 January 2026
- United States#1 of 5
- 989
Tourist arrivals a year in today's top 8 countries
The world's most visited countries, 1995 to 2024
Spain cut the gap to France from 27M to 8M, while Turkey's arrivals grew more than eightfold.
Source: UN Tourism (Tourism Highlights 2025; earlier years via Our World in Data) · Jan 2026
- USA#3 of 8
- 72.4 M
All-time Olympic gold medals, Summer + Winter
Most Olympic golds ever — and the countries with none
Only 105 of 206 countries have ever won gold. Monaco: 34 Games, zero medals.
Source: IOC medal data · Wikipedia all-time Olympic medal table (precursor NOCs combined) · after Milano Cortina 2026
- United States#1 of 3
- 1,232
Forbes top 10 richest people, 1987–2026
The world's 10 richest people, every year since 1987
Today's 10th-richest person has more than 7× what the 1987 champion did (nominal dollars).
Source: Forbes World's Billionaires, 1987 & 1990–2026 (nominal US$) · March 2026
- Elon Musk#1 of 10
- 839 B
- Larry Page#2 of 10
- 257 B
- Sergey Brin#3 of 10
- 237 B
- Jeff Bezos#4 of 10
- 224 B
- Mark Zuckerberg#5 of 10
- 222 B
- Larry Ellison#6 of 10
- 190 B
- Warren Buffett#9 of 10
- 149 B
