question: Are these figures real-time?

answerSummary: No. They are annual SIPRI/NATO estimates, manually transcribed as source-linked static values with an as-of and review date, and may be revised in future SIPRI releases.

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: What is Warconomy?

answerSummary: A data-first economic-impact reference: source-linked indicators for the economic impact of wars, sanctions, chokepoints, defense spending, and reconstruction. It is not a news site, not real-time,...

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: Is Warconomy real-time?

answerSummary: No. Every value is a manually maintained, source-linked static figure with an as-of date and a review date. Coverage is partial; sample rows are clearly labeled.

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: Is the data real-time?

answerSummary: No. Every value is a manually maintained, source-linked static figure with an as-of date and a review date. Coverage is partial.

page: /economic-impact

caveatGroup: not-real-time

relatedPath: /economic-impact


question: What does live / static mean?

answerSummary: A live/static value is genuinely sourced and manually transcribed from a cited public source, with an as-of and a last-reviewed date. It is citeable as a source-reported value, but it is not real-t...

page: /economic-impact

caveatGroup: not-real-time

relatedPath: /economic-impact


question: Is coverage complete?

answerSummary: No — coverage is partial and not real-time. Quantitative values are source-linked, and sample rows are clearly labeled and must not be cited as current data.

page: /topics

caveatGroup: not-real-time

relatedPath: /topics


question: Are dashboards source-linked?

answerSummary: Yes. Dashboards are derived roll-ups; every figure resolves to a source-linked topic or source page. They are partial, manually maintained, and not real-time.

page: /dashboards

caveatGroup: not-real-time

relatedPath: /dashboards


question: Is this a live shipping tracker?

answerSummary: No — it is not real-time and not a live vessel tracker. The Red Sea figures are dated historical snapshots that read stale by design.

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: Are reconstruction figures final?

answerSummary: No — reconstruction and macro estimates are decade-horizon figures that institutions periodically revise. They are not real-time.

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: What is out of scope?

answerSummary: Scraping, scheduled jobs, runtime APIs, paid data, real-time tracking, legal/compliance advice, and causal-attribution modeling.

page: /methodology

caveatGroup: not-real-time

relatedPath: /methodology


question: Is coverage complete?

answerSummary: No. Coverage is partial and not real-time; this page shows exactly how much is source-linked live data versus labeled sample rows.

page: /data-coverage

caveatGroup: not-real-time

relatedPath: /data-coverage


question: What is the data review queue?

answerSummary: A deterministic list of which source-linked values to re-check next, with recommended-review-by dates derived from each source's cadence. It is review status, not real-time monitoring.

page: /data-review

caveatGroup: not-real-time

relatedPath: /data-review


question: Are values fetched live from these sources?

answerSummary: No. Values are manually transcribed static fixtures from the publishers' own pages — not real-time and not automatically updated.

page: /sources

caveatGroup: not-real-time

relatedPath: /sources


question: Is the export real-time?

answerSummary: No. It is a static, manually maintained JSON file with a version and an as-of reference date; it is regenerated by hand when values are refreshed.

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: Is the data real-time?

answerSummary: No — values are manually maintained, source-linked static figures with as-of and review dates.

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: Is this a live vessel tracker?

answerSummary: No — it is not real-time and not maritime intelligence. Vessel counts are dated as of specific sanctions packages or actions.

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: Is the Brent price real-time?

answerSummary: No — it is a manually maintained monthly average from the EIA, not a live quote.

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: Are the Red Sea figures current?

answerSummary: No — they are dated historical snapshots from the acute disruption phase (UNCTAD/IMF, 2024). They remain source-linked but read stale; they are not real-time.

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: Is this a live shipping tracker?

answerSummary: No. Warconomy is not a live vessel or freight tracker; shipping metrics (transits, container transits, trade volume, revenue) are not interchangeable.

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: Is the canal data real-time?

answerSummary: No. The transit and revenue figures are official Panama Canal Authority FY2024 annuals, and the oil-transit figures are EIA quarterly snapshots (1Q–2Q 2025). They are manually maintained and not a ...

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: Is this a live shipping tracker?

answerSummary: No. The figures are dated EIA quarterly snapshots, not real-time, and oil-transit volume is only one of several ways to measure the strait.

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: Why have flows through Bab el-Mandeb dropped?

answerSummary: Red Sea security disruption since late 2023 has diverted many tankers around the Cape of Good Hope. The EIA estimates oil transit fell to about 3.7 million b/d (1Q2025) and 4.3 million b/d (2Q2025)...

