22 common questions, each pointing to the existing source-linked page that answers it. Warconomy is a sourced reference — not live market data, not investment advice, and not legal advice — so these answers explain what we track and link you to the figures and their original sources.
- What Warconomy is and is not.
- How to cite it, where the data comes from, and how to download it.
- What it tracks about Hormuz, the Red Sea, Russia sanctions, and defense spending.
About Warconomy
What does Warconomy track?
The economic impact of wars, sanctions, shipping chokepoints, commodities, and defense spending — reconstruction needs, energy-revenue and price-cap indicators, shipping-transit disruption, food and oil benchmarks, and military expenditure. Every quantitative claim is source-linked and dated; coverage is partial and clearly labeled, not a complete map of every conflict or sanction.
See: All topics · Explore everything · Data coverage
What is Warconomy?
Warconomy is a data-first reference layer that tracks the economic impact of wars, sanctions, shipping chokepoints, commodities, and defense spending using cited public sources. It is built to be cited by people and AI/search systems, with source-linked figures and structured data — not a news site.
See: How to use Warconomy · About
Is Warconomy live market data?
No. Warconomy is not real-time market data and not a live tracker. Live values are manually maintained from cited public sources and may lag official releases; every figure carries an as-of date. Sample rows are clearly labeled.
See: Data coverage · Refresh policy
Can I use Warconomy for investment decisions?
No. Warconomy is an economic-impact reference, not investment advice and not legal or compliance advice. Use it to understand and cite source-linked figures, then go to the original sources for decisions.
See: Caveats · How to cite
Is Warconomy legal or sanctions-compliance advice?
No. Warconomy is an economic-impact reference, not legal or compliance advice, and it is not a complete source of sanctions-compliance data. Sanctions indicators (price-cap thresholds, listed-vessel counts, frozen assets) are economic signals, not a screening list. For compliance, use official designations and qualified advisers; use Warconomy to understand and cite the economic picture.
See: Caveats · Sanctions dashboard
Using the data
Can I cite Warconomy?
Yes. Every page is a stable, dated reference with a citation block and machine-readable structured data. The citations page provides formats (including BibTeX and RIS), and each figure links to its original source so you can cite that too.
Where does Warconomy get its data?
From cited public sources — intergovernmental bodies, central banks, regulators, and authoritative research (e.g. SIPRI, FAO, EIA, the EU, the U.S. Treasury, the World Bank). Every quantitative claim carries a source and a confidence level; the source registry lists them all.
See: Source registry · Source hierarchy
Why are some data points stale or blocked?
Because the data is maintained by hand and honestly labeled. Some values wait for a source's next release; others are gated because the figure is only in a PDF/spreadsheet or behind an inaccessible page. The operator workbench lists exactly what is gated and why — nothing is fabricated to fill a gap.
See: Operator workbench · Data needs
How do I find the original sources?
Each figure links to its source, and the source registry has a page per source with its publisher, access date, and the observations it backs. Always go to the original source first for the authoritative value.
See: Sources · Source health
How do I download the dataset?
Warconomy publishes a static, machine-readable dataset export — JSON, plus CSV/JSONL distributions and a citation graph — with no runtime API, keys, or rate limits. Fetch it like any file.
See: Dataset · Static data endpoints · Developer guide
Why are some values sample indicators instead of full coverage?
Because honesty beats false completeness. Where a clean, source-linked figure exists, the value is live and dated; where it does not yet, the row is clearly labeled sample so it is never mistaken for measured data. Coverage grows only when a directly-verifiable official figure can back a value — nothing is fabricated to look complete.
See: Data coverage · Confidence levels
How do AI tools and search engines use Warconomy?
Each page opens with a standalone direct answer, a summary, and a key-metrics table, and carries JSON-LD structured data, so people and AI/search systems can extract and cite source-linked figures cleanly. There is a crawler brief and a machine-readable catalog of every static endpoint — no keys, no rate limits — and every figure links back to its original source.
See: Crawler guide · llms.txt · Static data endpoints
What are the next manual data pulls?
The operator workbench lists every value waiting on a human — each with its official source, where to read it, and why it can't be promoted automatically — ordered lowest-effort/highest-value first, with a single highlighted top pick. No numbers are stored there; it is a to-do list, not data.
See: Operator workbench · Source packets · Data needs
What we track
What does Warconomy track about the Russia–Ukraine war?
Its economic channels: reconstruction-need estimates, effects on food and energy, and fiscal and trade impacts — each source-linked and dated. It is an economic-impact reference, not battlefield reporting or military prediction, and it does not attribute price moves to specific events unless the cited source does.
See: Russia–Ukraine economic impact · Reconstruction · Conflicts dashboard
What does Warconomy track about the Strait of Hormuz?
The economic importance of the strait as the narrow passage between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman that most of the Gulf's crude oil and LNG pass through, with a schematic explainer and source-linked indicators. It is not a live ship tracker and shows no vessel positions or live open/closed status.
See: Strait of Hormuz
Why does the Strait of Hormuz matter for oil and LNG?
Because it is the narrow sea passage that a large share of the world's seaborne crude oil and LNG transits, so perceived transit risk there is tracked alongside crude benchmark prices. Warconomy explains why it matters with a schematic and source-linked context — it is an economic explainer, not a live closure monitor, and the price linkage is associative, not a causal attribution.
What does Warconomy track about Red Sea shipping?
How disruptions to the Red Sea / Suez route push carriers onto the longer route around southern Africa, and the dated transit-decline indicators cited from authoritative sources. Figures are dated snapshots, not real-time counts.
See: Red Sea shipping
What does Warconomy track about Russia sanctions?
Economic-impact signals of sanctions on Russian energy trade — price-cap thresholds, energy-revenue estimates, the shadow fleet's listed-vessel counts, and frozen assets. This is an economic reference, not legal or compliance advice, and not a complete sanctions list.
What does Warconomy track about defense spending?
Global and national military expenditure from SIPRI (annual totals and real-terms change) and the NATO 2%-of-GDP allies count. Figures are annual and source-linked, reported as levels and direction, not a causal attribution.
See: Defense spending · Defense rankings
Maritime & live monitoring
Does Warconomy do live ship tracking?
No. Warconomy is not a live AIS tracker, not a live ship tracker, and not a live closure monitor — it shows no vessel positions and no live open/closed status. Chokepoint pages use schematics and dated, source-linked indicators, not real-time vessel data.
Why not live ship tracking yet?
Because the project rules forbid scraping, paid APIs, runtime services, and scheduled jobs, and because live AIS can be spoofed or switched off — especially by the sanctioned shadow-fleet vessels of most interest — so a derived figure would need heavy caveats. The safe default is to link to authoritative external maps and official statistics rather than ingest anything.
See: Maritime data evaluation · Caveats
What would be needed for live maritime monitoring?
A source whose terms permit publishing a derived, dated value would have to pass a criteria checklist — coverage of Hormuz and the Red Sea, acceptable latency, an API or dataset (not just a map), a free tier, commercial reuse rights, an acceptable caching policy, historical access, and a way to handle spoofing — and a maintainer would have to approve it. Until then it stays a future investigation; nothing is implemented.
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