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The baby is sick today. She has a new word - why? - and she uses it when she's in distress, so when she's sick she snuggles up against me and whimpers "why? why? why?" and it is heartbreaking. When she was three days old we got a preliminary test result suggesting she didn't

Maandag krijgt ⁦Max Roser⁩, van ⁦Our World in Data⁩, een eredoctoraat aan UCL en KU Leuven - laudatio door ⁦Gerard Govers⁩. Ik had de eer Roser te mogen interviewen. Een confronterend én hoopgevend gesprek over voorwaardelijk optimisme. demorgen.be/nieuws/drie-ee…

The world is better than you think (but still pretty awful). Finally a Belgian newspaper interviews the great Max Roser from Our World in Data. It's not just the usual neglect of positive stories by the media. Apparently, Max also rarely gives interviews.😉demorgen.be/nieuws/drie-ee…

Global average life expectancy has more than doubled since 1900— We can expect to live more than twice as long as our ancestors in 1900. As the chart shows, global average life expectancy was just 32 years at the beginning of the 20th century. This was a short life by today’s

Yesterday, the day after receiving his honorary doctorate, Max Roser gave a public lecture to a packed Rosalind Franklin aula on his work and aspirations with Our World in Data. Thank you Max, and thanks to what certainly was a highly engaged audience! #kuleuven

I am so very grateful to everyone at KU Leuven and UCLouvain for this extraordinary honour. Receiving an honorary doctorate for my work is something I never would have imagined. I really enjoyed meeting so many students and faculty in Leuven. These days in Leuven were the

Nearly half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture. Of this global agricultural land, 80% is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.

CORE Econ is a really excellent project. They are writing an open-access economics textbook. More than 500 universities are already using it in their teaching. Now they are hiring a Communications & Outreach Officer! I know they are a really nice team.

One thing I admired Americans for was they provided efficient and effective aid for people around the world. I thought this made America great. The President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief — PEPFAR — saved plausibly about 25 million lives and prevented at least 5.5 million

New article by me! I explore the baby boom in 7 charts, including some trends you (probably) didn't know: 1. Birth rates began to rise in the 1930s, before World War II

In 2004, it took the world a year to add one gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day.

Stagnating median income is a problem in some countries. For example in Italy. But many commentators on this platform speak about the experience of the middle class in high-income countries as if this was universally true, and that's not the case.

I was curious to see the data on trade balances and made a map. Countries that have a trade deficit include Japan, Turkey, Ethiopia, Egypt, France, Mexico, Canada, and the US. Australia, Indonesia, Mongolia, Russia, Bulgaria, Italy, Congo, and Ecuador are countries with a trade

I signed the 10% Giving Pledge this year, and this week, I decided to donate 19% of my annual income to global health charities. It's not going to be anywhere near "enough", but I'm happy to do it — scientificdiscovery.dev/p/we-dont-have…

A single dose cuts the chances of measles by about 95% — a second dose reduces the risk further. How effective and safe are measles vaccines? In her new article, my colleague Saloni summarized the findings of a Cochrane meta-analysis. ourworldindata.org/measles-vaccin…

My article has been on the front page of Hacker News all day. Some of the comments from survivors, parents, and friends of children with leukemia, are very moving news.ycombinator.com/item?id=442821…