Latest publications

• Mental health – new entry now online

  By Hannah Ritchie — April 23, 2018
• Long-run trends in military spending and personnel: four key facts from new data

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina — April 22, 2018
• Shrink emissions, not the economy!

  By Guest Authors — April 06, 2018
• Does population growth lead to hunger and famine?

  By Joe Hasell — April 03, 2018
• Do famines curb population growth?

  By Joe Hasell — April 03, 2018
• The missing economic measure: Wealth

  By Sandra Tzvetkova and Cameron Hepburn — March 26, 2018
• Why do far fewer people die in famines today?

  By Joe Hasell — March 22, 2018
• Famine mortality over the long run

  By Joe Hasell — March 22, 2018
• How and why should we study ‘economic complexity’?

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Diana Beltekian — March 19, 2018
• What does a famine declaration declare?

  By Joe Hasell — March 12, 2018
• Extreme poverty is falling: How is poverty changing for higher poverty lines?

  By Diana Beltekian and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina — March 05, 2018
• Introducing the Our World in Data ‘Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Tracker’

  By Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser — February 28, 2018
• Measuring education: What data is available?

  By Max Roser — February 23, 2018
• How well do biological gender differences explain the gender pay gap?

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina — February 19, 2018
• Why is there a gender pay gap?

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina — February 19, 2018
• Key facts about the gender pay gap

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina — February 19, 2018
• Is it fair to compare terrorism and disaster with other causes of death?

  By Hannah Ritchie — February 14, 2018
• What do people die from?

  By Hannah Ritchie — February 14, 2018
• When will the world reach ‘peak child’?

  By Max Roser — February 08, 2018
• How many people in the world die from cancer?

  By Hannah Ritchie — February 01, 2018
• Learning for our Millennium? The changing face of education access, quality and uptake in Ethiopia

  By Guest Authors — January 31, 2018