Our World in Data

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Data to understand the big global problems and research that helps to make progress against them. Based out of & founded by

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  1. 12 hours ago

    What matters most for your living conditions is the good or bad luck of your place of birth. This is a consequence of the vast global inequality in health, education, income, and ultimately opportunity. 's new post:

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  2. Aug 27

    More than half a million children die from diarrheal diseases a year. Rotavirus is the leading cause. But there's an effective vaccine against it. The latest post of our Child Mortality series looks at the potential of the vaccine to prevent more deaths:

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  3. Aug 19

    More than half a million children die each year from diarrheal diseases. How do we prevent this? The latest post in our Child Mortality series:

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  4. Aug 11

    What are children dying from and what can we do about it?

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  5. Aug 10

    Where in the world are children dying?

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  6. Aug 9

    Reducing child mortality is one of the most important aspects of global development. In the coming weeks & months we'll be running a series of posts focusing on the deaths of children: where they're dying; what from; & how we prevent them Our intro post:

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  7. Aug 8

    How does the sex ratio at birth vary across the world? We'd expect around 105 boys per 100 girls: there are biological reasons for this male bias But preference for a son in some countries means ratio is more skewed than we'd expect Our recent post:

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  8. Aug 6

    Across several countries, skepticism on the safety & effectiveness of vaccines is high. In France 1-in-3 disagrees that vaccines are safe. In our recent post looks at whether skepticism has an impact on uptake and what we can do about it.

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  9. Aug 6

    How does support for vaccination vary across the world? In our latest post we summarize the results from the Wellcome Trust's Global Monitor on attitudes to the importance, safety & effectiveness of vaccination country-by-country.

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  10. Aug 5

    Our World in Data is hiring! We are looking for a global health and population science post-doctoral researcher, based at One of our researchers wrote a short post on what it's like to work with us:

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  11. Jul 23

    Are we happier when we spend more time with others? Studies suggest social relations are key factor in happiness & life satisfaction. This may also help explain the paradoxical result where actively pursuing happiness can apparently end up decreasing it

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  12. Jul 21

    News headlines often report "loneliness is as lethal as smoking 15 cigarettes per day" That’s huge: 15 is the average for a smoker & 6 million early deaths attributed to smoking globally every year. In our latest post we look at the evidence for this:

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  13. Jul 17

    By 2100 the UN projects that 83% of the world population will live in Asia & Africa. Largest growth will be in Africa, with its share projected to increase from 17% to 40% in 2100. Our latest post:

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  14. Jun 25

    Does democracy lead to better health? There is a cross-country correlation between democracy (elections, freedom of expression etc) & health In our latest post we take a look at these correlations & whether there is good evidence to suggest causality:

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  15. Jun 19

    World population has grown rapidly – particularly over the past century. But three centuries of growth will come to an end. In our latest post we look at how world population has changed & what to expect in the coming decades:

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  16. Jun 14

    What were the chances of surviving childhood in the past? For millennia, 1-in-4 died in the first year of life; half did not reach puberty. Our recent post:

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  17. Jun 3

    What people die from, what they Google, and what the media covers. Our latest post:

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  18. May 29

    Half a century ago the average woman in the world had 5 children. This figure has halved since then. But the world population is still growing. Why? Our latest short post explains:

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  19. May 28

    15,000 children die every day. Child mortality is an everyday tragedy of enormous scale that rarely makes the headlines – it should make the headlines every day. A short post:

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  20. May 24

    The world is ageing. For the first time there are more people over 64 years old than children younger than 5 in the world. Our latest post:

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