Our World in Data

Research and interactive data visualizations to understand the world’s largest problems. Living conditions around the world are changing rapidly. ... (2019)

Adjusted for both population growth and aging, mortality from cancer is falling globally. (2021)

Over the last 10,000 years the world has lost one-third of its forests. An area twice the size of the United States.Half occurred in the last century. (2021)

To transition towards low-carbon energy systems we need low-cost energy storage. Battery costs have been falling quickly. (2021)

This entry presents the empirical evidence of how inequality between incomes has changed over time, and how the levels of inequality in different c... (2018)

Max runs Our World in Data, a small education nonprofit which began the pandemic with just six staff. But since last February his team has supplied... (2021)