Our latest work

• Global education quality in 4 charts

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina — July 27, 2018
• Our World in Data for teaching – what we are learning from your feedback

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina — July 23, 2018
• Smallpox is the only human disease to be eradicated – here’s how the world achieved it

  By Sophie Ochmann and Hannah Ritchie — July 20, 2018
• The past and future of global change – Max’s slides for his talk at the UN

  By Max Roser — July 10, 2018
• Global education: 7 slide decks with key charts on progress and challenges

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina — July 03, 2018
• Introducing our new and improved ‘Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Tracker’

  By Hannah Ritchie — June 28, 2018
• How is literacy measured?

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Diana Beltekian — June 08, 2018
• International trade data: why doesn’t it add up?

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Diana Beltekian — June 05, 2018
• What’s happening to life expectancy in Britain?

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Hannah Ritchie — May 31, 2018
• How common is alcohol and drug dependency across the world?

  By Hannah Ritchie — May 16, 2018
• Global mental health: five key insights which emerge from the data

  By Hannah Ritchie — May 16, 2018
• How is the world doing in its fight against vaccine preventable diseases?

  By Samantha Vanderslott — April 24, 2018
• Long-run trends in military spending and personnel: four key facts from new data

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina — April 22, 2018
• Does population growth lead to hunger and famine?

  By Joe Hasell — April 03, 2018
• Do famines curb population growth?

  By Joe Hasell — April 03, 2018
• The missing economic measure: Wealth

  By Sandra Tzvetkova and Cameron Hepburn — March 26, 2018
• Shrink emissions, not the economy

  By Guest Authors — March 25, 2018
• Why do far fewer people die in famines today?

  By Joe Hasell — March 22, 2018
• Famine mortality over the long run

  By Joe Hasell — March 22, 2018
• How and why should we study ‘economic complexity’?

  By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Diana Beltekian — March 19, 2018
• What does a famine declaration declare?

  By Joe Hasell — March 12, 2018