Everything on Warconomy, grouped by what you're trying to do — read about a conflict or chokepoint, follow the sanctions and energy story, compare defense spending, download the data, check the methodology, or see what needs manual upkeep. Each link has a one-line explanation. Developers and crawlers can use the machine-readable route catalog at /routes.
- Grouped for humans: Start here, Conflicts, Chokepoints, Sanctions & energy, Defense, Commodities, Data & sources, Methodology, Operator.
- Every entry is an existing page with a one-sentence description.
- Machine route catalog for developers and crawlers: /routes.
Most useful pages to share
StartStart hereThe simplest on-ramp for a first-time visitor.→EverydayHow war reaches everyday lifePlain-English pathways to fuel, food, shipping, jobs and budgets.→What-ifScenario LabHands-on what-if calculators. Scenarios, not forecasts.→NowCurrent signalsA source-reviewed watchlist of what to watch, and where.→ChartsCommodity explorerCompare oil, gas, grains, fertilizer and metals over decades.→MapConflict mapAn interactive map of the world's conflict economies.→HistoryWar & GDPHow output moved around past wars — a historical comparison.→PeopleWar, population & scarringHow losses and displacement shape long-run growth.→
Start here
New to Warconomy? Begin with these.
- Start here (new visitors) — The simplest on-ramp: pick what you care about, try a tool, or take the researcher path.
- Conflict economics 101 — A plain-English intro to the economics of war, with a reader-friendly glossary.
- How to use Warconomy — A start-here guide for readers, researchers, journalists, crawlers, and maintainers.
- Questions Warconomy answers — Plain-English answers mapped to the pages that cover them.
- Topics — Every canonical economic-impact page, searchable and filterable.
- Ask a question — A question hub that routes common questions to the best page.
- What's new — Recent site and product improvements and the latest dataset releases.
Interactive tools & explorers
Hands-on, visual ways to explore the data — charts, maps and what-if calculators.
- How war reaches everyday life — Plain-English pathways from distant conflict to your fuel, groceries, deliveries, gadgets, job and taxes. No prices, no forecasts.
- Current signals (what to watch) — A source-reviewed watchlist of what to watch in today's conflict economics, and where to follow it. Not live news.
- Conflict map — An interactive map of the world's conflict economies, with the channels and explainers for each region.
- Commodity explorer — Compare oil, gas, grains, fertilizer and metals over time, with event markers and indexed views.
- War & GDP (historical) — How output moved around the onset of major conflicts — Ukraine, Iraq, Kuwait and more — aligned for comparison.
- Scenario Lab — Educational what-if calculators for oil, food, labour-force and defense shocks. Scenarios, not forecasts.
- Commodity price history — Decades of FAO indices and World Bank prices, with an interactive explorer.
Briefings
Source-reviewed explainers of how conflict and disruption move markets — not live news.
- Warconomy Briefings (hub) — All briefings, grouped by theme, with what each does and does not prove.
- Why wars affect energy prices — Supply risk, chokepoints, storage, insurance, sanctions and expectations.
- Why wars affect food prices — Grain exports, fertilizer, energy inputs and shipping disruption.
- Iran/Hormuz oil & shipping risk — The supply-risk premium and tanker channels around the Strait of Hormuz.
- Red Sea shipping & commodity costs — Rerouting, freight, insurance — anchored on dated UNCTAD/IMF assessments.
- Sanctions & the shadow fleet — Price cap, enforcement and shipping opacity in the oil trade.
Conflicts
How wars reshape economies.
- Russia–Ukraine hub — Reader hub: what's happening, why it matters economically, briefings and data.
- Middle East hub — Oil, Hormuz, Red Sea shipping, energy and insurance risk.
- Africa hub — Critical minerals, the Sahel, eastern DRC, and Sudan/Red Sea trade.
- Russia–Ukraine economic impact — Reconstruction need, food and energy effects, and fiscal channels.
- Conflict economies (World Bank) — Source-reported macro indicators for conflict-affected economies.
- War, population & economic scarring — How casualties, displacement and disability become a long economic burden — dignity-first.
- Conflict economics (topic guide) — Plain-English explainer with links to the conflict pages.
- Reconstruction — Reconstruction-need estimates and their sources.
Shipping chokepoints
Why narrow sea passages matter for trade and energy.
- Strait of Hormuz — The Gulf's oil/LNG passage, with a schematic explainer (not a live ship tracker).
- Red Sea shipping — Suez diversions and the longer route around Africa.
- Chokepoints dashboard — Cross-chokepoint overview.
- Shipping chokepoints (topic guide) — Plain-English explainer linking the chokepoint pages.
Sanctions & energy
Sanctions and the energy trade they target.
- Russia energy trade & price caps — Price-cap thresholds and energy-revenue indicators.
- Shadow fleet & shipping insurance — Listed-vessel counts and insurance restrictions.
- Frozen assets & Ukraine financing — Immobilized assets and financing indicators.
- Energy security (topic guide) — How conflict, chokepoints, and sanctions affect energy.
Defense spending
Global and national military expenditure.
- Defense spending hub — SIPRI totals and the NATO 2%-of-GDP count.
- Defense comparison — Top spenders compared and the world-total trend.
- Defense rankings — Top spenders by the latest SIPRI estimate.
- Defense spending (topic guide) — Plain-English explainer with the defense pages.
Commodities & food
Food and energy prices tracked alongside conflict.
- Food prices (FAO) — The FAO Food Price Index, with its basis stated.
- Oil benchmarks — Brent and related benchmarks, source-reported.
- Commodities dashboard — The food and energy series together.
- Food price history — The FAO Food Price Index over time (since 1990), with reference markers around conflict periods.
- Food & commodities (topic guide) — Plain-English explainer linking the commodity pages.
Data & sources
Download the data and trace every figure.
- Dataset export — Static JSON + CSV/JSONL + citation graph; no runtime API.
- Sources registry — Every cited source with its publisher and access date.
- Data coverage — Which data is live vs sample, and freshness.
- Developer guide — How to fetch and use the static endpoints.
- Static data endpoints — The machine-readable catalog (no keys, no rate limits).
- Free data sources roadmap — Which free public datasets/APIs to ingest, watch, or reject — and why.
Methodology & trust
How the data is sourced, reviewed, and labeled.
- Methodology — How Warconomy sources, reviews, and labels every figure.
- How to cite — Citation formats and stable identifiers.
- Caveats — The standing caveats on the data.
- Source hierarchy — Which sources rank above which, and why.
- Indexing readiness — How the site is prepared for search/AI indexing.
- Maritime data evaluation — Why there's no live ship tracking, and what a future delayed layer would require.
- Live-data architecture — Why Warconomy is static, and what a future live/delayed data layer would require.
Operator & maintenance
What needs manual upkeep (public-safe transparency).
- Operator workbench — Every data task that needs a human, with sources and next actions.
- Source packets — Copy-paste templates for handing a source value back.
- Data needs — The source-gated backlog.
- Promotion log — The audit trail of promoted and blocked values.
- Machine route catalog — Every route and endpoint, for crawlers and developers.
For developers & crawlers
The full machine-readable catalog of every page and endpoint is at /routes (and /routes/data.json), with the crawler guide at /llms.txt.