The future is vast – what does this mean for our own life?
If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history.
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We just published our new Migration Data Explorer
Explore global data on immigration, refugees and asylum seekers.New Data Explorer: Where do people migrate from and to?
Explore global migration data, country-by-country.Nuclear weapons: Why reducing the risk of nuclear war should be a key concern of our generation
The consequences of nuclear war would be devastating. Much more should – and can – be done to reduce the risk that humanity will ever fight such a war.Why randomized controlled trials matter and the procedures that strengthen them
Randomized controlled trials are a key tool to study cause and effect. Why do they matter and how do they work?In most countries, democracy is a recent achievement. Dictatorship is far from a distant memory
How old are democracies across the world?How we’re building a team for better data at Our World in Data
Data is too often published in a way that’s hard to understand, check and build upon – reinforcing the low valuation it gets in society. Here is how we’re trying to break out of this bad equilibrium.Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead poisoning. What can we do to reduce this?
Estimates suggest that around every third child in the world suffers from lead poisoning. What can we do to reduce this?The history of the end of poverty has just begun
The decline of global poverty is one of the most important achievements in history, but the end of poverty is still very far away.How do key COVID-19 metrics compare to previous waves?
How are confirmed cases translating into hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths now that many have been vaccinated?The IEA wants to make their data available to the public – now it is on governments of the world’s rich countries to make this happen
We are just one step away from unlocking the world’s energy data for everyone. This would be a massive achievement for progress on energy and climate.We just published our new Global Food Data Explorer
Explore the global food system from field to plate, for all countries in the world.Global economic inequality: what matters most for your living conditions is not who you are, but where you are
How much does it matter whether or not you are born into a productive, industrialized economy?How much energy do countries consume when we take offshoring into account?
How do energy footprints compare across the world when we adjust for the goods that we import from overseas?Want to stay up to date on our work? Subscribe to our two newsletters.
We send two regular newsletters so our readers can stay up to date on our work — an immediate update and a biweekly digest.200 years ago, everyone lacked democratic rights. Now, billions of people have them
Half of all countries are democracies. But how many people enjoy democratic rights?Data Review: How many people die from air pollution?
This Data Review presents published estimates of the global death toll from air pollution and provides the context that makes them understandable.How do death rates from COVID-19 differ between people who are vaccinated and those who are not?
To understand how the pandemic is evolving, it’s crucial to know how death rates from COVID-19 are affected by vaccination status.We’ve just published our new data explorer on Natural Disasters
Explore death rates, numbers of people affected, and economic damages from natural disasters across the world.Extreme poverty: How far have we come, and how far do we still have to go?
The world has made immense progress against extreme poverty, but it is still the reality for almost one in ten people worldwide.We’ve just updated all of our data on global CO₂ emissions
Our annual update based on the latest release from the Global Carbon Project. Explore it here.