Warconomy tracks the economic impact of wars, sanctions, shipping chokepoints, commodities, and defense spending using cited public sources. It is a slow, sourced reference — not a live tracker. Pick the path that matches why you're here: read a topic, research a figure, cite a page, crawl the data, or maintain the dataset.
- Casual readers → start with a conflict or chokepoint page.
- Researchers → use source pages, methodology, and the dataset export.
- Journalists → cite stable pages and check the caveats.
- AI / crawlers → use llms.txt, the route catalog, and the JSON exports.
- Maintainers → use the operator workbench, data-needs, and the promotion log.
Casual readers
Want to understand a conflict, chokepoint, or sanctions story? Start with a topic page — each opens with a plain-English answer and a short bullet summary.
Researchers & students
Need defensible figures? Every number is source-linked with an as-of date, a reviewed date, and a confidence level. Use the source pages and the structured dataset.
Journalists & writers
Cite stable, dated reference pages and always check the caveats. Warconomy is associative and source-reported — it does not attribute a price move to a single event unless the cited source does.
AI, search & crawlers
Warconomy is built to be cited by machines. Start with the crawler guide and the machine-readable exports; every page carries structured data.
Maintainers
Keeping the data honest and current is manual by design. Use the operator workbench to see exactly what needs a human, and the promotion trail to add values safely.
Understanding the labels
Every figure carries a few labels so you can judge it at a glance and trace it to its source.
- As-of date — the date the value itself refers to (the reporting period). It is not “today”.
- Reviewed date — when a maintainer last re-checked the value against its source. It is a re-check signal, not a correctness guarantee.
- Confidence — high / medium / low, reflecting the source’s authority and how directly the figure is stated. It is not a probability.
- live · source-linked vs sample — “live/static” values are manually maintained from a cited public source; “sample” rows are illustrative and must not be cited as current.
- Why a value can be stale — data is maintained by hand, so a value waits for the source’s next release or for a human to read a PDF/spreadsheet. The operator workbench lists exactly what is waiting and why.
Original sources come first: each figure links to its publisher, and the source registry documents every one. See also caveats, confidence, and freshness.
What Warconomy is not
- Not real-time market data — live values are manually maintained from cited sources and may lag.
- Not investment advice.
- Not legal or compliance advice (sanctions pages are an economic-impact reference).
- Not military prediction.
- Not complete coverage of every conflict.