Does the world already make enough for everyone?
INTERACTIVE · PRIMARY-SOURCEDShort answer: yes — and it isn't close. Take what humanity actually produces in a year and divide it by all 8.2 billion of us, and every person's even share lands above the published minimum need for food, water, and electricity — with money left over. Hunger, homelessness, and energy poverty are distribution outcomes, not production shortfalls. Don't take our word for it — grab the levers below and prove it yourself.
Every figure is a real, cited total (FAO · IEA · IMF · WHO · World Bank · UBS · SIPRI). The simulator only does honest arithmetic on those numbers — divide by population, move a lever, watch the world respond.
The world wastes 32% of its food (FAO+UNEP). Recover some and it lands on plates.
Global military spend is $2.7T/yr (SIPRI) — that's $329 a year for every human alive.
58 million millionaires hold 47.5% of the world's $449.9T (UBS).
Arithmetic only: each readout is a cited global total divided by the UN population (8.2B), then adjusted by the lever you set. "Even share" ≠ a policy proposal — it's a sanity check on whether the stuff exists. It does.
"But won't people just stop working?"
THE OBJECTION, TESTEDIt's the first thing everyone says. It's also the most-studied question in development economics — and in the best-evaluated programs on record, it simply doesn't happen. Flip the cards:
No drop in labor supply in any arm; people shifted toward entrepreneurship. Long-term-commitment arm drove saving + investment.
Banerjee, Faye, Krueger, Niehaus, Suri (2023), J-PAL →A yearly oil dividend to every resident for 40+ years caused no drop in overall employment; part-time work rose slightly.
Jones & Marinescu (2022), AEJ: Economic Policy →Cash replacing fuel subsidies (~29% of median income) did not reduce labor supply; some sectors worked more.
Salehi-Isfahani & Mostafavi-Dehzooei (2018), J. Dev. Econ. →$500/mo unconditional: full-time employment rose 12→28 pts vs control; recipients had better financial + mental health.
West, Castro Baker et al. (2021) →Every number, sourced
No claim without a primary link — the same rule the underlying open dataset (CC0) holds itself to.