WORLD BANK WDI · 2015–2024 · 2026-10-22
United States: birth odds and 20 country-data indicators
Read 20 World Bank WDI reference indicators for United States, each with its year, unit and source. Game birthplace weights are separate, and averages do not determine an individual life.
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On the United States page, GDP per person and out-of-pocket health spending should not be read as a person’s salary and medical bill. One is an aggregate average and the other a spending share, not a household cost estimate.
Use the reference values to frame a question about study, work or caring for family: how might immediate resources and longer-term hopes conflict? The game tells that trade-off with coarse rules rather than a complete model of insurance, taxation or health care.
v2 birthplace draw · UN WPP2024
- Birth-weighted
- 2.78%
- Population-weighted
- 4.21%
New lives use UN WPP2024 birth or population weights for the selected year. These 2026 shares use the medium projection, normalized over 172 included places. Legacy v1 records retain their original rules. UN WPP2024 ↗
Legacy v1 weights
Separately: approximate v1 game draw weights
- Birth-weighted
- 2.78%
- Population-weighted
- 4.22%
These are prototype-country-v1 weights normalized across 172 included places. Their original observation years remain unverified. They are not exact current world birth odds and have not been replaced by the WDI display dataset below.
20 public reference indicators
Each indicator uses its latest non-empty observation within 2015–2024, so years differ. Some original providers use modeled estimates. Missing values are shown as — and are not imputed.
| Indicator | Observation | Year | Unit | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total population | 340,003,797 | 2024 | people | Source observation ↗ Definition ↗ |
| Female life expectancy at birth | 81.4 | 2024 | years | Source observation ↗ Definition ↗ |
| Male life expectancy at birth | 76.5 | 2024 | years | Source observation ↗ Definition ↗ |
| Probability of dying before age five | 6.5 | 2024 | per 1,000 live births | Source observation ↗ Definition ↗ |
| Infant mortality rate | 5.5 | 2024 | per 1,000 live births | Source observation ↗ Definition ↗ |
| GDP per person (PPP) | 75,698 | 2024 | constant 2021 international dollars | Source observation ↗ Definition ↗ |
| Gini index | 41.8 | 2024 | 0–100 | Source observation ↗ Definition ↗ |
| Urban population share | 80.1 | 2024 | % | Source observation ↗ Definition ↗ |
| Employment in agriculture | 1.6 | 2024 | % of total employment | Source observation ↗ Definition ↗ |
| Tertiary gross enrollment ratio | 79.4 | 2022 | % | Source observation ↗ Definition ↗ |
| Internet use | 94.7 | 2024 | % of population | Source observation ↗ Definition ↗ |
| Total fertility rate | 1.63 | 2024 | births per woman | Source observation ↗ Definition ↗ |
| Maternal mortality ratio | 17 | 2023 | per 100,000 live births | Source observation ↗ Definition ↗ |
| HIV prevalence (ages 15–49) | — | — | % | Definition ↗ |
| Intentional homicide rate | 5.8 | 2023 | per 100,000 people per year | Source observation ↗ Definition ↗ |
| Road traffic mortality | 12.7 | 2019 | per 100,000 people | Source observation ↗ Definition ↗ |
| Male tobacco use (ages 15+) | 20 | 2024 | % | Source observation ↗ Definition ↗ |
| Female tobacco use (ages 15+) | 11.6 | 2024 | % | Source observation ↗ Definition ↗ |
| Out-of-pocket health spending | 10.9 | 2023 | % of current health expenditure | Source observation ↗ Definition ↗ |
| Women ages 20–24 first married by 18 | — | — | % | Definition ↗ |
Source: World Bank WDI and the original providers identified by each series. Retrieved: 2026-10-22 · CC BY 4.0
Bring the reference back to a fictional life
These 20 measures are verifiable environmental references, not a checklist of events a character must experience. They are not all fed directly into the current game engine. One fictional life cannot represent a country, and averages do not determine a person’s lifespan, career or happiness.
The play link draws a random origin using your selected sampling method; it does not guarantee this country. Read different references, then try a random beginning. To revisit a particular decision, branch from a saved choice.