Casual Economics YouTube Stats

@casual_economics · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Casual Economics channel overview

Casual Economics (@casual_economics) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2021. It has 94K subscribers and 5.8M total views across 11 videos, an average of 529K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 530K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 70K views. Over the last 12 months, Casual Economics published 6 videos, and 2 of them (33%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Casual Economics make?

Returbe doesn't have enough recent views to estimate Casual Economics's monthly revenue. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $10, typically $5.5, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $5.5K.

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Upload schedule

Based on its last 11 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (36% of uploads), usually around 01:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 8, 2026.

Casual Economics's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Casual Economics's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• How a Debt Crisis Ruined Greece457K views · Apr 11, 20266.5× typical views
• How The Big Short Actually Happened358K views · Aug 9, 20265.1× typical views
• Ancient Rome: The Worst Economic Collapse in History?83K views · Jun 10, 20261.2× typical views
• The 2008 Financial Crisis in 12 Minutes (Casual Economics)425K views · Nov 7, 20251× typical views
• Japan’s Lost Decade: An Economic Crisis in 16 Minutes223K views · Nov 7, 20251× typical views
• The Great Depression in 12 Minutes (Casual Economics)3.2M views · Nov 7, 20251× typical views
• How Dubai Got So Rich | History of Dubai188K views · Nov 7, 20241× typical views
• How Switzerland Became INSANELY Rich Without Any Resources817K views · Nov 7, 20241× typical views

Latest videos

2 of Casual Economics's last 11 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• How Lee Kuan Yew Built Singapore in One Generation57K views · Oct 8, 20260.8× typical views
• How The Big Short Actually Happened358K views · Aug 9, 20265.1× typical views
• Ancient Rome: The Worst Economic Collapse in History?83K views · Jun 10, 20261.2× typical views
• How a Debt Crisis Ruined Greece457K views · Apr 11, 20266.5× typical views
• Did Norway Create a Perfect Economy?33K views · Feb 10, 20260.5× typical views
• How Did The Great Depression Affect Europe?31K views · Dec 12, 20250.4× typical views
• The 2008 Financial Crisis in 12 Minutes (Casual Economics)425K views · Nov 7, 20251× typical views
• The Great Depression in 12 Minutes (Casual Economics)3.2M views · Nov 7, 20251× typical views
• Japan’s Lost Decade: An Economic Crisis in 16 Minutes223K views · Nov 7, 20251× typical views
• How Switzerland Became INSANELY Rich Without Any Resources817K views · Nov 7, 20241× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5K videos from 653 channels in this niche. 13.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 13K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

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Frequently asked questions

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