This interactive Match Preview frames every 2026 FIFA World Cup fixture as a contest of consumer spending power, comparing the two competing nations across five metrics, all taken from World Data Lab's in-house data. Here, a “consumer” refers to an individual that spends more than $13/day, the global threshold used for the population entering the middle class. You can toggle through all matchups across every World Cup group (A–L) to see how each pairing stacks up beyond the scoreline. The match preview figures are powered by World Data Lab's World Data Intelligence (WDI) platform, a globally consistent dataset that tracks and forecasts consumer spending and demographics across 190+ countries and 9,000+ cities through 2036.