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.

The international poverty line has changed, it’s now $3 a day. Our new article explains what changed in the World Bank's latest update and what the new data tells us about global poverty ⤵️ ourworldindata.org/new-internat...

When discussing data on income inequality, it's important to be clear about what’s being shown. Two measures are often used: income *before* people have paid taxes and received benefits from the government, and income *after* government redistribution via taxes and benefits. 🧵

Check out these really exciting new features! 🌎

Greece is turning its back on coal and replacing it with solar and wind. Today's data insight: ourworldindata.org/data-insight... Data from @ember-energy.org.

Lots of discussion today about regional investment. You can use our @theifs.bsky.social public spending tool to explore how much the government currently spends in each region of the UK, what it spends it on, and how that has changed over time: ifs.org.uk/calculators/...

How can we compare people’s incomes across countries?

International dollars show up a lot in global statistics. But they’re not an actual currency. They are a way to adjust for differences in the cost of living, helping us compare incomes and how far money goes in different countries. Read our new explainer ⤵️ ourworldindata.org/internationa...

NEW: Sure Start generated widespread, long-lasting benefits for children in education, health, absences, and SEND. Every £1 of up-front spending on Sure Start could generate around £2 in total benefits over the long run. THREAD on our new ‪@nuffieldfoundation.org‬-funded report: [1/11]

Measles once killed millions every year. Vaccines changed this, preventing disease, long-term immune damage and deadly outbreaks. In this article @scientificdiscovery.dev & @spoonerf.bsky.social explain how vaccines were developed and their impact on saving lives. ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

For the first time ever, China's CO₂ emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, rather than reduced power demand.

Almost half (48%) of new cars sold in China in 2024 were electric. From the IEA's latest Global EV Outlook. You can explore more data here: ourworldindata.org/electric-car...

What do governments spend money on?

The length of software tasks AI systems can do on their own has been increasing quickly

Check out the updated econ data from the IMF on @ourworldindata.org ⬇️

How many people died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918–1920?

Did you know that many journalists around the world rely on our work for their stories? Giving journalists and others what they need to do good work is a key part of our impact. In a new article, we share how a data journalist at The Economist, @sondreus.bsky.social, uses Our World in Data:

We've updated our data on government spending 📊 You can explore how much countries spend relative to the size of their economies, how this has changed over time, and how spending is split across governments' priorities like health, education, and more: ➡️ ourworldindata.org/government-s...

How many people died in large famines over the past 150 years? 📊 We've updated the data in many of our charts on famine, including a big update from the World Peace Foundation (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social). This update was led on our team by @bastianherre.bsky.social and Veronika Samborska.

What does global poverty look like if we rely on the notions of poverty in rich countries like Denmark, the US, or Germany? And how should this perspective inform our aspirations for the future of global poverty?

Brazil, Venezuela, and Mexico account for 59% of people living in poverty in Latin America

One of my favourite OWID charts has been updated! 🌸 Japan’s cherry trees have been blossoming earlier due to warmer temperatures by @spoonerf.bsky.social

Educators at many levels, from middle school to postgraduate, find our work helpful for their teaching. Check out our recently updated "Teaching with OWID" page for materials, FAQs, tips, and more: ourworldindata.org/teaching And if you have any feedback or suggestions, we love to hear it!

This August, Works in Progress magazine is hosting another 'Invisible College', a week-long seminar for 18-22 year olds in Cambridge. Our lecturers will cover the industrial revolution, science reform, housing, urbanism, and more. Share with students & apply here!

Im 2023, 22% of foreign aid was spent domestically across rich donor countries. In the UK, it was 34%. Most of this went to hosting refugees and administrative costs. You can see the data & read more in the great article by my colleagues @simonvanteutem.bsky.social and @hannahritchie.bsky.social

Latest World Happiness Report finds we underestimate the benevolence of others. Eg the proportion of lost wallets returned to their owners is far higher than people expect worldhappiness.report/ed/2025/exec...

Women tend to live longer than men, but how much longer varies widely around the world 🧵

My latest article on Our World in Data, looking at foreign aid and the difference we can make with personal donations: ourworldindata.org/foreign-aid-...

Today, we have a new page on fertility data on Our World in Data! It has lots of new charts on a wide range of measures such as parental ages at birth, teenage birth rates, twin birth rates, the use of reproductive technologies, and more. Explore it all here: ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate

In a new article, 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

Latest income inequality estimates from the LIS Database. Find more indicators here: ▶️Inequality and Poverty Key Figures www.lisdatacenter.org/lis-ikf-weba... ▶️DART dart.lisdatacenter.org ▶️Our World in Data (OWID) inequality explorers www.lisdatacenter.org/data-access/...

When discussing poverty the focus is typically on monetary poverty. That’s useful — incomes and consumption matter for wellbeing and correlate with many positive things. But even then, monetary poverty gives a partial picture. This article explains the approach of the Multidimensional Poverty Index

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.

A fun one from @scientificdiscovery.dev on our Daily Data Insights at @ourworldindata.org today. Twin birth rates over time. Older mothers and the use of reproductive technologies tend to increase the likelihood of twin births, which is why you see this pattern. ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day. A gigawatt of solar is enough to power approximately 200,000 homes in the US. Pretty cool data insight from Charlie Giattino.

Several members of our team are here on Bluesky! Follow us here: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Global average life expectancy was just 32 years at the beginning of the 20th century. In 2023, the average life expectancy had increased to 73 years. In other words, life expectancy has more than doubled since 1900. Cool insight from @bastianherre.bsky.social: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

Check out this great new video about Our World in Data from @socsci.ox.ac.uk featuring our founder, @maxroser.bsky.social! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCz6EIcSFQ8

An amazing opportunity for students interested in inequality!

Genuinely horrifying. 20 million people receive HIV antiviral treatment from the program annually. Mothers with HIV would transmit it to their infants at birth if not for perinatal antiviral treatment. This should be resumed as soon as possible. Every day of delay means more lives lost.

More than 20 million people receive treatment for HIV through PEPFAR, the US Aid Relief Program. This is being rolled back, and doing so will cost many lives.

Cardiovascular disease mortality has declined in many countries over the past decades. For example, US cardiovascular disease death rates have declined 4x since 1950.