Our latest work

• How urban is the world?

  By Hannah Ritchie — September 27, 2018
• Now it is possible to take stock – did the world achieve the Millennium Development Goals?

  By Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser — September 20, 2018
• The map we need if we want to think about how global living conditions are changing

  By Max Roser — September 12, 2018
• FAQs on Plastics

  By Hannah Ritchie — September 02, 2018
• New Teaching Notes from Our World in Data

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina — August 29, 2018
• Why do women live longer than men?

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Diana Beltekian — August 14, 2018
• ¿Por qué las mujeres viven más que los hombres?

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina — August 14, 2018
• Why is carbon pricing in some countries more successful than in others?

  By Guest Authors — August 10, 2018
• Most of us are wrong about how the world has changed (especially those who are pessimistic about the future)

  By Max Roser — July 27, 2018
• Global education quality in 4 charts

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina — July 27, 2018
• Our World in Data for teaching – what we are learning from your feedback

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina — July 23, 2018
• Smallpox is the only human disease to be eradicated – here’s how the world achieved it

  By Sophie Ochmann and Hannah Ritchie — July 20, 2018
• The past and future of global change – Max’s slides for his talk at the UN

  By Max Roser — July 10, 2018
• Global education: 7 slide decks with key charts on progress and challenges

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina — July 03, 2018
• Introducing our new and improved ‘Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Tracker’

  By Hannah Ritchie — June 28, 2018
• How is literacy measured?

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Diana Beltekian — June 08, 2018
• International trade data: why doesn’t it add up?

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Diana Beltekian — June 05, 2018
• What’s happening to life expectancy in Britain?

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Hannah Ritchie — May 31, 2018
• How common is alcohol and drug dependency across the world?

  By Hannah Ritchie — May 16, 2018
• Global mental health: five key insights which emerge from the data

  By Hannah Ritchie — May 16, 2018
• How is the world doing in its fight against vaccine preventable diseases?

  By Samantha Vanderslott — April 24, 2018