What the World Is Researching
Which subjects are gaining ground and which are fading. The statistics analysts and consultants are looking up this week, ranked by attention, mapped to the countries whose data they cover.
Subject areas this week
Labour & Employment, Prices & Inflation and Financial Markets gained ground. The rest drew less attention than last week.
Whose data is being researched
Each country is shaded by how much its own data is being researched. Topics covering several economies at once (EU, OECD and world aggregates) account for a further 5.2% of the week and are not shaded.
Most-researched countries
- 1 Germany 4.9% +62%
- 2 Spain 4.5% +58%
- 3 France 3.0% −27%
- 4 Hungary 2.9% −26%
- 5 Poland 2.8% −41%
- 6 Lithuania 2.8% +31%
- 7 Romania 2.7% +101%
- 8 Italy 2.5% −64%
- 9 Netherlands 2.4% +10%
- 10 Japan 2.3% −75%
The 50 topics drawing the most attention
No topics from this subject area made this week's 50.
Reading this page
Across the week of 18 Sept 2026 – 24 Sept 2026, the most-researched topic on Apiar Data is Industrial Electricity Prices in Europe by Country (2025) (Prices & Inflation), followed by Japan Employment Rate (2025), EU Usually Works From Home Rate 2025 (lfsa_ehomp) and Croatia Industrial Production Index (2025). The table below ranks the full 50, each linking through to the underlying series and its source.
Financial Markets is moving fastest, +187% against last week. Labour & Employment and Prices & Inflation also gained. Economy & Macro fell furthest, −37%. By size rather than movement, Economy & Macro remains the largest subject area at 25% of the week's research.
Germany, Spain and France draw the most research attention this week, and United Arab Emirates is the sharpest climber at +712%. The map shades the country each topic is about, which is the subject of the data rather than where the reader sits. Topics spanning several economies at once, such as EU-wide or OECD series, are counted separately and left unshaded.
34 of the 50 topics were not in the ranking a week ago, led by Japan Employment Rate (2025), Croatia Industrial Production Index (2025) and Egypt FDI Net Inflows (% of GDP) (2025). A further 11 climbed from a lower position, the largest jump being EU Unemployment Rate by Country. New entries and steep climbs in the same subject area usually mark a theme spreading across indicators rather than one series having a strong week.
Every statistics and analysis page on Apiar Data is scored on the research attention it drew over the last seven days, then set against the seven days before it. A topic rises when it pulls more attention than it did a week ago, not because it is large. That is why a narrow national indicator can outrank a headline series. The page is rebuilt weekly, so the movement columns always compare one week against the one before.
Research attention across apiardata.com, 18 Sept 2026 – 24 Sept 2026. Updated weekly. How we build these pages