'The world is awful — The world is much better — The world can be much better', is a short article on why we are building Our World in Data. → ourworldindata.org/much-better-aw… Today I've updated the data and made entirely new visualizations for it, as it is one of my most-read articles.

In China in 1981, 97% of people in the countryside lived in extreme poverty. By 2020, the share was well below 1%. Large economic growth made it possible for hundreds of millions of people to leave extreme poverty behind, first in cities and then in the countryside.

Today, we're excited to roll out our new homepage! Here’s what’s changed, what hasn’t, and some of the thinking behind the new design... 🧵

How much progress has been made toward women’s political equality? How far do we still have to go? For #InternationalWomensDay, I have written an article @OurWorldinData on women’s political rights and representation: ourworldindata.org/women-politica… A thread with the highlights:

How common is war and peace between and within countries? How has this changed? Our new topic page on war and peace @OurWorldinData visualizes major data sources and summarizes both key insights and the data. ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace A thread on what the page has in store:

What can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic about how to publish data better? In a new open-access article for The Lancet Public Health, we @OurWorldinData outline seven key lessons for public agencies and other organizations. A thread of the highlights: ourworldindata.org/key-lessons-fr…

OurWorldInData.org is now exactly ten years old! Huge thanks to everyone who made these beautiful years possible. Most of all, the amazing team that joined me during the last decade to do this work! (I had started working on it some years before 2014, but at that time, my

Huge congratulations to Hannah Ritchie who was just awarded an honorary fellowship by the Royal Statistical Society. In their announcement they say they gave her the lifetime award "for her role as a communicator during the Covid pandemic, as well as for her active voice in

i just released a new whatstk version, v0.7.0! analyse & visualise your whatsapp chats. this release adds support for zipped chat files (default iOS exports) and for python 3.12. release notes: github.com/lucasrodes/wha… install: pip install whatstk

The United Nations has published its latest edition of the World Population Prospects 👪 This is one of the most important datasets on Our World in Data. We’ve updated all the charts that rely on it. The easiest way to dig in is from our Population Data Explorer: ourworldindata.org/explorers/popu…

We're hiring at Our World in Data ! We’re looking for someone with a strong background in economics to join our team as a Research and Data Project Lead. They’ll collaborate closely with our data scientists and help guide the strategic direction of our work in economics —

In its 2022 World Population Prospects, the UN estimated that the global population would peak in 2086 at around 10.4 billion people. This year’s edition, which was just released, brings this peak forward slightly to 2084, with the population topping at just under 10.3 billion.

I think we need to pay more attention to those things that matter every day. Instead our attention gets absorbed by one unusual tragic event after the other. Now it's been a week of reporting on a sailboat disaster. It is a tragedy and I feel for the families. But I don't

One of the reasons I've been quiet on Twitter for a few months is because I've been working on something big - something I'm really happy to share now! Pathoplexus.org A new, open-source database for pathogen sequence sharing. 👐🧬🌎 1/12