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: Is this a live vessel tracker?

answerSummary: No. The figures are dated EIA quarterly snapshots, not real-time, and this is an economic-impact reference, not legal or compliance advice on sanctions.

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: Is this real-time or legal advice?

answerSummary: Neither. The figures are dated EIA quarterly snapshots, not real-time, and this is an economic-impact reference, not legal or compliance advice.

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: Is this the same as the Strait of Hormuz Brent figure?

answerSummary: Related but distinct: this page uses an EIA daily spot value, while the Strait of Hormuz page tracks a monthly Brent average. A daily spot differs from a monthly average; neither is real-time.

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: Is this real-time?

answerSummary: No. The values are manually maintained monthly EIA snapshots. Gas prices reflect weather, storage, and LNG flows as well as geopolitics, so they are tracked as benchmarks, not causal attributions.

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: Is this real-time?

answerSummary: No. The values are manually maintained monthly FAO snapshots and may be revised. The same index also appears on the Russia–Ukraine page in its food-channel context.

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: What does the commodities dashboard cover?

answerSummary: A cross-topic overview of oil benchmarks (Brent & WTI), natural gas (Henry Hub), and food prices (FAO Food Price Index and sub-indices), with source-linked indicators, coverage, and review status. ...

caveatGroup: not-real-time


question: Where should I start?

answerSummary: See /topics for every canonical page, /dashboards for cross-topic overviews, or jump to the sanctions, chokepoints, or conflicts dashboards. /data-coverage shows what is live versus sample.

caveatGroup: sample-vs-live


question: What does sample mean?

answerSummary: A sample row is an illustrative placeholder used to demonstrate structure. It is always labeled in the UI and must never be cited as current or measured.

page: /economic-impact

caveatGroup: sample-vs-live

relatedPath: /economic-impact


question: What is the difference between live and sample rows?

answerSummary: Live/static rows are genuinely sourced, manually maintained values with an as-of and review date. Sample rows are clearly labeled placeholders and must not be cited as current or measured data.

page: /data-coverage

caveatGroup: sample-vs-live

relatedPath: /data-coverage


question: Is this a complete ranking of military spending?

answerSummary: No. Warconomy source-links only the top three spenders and the world total; the full top-10 and regional totals are listed as data needs because they are not directly text-verifiable from the acces...

caveatGroup: partial-coverage


question: Is Warconomy a news site?

answerSummary: No. Warconomy is a data-first, source-linked economic-impact reference designed to be cited — not a news feed and not narrative coverage.

page: /economic-impact

caveatGroup: partial-coverage

relatedPath: /economic-impact


question: How is Warconomy's coverage organized?

answerSummary: Into canonical topic pages (conflicts, chokepoints, sanctions), category dashboards that roll those up, data dashboards, and a machine-readable dataset. This index lists every canonical page by cat...

page: /topics

caveatGroup: partial-coverage

relatedPath: /topics


question: What is the dashboards hub?

answerSummary: A single index of Warconomy's overview surfaces: category dashboards (sanctions, chokepoints, conflicts), data dashboards, trust surfaces (coverage, review), the source registry, and the dataset.

page: /dashboards

caveatGroup: partial-coverage

relatedPath: /dashboards


question: What is the economic impact of sanctions on Russia?

answerSummary: Warconomy tracks it through source-linked indicators across energy-trade price caps, the oil shadow fleet, frozen assets / Ukraine financing, and secondary-sanctions enforcement. Coverage is partia...

caveatGroup: partial-coverage


question: Is this legal or compliance advice?

answerSummary: No. This is an economic-impact reference, not legal or compliance advice, and not a complete map of any sanctions regime.

caveatGroup: partial-coverage


question: What is the economic impact of the Russia–Ukraine war?

answerSummary: Warconomy tracks source-linked indicators for reconstruction needs and food/commodity prices, alongside the energy and sanctions channels covered elsewhere. Coverage is partial.

caveatGroup: partial-coverage


question: What is in the dataset export?

answerSummary: Enriched observations, sources, source-linked facts, policy thresholds, the sanctions block, dashboardHub, topicIndex, per-category review, and coverage/review summaries — plus a citation graph at ...

caveatGroup: partial-coverage


question: Is this legal or compliance advice?

answerSummary: No. It is an economic-impact reference, not legal or compliance advice, and not a complete enforcement database.

caveatGroup: partial-coverage


question: Is coverage complete?

answerSummary: No. Coverage is partial and not every channel or linkage is represented. Every channel resolves to source-linked figures via the trust surfaces.

