Countries are compared by classical macroeconomic indicators such as inflation, GDP, general government debt, unemployment, etc., as well as by some other everyday indicators that are more understandable to the general public such as fuel prices, size of dwellings, number of cars, number of physicians, wine production, tourist arrivals and many more.
Države med seboj primerjamo po klasičnih makroekonomskih kazalnikih, kot so inflacija, BDP, zadolženost držav, stopnja brezposelnosti, in tudi po nekaterih drugih, splošni javnosti bolj razumljivih kazalnikih, s katerimi se srečujemo vsakodnevno, na primer po cenah goriva, velikosti stanovanj, številu avtomobilov, številu zdravnikov, pridelavi vina, številu prihodov turistov in še po številnih drugih.