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Our World in Data
A free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and help solve them.
About Our World in Data
Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on. Thanks to the work of thousands of researchers around the world who dedicate their lives to it, we often have a good understanding of how it is possible to make progress against the large problems we are facing. The world has the resources to do much better and reduce the suffering in the world. We believe that a key reason why we fail to achieve the progress we are capable of is that we do not make enough use of this existing research and data: the important knowledge is often stored in inaccessible databases, locked away behind paywalls and buried under jargon in academic papers. The goal of our work is to make the knowledge on the big problems accessible and understandable. As we say on our homepage, Our World in Data is about Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
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Our World in Data published a chart showing nine African countries achieving economic growth with average incomes more than doubling since 1990.
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Our World in Data published an extensive study on the burden of childhood malaria following over 100 children in Senegal for decades.
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Our World in Data published data showing that five countries had more women than men in parliament in 2025.
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Our World in Data published a data insight showing that in 2024, around 18.5 million people born in India lived abroad, with nearly half of those living abroad in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and other Gulf countries.
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Our World in Data published research showing that the US Census Bureau estimated $4.4 billion was spent in June 2026 alone on building data centers, representing a 5-fold increase compared to November 2022.
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Our World in Data colleague Mojmír Vinkler updated more than 400 of the company's charts with the latest release from the World Bank, July 2026 World Development Indicators.
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Our World in Data published a new article stating that beef production in Brazil has been the largest driver of global deforestation in recent decades, with 41% of deforestation this century driven by domestic demand.
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