Books and written communication have played a crucial role in the spread of ideas and the development of culture. Explore historical data on manuscript and book production.

We just published a major redesign of our work on Biodiversity. Explore all our data and research in one place.

How AI gets built is currently decided by a small group of technologists. As this technology is transforming our lives, it should be in all of our interest to become informed and engaged.

Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do. Little is as important for the future of the world, and our own lives, as how this history continues.

AI is already having a large impact on our world. Explore research and data to understand the trajectory of this important technology.

What do people die from? How do health outcomes and systems vary across the world? Explore data for all countries in our data explorer.

The World Bank has updated the methods it uses to measure incomes and poverty around the world. What does this mean for our understanding of global poverty?

The risk of death from influenza has declined over time, but globally, hundreds of thousands of people still die from the disease each year.

We’ve just published a major redesign of our topic pages. Explore this redesign with our new work on poverty.

Explore data on poverty across the world, and how this is changing over time.

Putting a price on carbon helps us account for the real costs of fossil fuels in the market. Which countries have a carbon tax or trading system?

The Living Planet Index is the biodiversity metric that always claims the headlines. It’s often misinterpreted. How should we understand it?

Many countries ship plastic waste overseas. How much of the world’s waste is traded, and how big is its role in the pollution of our oceans?

Which countries produce the most plastic waste, and how is waste traded across the world?

Hunting and habitat loss drove many large mammals in Europe close to extinction. New data shows us that many of the continent’s mammal populations are flourishing again.

Many more people have democratic rights than in the past. Some of this progress has recently been reversed.

Explore the environmental impacts of hundreds of specific food products.

Explore historical and recent emissions of air pollutants across the world.

It is wrong to think that these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.

How democratic have countries been across the world? And how big are the differences between them?

Explore the key highlights from the UN’s latest release of its world population estimates.