In many countries, people breathe the cleanest air in centuries. What can the rest of the world learn from this?
Air pollution tends to get worse before it gets better, but how can we accelerate this transition?
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Our founder, Max Roser, has received two prestigious honors
An honorary doctorate from KU Leuven & UCLouvain and a “Dove of Peace” in Germany.If we can make maternal deaths as rare as in the healthiest countries, we can save 275,000 mothers each year
Maternal mortality was much more common in the past. It is much lower today, but global inequalities are still large.Watch our founder, Max Roser, share the story of Our World in Data
Check out the new video from Oxford Social Sciences, where Max shares his journey with this project.How much in subsidies do fossil fuels receive?
Estimates range from less than $1 trillion to $7 trillion. Where do these numbers come from?Introducing our new trustees, Claire Melamed and Michael Blastland
We are very excited to share that Claire Melamed and Michael Blastland have joined our Board of Trustees.Scaling up: how increasing inputs has made artificial intelligence more capable
The path to recent advanced AI systems has been more about building larger systems than making scientific breakthroughs.The great global redistributor we never hear about: money sent or brought back by migrants
Migrants send or bring back over three times the amount of global foreign aid. Cutting transaction fees could make this support even more effective in reducing poverty.Who would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over different decades, and what do long-term prices tell us about resource scarcity?
In the 1980s, economist Julian Simon won his bet with biologist Paul Ehrlich on mineral prices. But what does the long-term data tell us about supply and demand for resources?Antibiotics transformed medicine but face challenges from resistance and misuse
Antibiotics revolutionized medicine, but their effectiveness is threatened by resistance. This new page presents global data and research on antibiotics and antibiotic resistance.What was the Golden Age of Antibiotics, and how can we spark a new one?
Many antibiotics were developed during the “Golden Age of Antibiotics”. How did it happen, why has antibiotic development slowed down since then, and what can we do to reignite it?How do antibiotics work, and how does antibiotic resistance evolve?
To use antibiotics more effectively, it’s important to know how different antibiotics work and how antibiotic resistance can evolve and spread.Most international migrants don’t move very far from their home countries
Long-distance moves are becoming more common, but they remain the exception. For most, international migration still means crossing a nearby border, not an ocean.Large amounts of antibiotics are used in livestock, but several countries have shown this doesn’t have to be the case
Overuse is a risk for antibiotic resistance, but there are ways to reduce it.Public data on antibiotic use in livestock is incomplete, making it difficult to track how much is used and where
Many countries refuse to share their data, which is a risk for antimicrobial resistance.US airlines transported passengers for 2.4 light-years without a crash
Sometimes, the most important news is when something isn’t happening.Billions of people suffer from anemia, but there are cheap ways to reduce this
In some countries, most children and pregnant women are anemic. There are low-cost ways to tackle this.We've made it much easier to reuse our data
An overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API.We now have an Instagram account in Spanish!
¡Ya tenemos una cuenta de Instagram en español!17 key charts to understand the COVID-19 pandemic
The pandemic has resulted in over twenty million deaths. In this article, we review the key insights from global data on COVID-19.How our team at Our World in Data became a global data source on COVID-19
Our small team made COVID-19 data clear, reliable, and accessible to a global audience. This is how it happened.