The real economic footprint of the 2026 World Cup — the host economies in US dollars, where the money lands, and the matchday spend. Refreshed daily.
Answers come only from today's snapshot above — figures, not advice.
US context: inflation 3.5% · unemployment 4.2% · jobs 159M
The US workforce and consumer spending the tournament plugs into — all from FRED.
| Nation | GDP per capita | Population |
|---|---|---|
| United States | $90,027 | 341.8M |
| Canada | $55,698 | 41.7M |
The home state or province of each host city, across all three countries — GDP in USD beside population.
Food & beverage store retail sales, year-over-year, in each US host state (FRED) — who's spending more on eating in.
No live stadium-sales or attendance feed exists, so this is modeled from stadium capacity and documented per-fan benchmarks. Food & beverage is scaled by each host country's local concession price level (Mexico ~½, Canada ~0.95 of the US); FIFA sets ticket prices globally.
Calibrated to published benchmarks (world_cup_2026_economics.md): ~$45/head food+bev, group tickets $150–300, knockouts $700+; AT&T Stadium ~$117M beer cited as a scale peg.
Our model assumes near-sellout crowds. Here's how that holds up against FIFA-official attendance for the matches played so far (via Wikidata), against our stadium capacities.
Across 104 matches played, official attendance totals 6.8M — close to the model's assumption, so the matchday economy is built on a realistic crowd.
Fullest: Levi's Stadium 100.5% · Emptiest: AT&T Stadium 86.6%
The modeled in-stadium food & beverage spend set against the real restaurant & bar economy the host countries run every month (US via FRED, Canada via Statistics Canada).
So the tournament's entire modeled in-stadium food & beverage spend is about 0.26% of a single month of host-country restaurants & bars — the matchday model counts only what's spent inside the stadiums.
🇺🇸 $102.5B/mo · 🇨🇦 $6.2B/mo · as of 2026-06
Macro: FRED, Banxico, Bank of Canada, Statistics Canada, World Bank. Fares: Travelpayouts. Matchday spend is modeled, not measured.