People around the world have gained democratic rights, but some have many more rights than others
How democratic have countries been across the world? And how big are the differences between them?
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Five key findings from the 2022 UN Population Prospects
Explore the key highlights from the UN’s latest release of its world population estimates.We just published our new Population and Demography Data Explorer
Explore data on population, fertility rates, life expectancy, deaths and other demographic data across the world.Guinea worm disease is close to being eradicated – how was this progress achieved?
In the late 1980s, there were near a million new cases of guinea worm disease recorded worldwide. In 2021, there were only 15. How was this achieved?We just published our Democracy Data Explorer
Explore the world’s political systems with the leading approaches of measuring democracy.How does the land use of different electricity sources compare?
All energy production takes up land, but which sources use the most land, and which use it most efficiently?We need more testing to eradicate polio worldwide
The world is close to eradicating polio, but has been set back in the last few years. To achieve the goal of global eradication, it's crucial to improve testing.Millions of children learn only very little. How can the world provide a better education to the next generation?
Research suggests that many children – especially in the world’s poorest countries – learn only very little in school. What can we do to improve this?Ending our COVID-19 testing data updates
As of 23 June 2022, we will no longer add new data points to our COVID-19 testing dataset. We will continue updates of all other metrics in our COVID-19 dataset.After millennia of agricultural expansion, the world has passed ‘peak agricultural land’
The world produces more food than ever, but the amount of land we use is now falling. This means we can feed more people while restoring wild habitat.We just published a data explorer on the Monkeypox outbreak
Explore the latest reported data on the 2022 Monkeypox outbreak, produced by the Global.health team.What is the lifetime risk of depression?
Depression is one of the world’s most common health conditions. It's estimated that one-in-three women and one-in-five men have an episode of major depression by the age of 65.What share of people say they are vegetarian, vegan, or flexitarian?
Most people still eat some meat, but surveys suggest that many are adopting a diet with less animal products.The largest mammals have always been at the greatest risk of extinction – this is still the case today
Humans hunted many of the world’s large mammals to extinction. This threat still exists today, but it doesn’t have to be that way.We just did our annual update of global Polio data
The world is close to eradicating polio. Explore the latest data on polio cases in 2021.Humans destroyed forests for thousands of years — we can become the first generation that achieves a world in which forests expand
Why has humanity destroyed such vast forests? And how can we bring this to an end?We just published our IPCC Climate Scenario Explorer
Explore the assumptions of global shared socioeconomic pathways used in IPCC scenarios.We just did our annual update of global electricity data
Explore how electricity sources changed across the world in 2021.War in Ukraine
Explore our data and resources which are relevant context for the war in Ukraine.At what age do people experience depression for the first time?
People are being diagnosed with depression at an earlier age than in the past because of increased openness to mental health disorders and improved diagnostic guidelines.Increasing agricultural productivity across Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the most important problems this century
Agricultural productivity across Sub-Saharan Africa needs to improve to reduce hunger, poverty, and the destruction of biodiversity.