How do the rights of LGBT+ people vary around the world? 🧵 The first map shows the 38 countries that allow same-sex partners to marry, affirming their right to love and form a family. However, the majority of countries don’t recognize same-sex marriage, or outright ban it.

Interested in demography? You might like our new tool on @ourworldindata.org which lets you see how changes in fertility rates, life expectancy, and migration rates will change future populations. Have a play! You can even do it continent wide. ourworldindata.org/population-s...

Congratulations to the data wizards at @ourworldindata.org who created this elegant tool so you can adjust fertility, mortality & migration rates for any country to see the impact on population sizes & age structures. This is really, really great!! Check it out!! Excellent tool, terrific write up.

Write for us! We’re looking for people to write many more pieces for us at Works in Progress – including on the story behind superglue, why there’s no syphilis vaccine, how gas turbines became efficient, and many more in this post. If you or someone you know would be interested, please pitch us :)

What is the most unequal country in South America? It depends on what metric you look at. One way to measure income inequality is to look at the share of all income that goes to the top income earners.

📊 Data update: How many people live in poverty around the world, and how has that changed over the last decades? The World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) is one of the primary tools we have for answering these questions.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... 🌸

💰We've updated the data on government spending:

Please help share what must be one of the best jobs ever. We are looking for a writer to join @ourworldindata.org to work with our fantastic team including @maxroser.bsky.social and @hannahritchie.bsky.social. £80k - £120k / ideally full time / location flexible ourworldindata.org/hiring-write...

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

Looking to use Claude Code as an applied economist? This excellent series by @paulgp.com covers how to set it up, data analysis and web scraping. Amazing work! Looking forward to the next episodes

Albert Einstein reshaped our understanding of the universe. But what would his chances have been if he'd been born in the Central African Republic, one of the world's poorest countries? And what could the world's poorest children grow up to be if they had his circumstances?

Woo hoo - the world’s biggest census is underway www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What share of income goes to the richest 1% in your country? How about the richest 10% or 0.1%? How has that changed over time? The World Inequality Database (WID) is the leading source for answering questions about incomes and wealth at the very top of the distribution.

How has the world's population changed over the last 12,000 years? What do projections tell us about the rest of this century? We've refreshed four of our most popular static charts that show you answers to these questions, updating them with the latest data from the UN. 🧵

Outside rich countries, widespread informal work means unemployment rates are low— (This Data Insight was written by @eortizospina.bsky.social.) Last year, three-quarters of the world’s countries had unemployment rates below 10%, according to data from the International Labour Organization.

Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world at the beginning of the 20th century— (This Data Insight was written by @eortizospina.bsky.social.) When I first visited Buenos Aires some years ago, I was struck by how grand the city's historic architecture was.

At the turn of the millennium, 2.2 billion people in the world lived in extreme poverty. In international statistics, this means they survived on less than $3 per day (in today’s money). In the two decades that followed, this number more than halved. You can see this decline in the chart.

Teaching economics or social sciences? Concepts like the unemployment rate or labor force participation can be tricky to explain clearly. Our new Work & Employment page breaks these down with clear explanations and visualizations — all free to download and use in your classes and presentations.

✨ We have a whole new page on Work & Employment stats! ✨

Being unemployed isn’t the same as not having a job — at least when it comes to labor statistics. The map shows unemployment rates around the world in 2025. Let’s see what this number captures — and what it doesn’t 🧵

✍️ New article: Tracking historical progress against slavery and forced labor: a long-run data view For much of history, forced labor was widespread and brutal. Tens of millions of people were made to work under the threat of violence or punishment. The situation today is very different.

Was the global decline of extreme poverty only due to China? The share of the world population living in extreme poverty has never declined as rapidly as in the past three decades.

📊 Explore updated data on global development from the World Bank— How are countries around the world developing — in terms of their economies, infrastructure, technology, energy use, healthcare, education, food production, and much more?

📊 Data update: Track measures of poverty beyond income: health, education, and living standards— The experience of poverty goes far beyond having no or low income.

The Syrian civil war has killed hundreds of thousands, displaced millions, and caused poor health and widespread poverty— Most of our work on war and peace focuses on the people killed directly in the fighting.

This is a very nice new short series from @voxdev.bsky.social First episode on conditional cash transfers - looking forward to the next ones 🎬

The world dedicates a Poland-sized area of land to producing liquid biofuels such as bioethanol & biodiesel. Is there a more efficient way to generate energy? Putting solar panels on the land used for biofuels, e.g., would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks worldwide to go electric.

Interested in more data like this? My colleagues have just updated many charts and the main page on Global Education! ✨👇

The world as 100 people over the last two centuries

Explore how other OECD countries spend their budgets: ourworldindata.org/grapher/gove...

✍️We published a new topic page on medicine and biotechnology— For much of human history, people relied on trial and error to find cures for diseases and health conditions using natural plants and remedies, with little idea of which ingredients worked or why.

In most countries, imports from China account for less than 10% of GDP, even where China is the top partner— China is the top source of imports for many countries.

🎯 Our Sustainable Development Goals tracker is now up to date!

Ethiopia imports much more from China than it used to, as do many other African countries— China’s central role in merchandise trade is the result of a large change that has taken place in just a few decades. This change has been especially large in Africa and South America.

📍This is a very nice round up: 10 key insights on development economics in 2025, by Oliver at @voxdev.bsky.social

China is the top import partner for most countries in the world— Over the past two decades, China’s role in global trade has expanded substantially. It has become a central hub, particularly through growing relationships with many lower and middle-income countries.

Just out: ✨ 2025 OWID top of the charts ✨ What is the most viewed, read, shared, downloaded content on @ourworldindata.org ? (link below) Is there any data, topic, or chart you'd like to see featured on OWID next year? Let us know!

📊 Data update: We now show the latest GDP growth projections from the IMF In the spring and fall each year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) publishes its World Economic Outlook. The latest report was published this past October.

📊 Data update: The Penn World Table is an extensive database that helps us understand long-run, global trends in economic growth, working hours, productivity, and living standards. We’ve updated 17 of our charts using the latest release.

In the last decades, the world has made fantastic progress against extreme poverty. In 1990, 2.3 billion people lived in extreme poverty. Since then, the number of extremely poor people has declined by 1.5 *billion* people. 🧵

NBER grants to fund research into economic measurement - I find this agenda very compelling and important #linkoftheday www.nber.org/news/nber-la...

Great to see the new search tool on Our World in Data! It is now *much* easier to find what you want among the thousands of charts and hundreds of datasets we host Really amazed by the colleagues who made this happen ✨

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

Interested in bite-sized, data-driven insights on the world and how it’s changing? Check out our growing catalog of over 350 Data Insights (DIs) — which we’ve just made easier to explore and discover what matters to you!

How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media? Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is. To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.

In a new article, @hannahritchie.bsky.social explains the Wolbachia method and how it promises to finally give humanity an effective tool against several neglected tropical diseases: ourworldindata.org/wolbachia-ne...

A fun chart game that primarily sources its data from Our World in Data!

Launch day 🚀 We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game! Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues! Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈

📚 The new school year is starting in many places. If you’re a teacher, student, or parent, here are a few ways Our World in Data might be useful to you right now 🧵 Our work is used in classrooms around the world — from top universities to local schools.