What is an instant answer?

You have entered your search request. Now what? For some searches, Knoema provides an instant answer. Our instant answers provide you with summary information on your search, including recent trends, and the ability to jump to ranking and map views of the result.

For example, if you search for “Mexico health expenditure per capita,” the Instant Answer informs you of the most recent expenditure level and growth trend as well as the definition of the concept. Directly below the Instant Answer, you may find other results related to your search, grouped into dataset, timeseries, and visualizations.

If instead you searched for “health expenditure per capita” more generally, you would get a ranking of countries as an Instant Answer, including a table of historical data.