Economist World in Figures App Reviews

If you know whos the 50th or last an you can understand why theyre better or worse off (along with other stats that you may find useless) then you can actually analyze and make policies along with it

Great app. Should also include maps that show bordering nations.

All The Economist has is its brand, so its surprising to see such a weak offering with their name on it. The country lists are woefully incomplete, the sort function may or may not work, there are no maps at all, and many lists are simply blank - like largest cities, for example. The trivia feature was obviously an after thought. This app is much worse than simply using Wikipedia.

App seems stable and easy to navigate, but the data are wrong and internally inconsistent in a number of places (e.g. One of the trivia facts says that Italian women have the worlds 6th lowest life expectancy. Its sixth highest). Also, data are missing in other places (eg largest banks by market cap: no data). You get what you pay for.

Big potential, hope criticisms are taken seriously and a revision released soon. Sponsor must hate the ragged edges.

Why?

Religion has become so important. Your app should reflect that. Also need religious wars and acts of Muslim terror per country.

Its too outdated! You only have info on Argentina up to 2011… our economy is terrible and inflation sooooo high!!! Your app should show that!

It is a very nice and useful app if you want that sort of information. The only problem is that some of the data are two or three years old.

I find that this app (and the Economist since this app is a representation of the publication) lacks humanitarian empathy. No stats on Gaza/Palestine - sending a bias message. Big supporter of Economist content, bias aside, but it would be nice to at least have the stats for this region.

This app supplies stale data. I expect better from The Economist. I immediately canceled.

Excellent. Informative and fun. However needs a better index and a way to learn the correct answers

I am rather disappointed by the content in premier version (paid). The additional benefit seem to be the chart maker and maybe something else I have not discovered. I purchased the premier edition because I want to know how the rankings and scope are defined. Without which, the ranking is rather meaningless and there is no way to reconcile The Economists ranking from other.

This app and the advanced extension for graphing etc do not work on iPhone 6 plus. You just get stuck in an endless sign in loop. Pathetic waste of money.

Its a neat and interesting idea. I saw an ad for this in the magazine (Im a paying subscriber) and immediately downloaded it. I rarely download new apps so quickly. However, it was very hard for me to fall in love with it since the free feature set is so incredibly limited. I can look up the population of Denmark (5.6 million) but anything beyond that, the app wants me to cough up money and I dont even know what I will get. Could I at least get a free month to try it? A discount rate perhaps for being an at least quasi loyal subscriber to the magazine? In short: the idea is great. But because the app fails to deliver any value to me out of the gate, Ive already given up. Deleted.

My favorite part of this application is fact-quest. After you play it a couple dozen times, it wont allow play it again and directs you to play it online.

Those who actually collect, work with, or casually enjoy economic data points knows your team needs to offer a trial period. A couple hours would suffice. This price is cheap for a normally expensive data class, which makes me doubt how rich the quality would be. I can scrape or text mine any web sites that have offering comparable information. Why should we users blindly throw away a few hard earned dollars for this app? Motivate us folks at The Economist!! You obviously dont need the money, but you definitely to engage a younger audience that leverages mobile data. Think about tomorrows revenues, today!

Like "Trivia Crack" for the walking encyclopedias of the world.

Excellent app

Ive been looking for something like this. It is great for gaining insights and learning new things. The only problem is that it needs support for iPhone 6/6 plus resolution. Itd be great if it added new features and new kinds of data too. Overall great app, I recommend :)