page: /transmission-map

caveatGroup: partial-coverage

relatedPath: /transmission-map


question: Does higher military spending mean more military activity?

answerSummary: No. Military expenditure is an annual budget measure — it is not the same as procurement, military aid, or battlefield activity, and these figures are levels and direction only, not a causal attrib...

caveatGroup: causality


question: Are price moves attributed to chokepoint events?

answerSummary: No. Benchmarks are tracked alongside risk; linkages are associative, not a causal attribution.

caveatGroup: causality


question: What does 'stale' mean?

answerSummary: Stale is a review status — a re-check is recommended before citing the value as current context. It does not mean the value is wrong; many stale rows are valid historical snapshots.

page: /methodology

caveatGroup: causality

relatedPath: /methodology


question: Does 'stale' mean the data is wrong?

answerSummary: No. Stale is a review signal based on each source's cadence — it means a re-check is recommended, not that the value is incorrect.

page: /data-coverage

caveatGroup: causality

relatedPath: /data-coverage


question: Does stale mean the figure is false?

answerSummary: No. Stale means a manual re-check is recommended before citing the value as current context; dated policy effective dates and event snapshots read stale by design.

page: /data-review

caveatGroup: causality

relatedPath: /data-review


question: Why does the Strait of Hormuz matter to the economy?

answerSummary: It is the world's most important oil-transit chokepoint; perceived transit risk is tracked alongside crude benchmark prices. Linkages are associative, not a causal attribution.

caveatGroup: causality


question: What are Brent and WTI?

answerSummary: Brent is the international waterborne crude benchmark; WTI is the U.S. (Cushing) benchmark. The EIA reported Brent spot at US$92.88/bbl and WTI at US$91.16/bbl on 29 May 2026. They are market bench...

caveatGroup: causality


question: Does this prove a war caused a price move?

answerSummary: No. Oil prices reflect supply, demand, OPEC+ decisions, inventories, and the dollar. Warconomy tracks benchmarks alongside risk and does not attribute a move to a single event unless the source does.

caveatGroup: causality


question: Did the Russia–Ukraine war cause these prices?

answerSummary: Cereals and vegetable oils are the sub-indices most exposed to the Black Sea / Ukraine channel, but prices reflect many factors. Warconomy tracks the indices alongside the food channel, not as a ca...

caveatGroup: causality


question: Are these prices attributed to wars or sanctions?

answerSummary: No. Commodity prices are market benchmarks tracked alongside conflict, sanctions, and chokepoint risk — not causal attributions. Prices reflect many factors.

caveatGroup: causality


question: What does stale mean here?

answerSummary: Stale means a manual review is recommended before citing a value as current context — not that the value is wrong. Dated historical snapshots (e.g. EIA quarterly chokepoint flows) can remain valid ...

page: /data-maintenance

caveatGroup: causality

relatedPath: /data-maintenance


question: What does source readiness mean?

answerSummary: It is a derived label (high/medium/low) describing how directly a source backs a maintained value — based on authority, citation role, deep-linking, and review metadata. It explains why a source is...

page: /source-quality

caveatGroup: causality

relatedPath: /source-quality


question: Does the map show causation?

answerSummary: No. It is a relationship map derived from how Warconomy's data links together. A connection means 'tracked alongside', not 'caused by' — it is not a causal-attribution model.

page: /transmission-map

caveatGroup: causality

relatedPath: /transmission-map


question: Is the FAO index a measure of war damage?

answerSummary: No — it is a global food-commodity benchmark tracked alongside the food channel, not a causal attribution to the war.

caveatGroup: causality


question: What is the best page for sanctions questions?

answerSummary: The sanctions dashboard (/sanctions/dashboard) is the cross-topic overview; individual figures live on the energy-trade, shadow-fleet, frozen-assets, and circumvention topic pages. It is an economi...

page: /economic-impact

caveatGroup: legal-compliance

relatedPath: /economic-impact


question: Is this legal or compliance advice?

answerSummary: No. This is an economic-impact reference, not legal or compliance advice.

caveatGroup: legal-compliance


question: Is this legal or compliance advice?

answerSummary: No. It is an economic-impact reference, not legal or compliance advice.

caveatGroup: legal-compliance


question: Is this legal or compliance advice?

answerSummary: No. It is an economic-impact reference, not legal or compliance advice, and not a tracker of legal proceedings.

caveatGroup: legal-compliance


question: Are the price caps market prices?

answerSummary: No — price caps are policy thresholds, not market prices, and the EU and U.S./G7 caps differ by jurisdiction.

