Wars, sanctions and blocked shipping lanes ripple into the price of oil, food, fuel and everyday goods. Explore how — with interactive scenarios, a world map and charts, in plain English.
Plain-English explorers backed by cited public data · scenarios, not forecasts · not investment advice
Enter your own numbers — gas, groceries, shipping, sanctions/tariffs — and see a low–mid–high scenario range. Every result is a scenario, not a forecast.
Plain-English questions people are asking right now — each links to a scenario you can try and a source-reviewed briefing. Current watch items, not live news, and never forecasts.
Reviewed June 26, 2026 · 📌 Update Latest review added a source-backed pointer to the EIA Weekly Petroleum Status Report for tracking U.S. petroleum stocks and flows — Warconomy adds no number and treats it as a tracker, not a forecast. EIA Weekly Petroleum Status Report
Try the gas calculator →Current watch item · not live news
Reviewed June 26, 2026 · 📌 Update Latest review added a source-backed pointer to the IMF PortWatch chokepoint dashboard for tracking transit and diversions — Warconomy adds no number and treats it as a tracker, not a forecast. IMF PortWatch chokepoint dashboard
Try the shipping calculator →Current watch item · not live news
Reviewed June 26, 2026 · Latest source review confirms this remains a watch item, not a live data feed — a hypothetical economic channel with no military assessment and no current number.
Current watch item · not live news
Reviewed June 26, 2026 · No new numeric claim added; scenario remains assumption-based. Continue watching official minerals and trade-policy sources.
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Reviewed June 26, 2026 · No new numeric claim added; scenario remains assumption-based. Watch official energy sources for refinery and fuel-product updates.
Try the gas calculator →Current watch item · not live news
Reviewed June 26, 2026 · 📌 Update Latest review added a source-backed pointer to the FAO Food Price Index (published monthly) — Warconomy adds no number and treats it as a tracker, not a forecast. FAO Food Price Index (monthly)
Try the grocery calculator →Current watch item · not live news
Partial coverage. A growing set of indicators are manually maintained, source-linked live/static values from cited public sources; the rest are clearly labeled sample rows. Not real-time. Review queue: 15 stale event snapshots flagged for re-check. See the data coverage page, the data review queue, and the source registry.
Start with a question. Each opens a visual explainer backed by cited public data.
Distant wars connect to your fuel, food, deliveries and bills. Here's how — in plain English.
Source-reported price history for the fuels, foods and metals conflict tends to touch.
Wars near oil producers or shipping lanes can add a risk premium to crude.
Through 2024-12Pipeline cut-offs and LNG competition reshaped European gas after 2022.
Through 2024-12Black Sea exporters are central to world grain trade.
Through 2024-12A staple feed and food grain tied to the same export disruptions.
Through 2024-12Gas-intensive fertilizer links energy shocks to next season's food costs.
Through 2024-12Export limits and weather can move a staple for billions of people.
Through 2024-12Wiring, grids and EVs — a metal central to electrification and conflict-mineral supply.
Through 2024-12A producer export and a global safe-haven asset that can rise with conflict and uncertainty.
Through 2024-12World Bank World Bank Commodity Price Data (the Pink Sheet) — nominal US dollars, monthly, committed snapshot covering 1960-01 to 2024-12 (latest available month in the committed file; not real-time). Sources re-checked June 25, 2026. The year-over-year chip describes movement in the committed series — it is not a causal claim about any single event. Full charts with event markers on the commodity history page.
Official data lags — that's normal. This source-reviewed watchlist points to what is worth following today and where, while the data pages stay accurate-but-dated. How fresh is the data? →
Pick a region to see the economic channels, affected markets and explainers.
Russia and Ukraine are major exporters of energy, grain and fertilizer, so the war reordered global commodity flows, triggered the largest sanctions regime in modern history, and created a multi-year reconstruction bill — effects felt in energy and food prices far beyond the region.
The locator is an abstract schematic for orientation only — not a precise map and not a claim about borders, control or front lines. Each region links to source-linked economic-impact pages.
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Reconstruction need, food prices, fiscal and trade channels.
Suez diversions and the cost of the longer route around Africa.
Why the Gulf's narrow oil/LNG passage matters — with a schematic.
Price caps, energy revenue, and the shadow fleet.
How losses, displacement and demographics shape long-run growth.
USGS-backed figures behind the cobalt, copper and Sahel briefings.
Download the structured JSON export and browse every source.
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Jump to a theme hub — what is happening, why it matters, and the data behind it.
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Source-linked overviews for the questions people and AI search ask most. Partial coverage, manually maintained, not real-time.
Canonical economic-impact pages for active conflicts.
How key trade and energy chokepoints affect the global economy.
Described by the EIA as the world's most important oil transit chokepoint.
A primary Europe–Asia container and energy route via Bab-el-Mandeb and Suez.
A lock-based interoceanic canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific, key to U.S. container, grain, and energy trade.
The world's second-busiest oil transit chokepoint after the Strait of Hormuz.
The southern gateway of the Red Sea–Suez corridor, linking the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean.
The only sea route between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean (Bosporus and Dardanelles).
The Baltic Sea's outlet to the North Sea, central to Russian and Baltic oil exports.
Structured indicators and machine-readable exports.
A tracking dashboard for worldwide military expenditure and allied defense-spending trends.
A composite tracking dashboard for maritime disruption risk across major routes and chokepoints.
A machine-readable export of Warconomy's structured economic-impact records: entities, metrics, observations (a growing set of live/static rows plus clearly labeled sample rows), source-linked facts, events, and sources. Each observation carries its own dataMode, and the export includes coverage and freshness summaries. Partial coverage; not real-time.
Live values are reviewed by hand against their sources. Newest review on file: June 5, 2026. See data coverage and the review queue for the full picture.
SIPRI world & national totals, annual.
FAO Food Price Index, monthly basis stated.
Brent and related, source-reported.
Price caps and energy-revenue indicators.
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