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We're looking for someone who can take ownership of our in-house visualization tool, the OWID Grapher, and help us bring the data on crucial global issues to life.
Deadline: Sun 16 Oct
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Wildlife is making a comeback in Europe 🦬🦫
Many mammals were in steep decline. Some were close to extinction.
But new data on animal populations over the last half-century shows that many have seen an impressive turnaround.
My new, updated article:
ourworldindata.org/europe-mammal-
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On this page, you can check how officially-reported Covid deaths have compared with excess mortality estimates since the start of the pandemic, for any country in the world: ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess
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In today's edition of our Biweekly Digest, you can learn about:
• Child mortality: 10 children die every minute; we can change this
• Age eligibility for COVID vaccination
• We're hiring a Data Viz Engineer!
Read: mailchi.mp/ourworldindata
Subscribe: ourworldindata.org/#subscribe
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Our team at is looking for a Senior Data Visualization Engineer to take ownership of our in-house visualization tool, the OWID Grapher, and help us bring the data on crucial global issues to life.
Deadline to apply: Sunday 16 October 2022
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Three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet.
A healthy diet is about more than calories—we need foods that give us essential vitamins & minerals, too.
But healthy diets are expensive—more than 4X the cost of a calorie-sufficient one.
Read more: ourworldindata.org/diet-affordabi
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Today is International Democracy Day. So let’s check in on the development and state of democracy in the world.
The world has become much more democratic over the last centuries. But some of this progress has recently been reversed.
A 🧵with some key charts:
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Very excited to say I've just been appointed to the Board of the fabulous which provides long range data on big challenges like poverty and climate change. Hugely looking forward to working with and colleagues
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For a better comparison of recent excess mortality across countries, & just added a 'Cumulative (last 12 months)' option to the 'Excess mortality (count)' and 'Excess mortality (estimates)' sections of our Covid Explorer: ourworldindata.org/explorers/coro
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Public social spending over the long run.
— one of the charts from our work on goverment spending ourworldindata.org/government-spe
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In today's edition of our Biweekly Digest, you can learn about:
• Democracy on the decline
• Newest data on COVID death rates by vaccination status
• Affordability of a healthy diet around the world
Read: mailchi.mp/ourworldindata
Subscribe: ourworldindata.org/#subscribe
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A couple of months ago we started an Instagram account and we just reached 10,000 followers over there.
If you want to follow us, we are here: instagram.com/ourworldindata
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"While the quality of education has improved over time in many countries, there are still large inequalities in learning that mirror—and reinforce—economic inequality." #LiteracyDay 2022
Read more in our recent article: ourworldindata.org/better-learning
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The world has recently become less democratic.
I visualize and describe democracy’s recent decline in my new article for :
ourworldindata.org/less-democratic
A 🧵with the main insights:
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More and more countries achieve to decouple economic growth from CO₂ emissions.
Just made this new chart that shows the evidence for 25 countries. Growth is up, emissions down.
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The share of people living on less than $30 per day, adjusted for the price level in the country.
From 's introductory post on global poverty ourworldindata.org/extreme-povert
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We just added a 'Cumulative (last 12 months)' option to the 'Deaths' section of our COVID-19 Data Explorer: ourworldindata.org/explorers/coro
This allows for a better comparison of recent mortality across countries.
Thank you for the idea!
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This shows the global population of children under the age of 5 – data from 1950 until today, and the UN's forecast until the end of the century.
The global population of children peaked five years ago.
[from our Global Demography Explorer
ourworldindata.org/explorers/popu]
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An issue when comparing the average carbon footprint of food is that it hides the variation *within* a given food.
But the key message doesn't change: the 'best' (lowest impact) meats still tend to emit more than the 'worst' plant-based foods.
ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-s
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brilliantly takes on "longtermism" and its focus on the trillions of future humans.
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Air pollution is responsible for millions of deaths each year.
How are emissions of air pollutants changing across the world? Where are they ⬆️ increasing / ⬇ decreasing?
Explore the data on historical and recent emissions of air pollutants: ourworldindata.org/explorers/air-
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The book that inspired much of 's article on longtermism (ourworldindata.org/longtermism) is now available: What We Owe the Future by .
Check it out: barnesandnoble.com/w/what-we-owe-
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The transformed dataset that powers 's Monkeypox Data Explorer is available in this GitHub repo: github.com/owid/monkeypox
In this file we make available 7-day averages and per-capita figures.
All the underlying data still comes from .
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200 years ago, everyone lacked democratic rights. Now, billions of people have them.
Yet even within democracies there are still differences in the degree to which citizens enjoy political rights.
In this article we take a closer look: ourworldindata.org/democratic-wor
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9 deaths from monkeypox have been reported since May 2022.
You can now track confirmed deaths in our monkeypox data explorer: ourworldindata.org/monkeypox
(This data is collected by the team at .)
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Social connections are one of the most important factors for your happiness and health.
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Here's the latest data from the US CDC on Covid vaccine effectiveness, with individuals categorized from unvaccinated (0 dose) to 2 boosters.
During the last week of May, a full primary vaccination + 2 boosters meant a risk of death cut by 96% compared to unvaccinated people.
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In today's edition of our Biweekly Digest, you can read about:
• How "The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better."
• Democratic rights
• COVID boosters
• Friends & happiness
Read: mailchi.mp/ourworldindata
Subscribe: ourworldindata.org/#subscribe
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Access to clean drinking water, sanitation, and handwashing facilities is a very basic human need. Yet billions still go without.
We're making progress toward the goal of universal access, but it's been slow, and there's still a long way to go: ourworldindata.org/water-sanitati
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"What’s frustrating about the challenge of climate change is not that we have no options, but that we do not take the options we have.”
writes in his 'The Argument for a Carbon Price' → ourworldindata.org/carbon-price
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In today's edition of our Biweekly Digest, you can learn about:
• Population, mortality, fertility + more
• Democracy
• Guinea worm disease
• COVID cases
• Access to clean water & sanitation
Read here: mailchi.mp/ourworldindata
Subscribe here: ourworldindata.org/#subscribe
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64,000 retweets and 365,000 likes. This might be the most widely shared chart ever.
If you want to know "what's going on here", this is our post from which this chart is taken: ourworldindata.org/us-life-expect
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We've now passed 10,000 total confirmed cases of monkeypox since early May.
Daily cases are still increasing – close to 500 per day on average now.
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It's #WorldPopulationDay and the UN has just released its new World Population Prospects for 2022.
At we've built a new population data explorer for you to explore it all: ourworldindata.org/explorers/popu
🧵👇A thread with some of the highlights:
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The UN releases an update of its World Population Prospects every 2 years.
Its latest release was due in 2021 but was delayed because of the pandemic.
But today, the long-awaited dataset has been released! And we've built this tool to let you explore it: ourworldindata.org/explorers/popu
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In the late 1980s, nearly a million cases of guinea worm disease worldwide. In 2021, only 15. Education, safe drinking water, and a lot of cooperative work. Well done!
bit.ly/3O2HDq1
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Our monkeypox data explorer now includes a "Relative to population" option to visualize cases per million people.
Explore the data (collected by ): ourworldindata.org/explorers/monk
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Would you like to learn more about democracy?
Try our new Democracy Data Explorer!
ourworldindata.org/explorers/demo
It provides several hundred interactive visualizations from eight leading democracy datasets.
A 🧵about what it includes:
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