caveatGroup: provenance-versioning


question: How do chokepoints affect the economy?

answerSummary: Through energy benchmarks (e.g. Brent), shipping-transit disruption (Suez/Red Sea), route diversion, and freight costs. Warconomy tracks these with source-linked indicators.

caveatGroup: provenance-versioning


question: How is freshness computed without a live clock?

answerSummary: Deterministically, against a curated reference date (site.dataAsOf), never the runtime clock — so the static build and tests stay reproducible.

page: /methodology

caveatGroup: provenance-versioning

relatedPath: /methodology


question: Are the EU and U.S./G7 oil price caps the same?

answerSummary: No. They differ by jurisdiction — the U.S./G7 coalition cap and the EU's lower dynamic cap are tracked as separate source-linked policy thresholds, not market prices.

caveatGroup: provenance-versioning


question: Are the frozen assets confiscated?

answerSummary: No — they are immobilized, not confiscated. The principal is distinct from the windfall proceeds used to repay G7/EU loans to Ukraine.

caveatGroup: provenance-versioning


question: Why do EU and worldwide figures differ?

answerSummary: EU-only figures (about €210bn) are a subset of the worldwide total (about €260bn). Principal, proceeds, committed loans, and disbursements are all distinct.

caveatGroup: provenance-versioning


question: Are entity counts comparable across jurisdictions?

answerSummary: No. EU listings, OFAC designations, and BIS Entity List additions use different scopes; the counts here are per-package snapshots, not cumulative or cross-jurisdiction comparable.

caveatGroup: provenance-versioning


question: How is Bab el-Mandeb different from the Red Sea page?

answerSummary: This page focuses on oil and energy transit through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait (EIA figures), while the Red Sea page covers container-shipping and Suez transit disruption (UNCTAD/IMF). They are kept ...

caveatGroup: provenance-versioning


question: Which natural gas price does Warconomy track?

answerSummary: The U.S. Henry Hub benchmark: EIA reported US$2.94/MMBtu in May 2026, up from US$2.77 in April 2026. European (TTF) and Asian (JKM) gas prices can move very differently and are not captured here.

caveatGroup: provenance-versioning


question: How are chokepoints ranked?

answerSummary: By a single comparable EIA metric — crude oil and petroleum-liquids transit volume — for the latest comparable quarter (2Q2025). Vessel transits, tonnage, and price benchmarks are different measure...

caveatGroup: provenance-versioning


question: How do the top military spenders compare in 2025?

answerSummary: By SIPRI's 2025 estimate the United States (US$954bn), China (US$336bn), and Russia (US$190bn) are the three largest spenders, together about 51% of the world total of US$2,887bn. Only this single ...

caveatGroup: source-limits


question: How should I cite a Warconomy page?

answerSummary: Cite a category dashboard for an overview, a topic or source page for an individual figure, and the JSON export or citation graph for machine-readable references. Every figure links to its underlyi...

page: /economic-impact

caveatGroup: source-limits

relatedPath: /economic-impact


question: Where is the machine-readable data?

answerSummary: At /datasets/conflict-economic-impact/data.json, with a deterministic citation graph at graph.json. The export includes observations, sources, policy thresholds, the sanctions block, source quality...

page: /economic-impact

caveatGroup: source-limits

relatedPath: /economic-impact


question: How does Warconomy choose sources?

answerSummary: Official and intergovernmental publishers are the source of record; authoritative research is used at medium confidence. News summaries and inaccessible/paywalled charts are not used as the source ...

page: /economic-impact

caveatGroup: source-limits

relatedPath: /economic-impact


question: Topic page or dashboard — which should I cite?

answerSummary: Cite a category dashboard for a cross-topic overview and a topic page for an individual figure. Each figure links to its underlying source.

page: /topics

caveatGroup: source-limits

relatedPath: /topics


question: What counts as a source of record?

answerSummary: Official and intergovernmental publishers first; authoritative research (e.g. CREA, KSE) at medium confidence. News summaries and inaccessible/paywalled charts are not used as the source of record ...

page: /methodology

caveatGroup: source-limits

relatedPath: /methodology


question: Where does Warconomy's data come from?

answerSummary: Official and intergovernmental publishers (EIA, SIPRI, NATO, UNCTAD, IMF, the European Commission, the U.S. Treasury) and authoritative research (CREA). Every public source is listed here with a pe...

page: /sources

caveatGroup: source-limits

relatedPath: /sources


question: What is citation readiness?

