Earth Is
Ghetto. — A world map of how cooked every country got.
Earth is so ghetto, we decided to score and rank it. Hover any country to see receipts on air pollution, billionaires, political polarization, incarceration, housing cost burden, catastrophic health spending, life expectancy, homicide, and income inequality (Gini). This isn't about poor countries. It's about powerful ones failing on purpose.
Interactive world map and country stats
Nigeria
The Hall of Shame
Top of the leaderboard is not a poverty ranking. It reflects how corruption, weak infrastructure, broken services, violence, inequality, and bad governance turn hardship into policy.
Policy Watchlist
Real laws being passed right now in the US, UK, and EU — explained in plain English. Official sources only.
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The Cooked Index is a weighted blend of nine metrics chosen to highlight failures of power: air pollution, billionaire count, political polarization, incarceration, housing cost burden (households spending over 30% of income on shelter), catastrophic health spending (population one bill from ruin), life expectancy, homicide rate, and income inequality (Gini coefficient — above 40 signals a significant wealth gap). Sources include Forbes, IQAir, V-Dem, World Prison Brief, OECD, WHO, UN/WPP, UNODC and the World Bank.
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