I was also struck by the way the US was stuck at the top of all the charts. I'm very familiar with the source data, and I know full well that the US ranks embarrassingly low in some of the things they measure.

One that's always been controversial, and even more so in a US election year, is "GINI", which is the distribution of wealth. According to the latest stats, the US has the sixth worst distribution of wealth in the OECD, behind only Israel, Turkey, Korea, Chile, and Mexico. That's just the "developed" world. In a table of all countries, the US ranks right alongside Panama and El Salvador and other banana republics in having a wealth distribution following the plantation model.

Back at that fancy visualization widget, I tracked back their "Income" category, and found a strange thing: In the section on each individual country they mention inequality of wealth, but it looks like the number was left out of the calculation of the country ranking for the income category.

Knowing the numbers, I'm sure that if GINI weren't being left out you wouldn't be seeing the US floating on the ceiling like a helium balloon. Either the fix is in, or somebody at OECD is afraid of stirring the pot.