answerSummary: A derived label (high/medium/low) summarizing a source's authority, role, and how directly it backs a maintained value — to help cite the strongest source for each figure.

page: /sources

caveatGroup: source-limits

relatedPath: /sources


question: What is the shadow fleet?

answerSummary: Ageing tankers with opaque ownership and non-Western insurance that carry Russian oil outside G7 maritime services. Warconomy tracks source-linked vessel-listing and export-share indicators.

caveatGroup: source-limits


question: What are secondary sanctions?

answerSummary: Measures that reach beyond Russia to the third-country firms and intermediaries that re-route restricted goods or finance. Warconomy tracks source-linked enforcement and export-control indicators.

caveatGroup: source-limits


question: Does Warconomy auto-refresh its data?

answerSummary: No. Warconomy is manually maintained and static — there is no scraping, no scheduled jobs, and no runtime API calls. This page lists which source-linked values are due for a manual re-check, groupe...

page: /data-maintenance

caveatGroup: source-limits

relatedPath: /data-maintenance


question: How are quarterly rows handled?

answerSummary: Quarterly sources such as the EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook chokepoint table use the irregular ('unknown') cadence bucket and are flagged for periodic review or appending the next period when the s...

page: /data-maintenance

caveatGroup: source-limits

relatedPath: /data-maintenance


question: How is readiness scored?

answerSummary: Deterministically from each source's type, cadence, URL, and how it is used (live observations vs facts). There are no manual scores. Official publishers backing a live deep-linked value rank highest.

page: /source-quality

caveatGroup: source-limits

relatedPath: /source-quality


question: How does the war affect the global economy?

answerSummary: Mainly through energy, food, and trade channels, plus large reconstruction needs. Warconomy tracks source-linked indicators (e.g. the RDNA4 reconstruction need and the FAO Food Price Index) rather ...

caveatGroup: source-limits


question: Is the data machine-readable?

answerSummary: Yes. Every page carries JSON-LD, and the full dataset is exported as static JSON at /datasets/conflict-economic-impact/data.json with a citation graph at graph.json.

caveatGroup: static-api


question: Where is the machine-readable data?

answerSummary: At /datasets/conflict-economic-impact/data.json, with a citation graph at graph.json. The export includes policy thresholds, the sanctions block, dashboardHub, topicIndex, and per-category review.

page: /dashboards

caveatGroup: static-api

relatedPath: /dashboards


question: Does Warconomy publish casualty figures?

answerSummary: No. Warconomy focuses on economic impact and does not publish casualty or battlefield estimates.

caveatGroup: general


question: What does category review show?

answerSummary: The same sitewide queue grouped by category (sanctions, conflicts, chokepoints, dashboards). Category counts reconcile with the sitewide totals.

page: /data-review

caveatGroup: general

relatedPath: /data-review


question: Why did Panama Canal traffic fall?

answerSummary: A severe 2023–2024 drought cut Lake Gatún water levels, forcing the canal to reduce daily transit slots and draft. The Panama Canal Authority reported 9,944 deep-draft transits in FY2024, down abou...

caveatGroup: general


question: How important is the Strait of Malacca for oil?

answerSummary: It is the world's second-busiest oil transit chokepoint after the Strait of Hormuz. The EIA estimates about 21.7 million b/d (1Q2025) and 22.8 million b/d (2Q2025) of crude and petroleum liquids tr...

caveatGroup: general


question: What moves through the Turkish Straits?

answerSummary: Predominantly crude oil from Russian, Caspian, and Black Sea ports bound for the Mediterranean. The EIA estimates about 3.6 million b/d (1Q2025) and 3.7 million b/d (2Q2025) of oil transited the Bo...

caveatGroup: general


question: Why do the Danish Straits matter for sanctions?

answerSummary: They are a primary outlet for seaborne Russian and Baltic crude and product exports, so they feature in price-cap and shadow-fleet attention. The EIA estimates about 4.8 million b/d (1Q2025) and 4....

caveatGroup: general


question: What is the FAO Food Price Index?

answerSummary: A trade-weighted basket of five sub-indices (cereals, vegetable oils, dairy, meat, sugar). It averaged 130.8 points in May 2026 (2014–2016 = 100). It is a global price benchmark, not a hunger or fo...

caveatGroup: general


question: Why isn't the Strait of Hormuz in the ranking?

answerSummary: Hormuz is the largest oil chokepoint overall, but Warconomy tracks it via a crude benchmark rather than this EIA transit series, so it is not part of this single-metric comparable ranking.

caveatGroup: general