The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems. At Our World in Data, we believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. To understand problems, we need data & research. It’s tempting to believe that we can simply rely on personal experience to develop our understanding of the world. But that’s not the case, as our founder Max Roser explains in this essay: https://lnkd.in/gfXAYCH8 Crucial data & research exist, but they’re often hidden behind paywalls, buried in tables, or obscured by jargon. Our mission is to change this, by making the data & insights needed to understand our world accessible & understandable for everyone: https://lnkd.in/gK4AW5NC Our World in Data is a collaborative project & a public good. You can support our mission in many ways: 1️⃣ Explore & share our work, give us feedback to help us improve, & stay up to date via social media or our newsletters. Find all the ways to engage here: https://lnkd.in/dYN6h4_p 2️⃣ You can also build on our work to create something new. We design our work to have an impact beyond what our team can achieve directly. That’s why we use a permissive Creative Commons license & include easy options to share & download our charts & data. 3️⃣ You can also support us with a donation. Reader donations are essential to our work—they give us the stability & independence to deliver more data, charts, & insights on an increasing number of topics, all free & open to everyone. You can give monthly or once here: https://lnkd.in/ehbQmKsh Learn more about our team and work here: https://lnkd.in/ekCudZE Dive deeper into our mission with related articles, including the source of the first chart in this thread: https://lnkd.in/e8yWpst

📊 Data update: We've just updated the data in many of our charts on immigration/emigration! This is data on migrant stocks sourced from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). Previously we only had data up to 2020 — now we have through 2024. Explore all the data here in our Migration, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers Data Explorer: https://lnkd.in/g6kNtNXe

¿Con quién pasan su tiempo hombres y mujeres en EE. UU. a lo largo de sus vidas? Desliza para descubrirlo ➡️ Explora todos los datos y artículos sobre cómo las personas usan su tiempo en el mundo: https://lnkd.in/gbrUx8C4

Who do American men and women spend time with over the course of their lives? Swipe to find out ➡️ Explore all of our data and writing on how people around the world spend their time: https://lnkd.in/gbrUx8C4

📊 Data update: We've just updated the data we show from the World Inequality Database to their latest release. With this data you can explore several measures of income inequality, before and after tax, for countries around the world. Explore all the data here: https://lnkd.in/gmbqYsTy

Most births in Europe are to mothers in their thirties— For many decades, most children in Europe were born to mothers in their twenties. However, since the mid-1970s, there has been a steady increase in the number of women giving birth in their thirties. As the chart shows, since 2015, women in their thirties have given birth to the greatest number of babies; in the same year, it became more common for a woman in her forties to give birth than for women in their teens. Many factors are causing these changes, including women spending more years in education and developing their careers, easily accessible contraception, improvements in fertility treatment, and high childcare costs. (This Daily Data Insight was written by Fiona Spooner.) Explore at what age women are having children in your country: https://lnkd.in/guHF5gqS

Did you know our very own Hannah Ritchie has a podcast? It’s called “Solving for Climate”, and with her co-host, Rob Stewart, they look at such questions as: – Why do we need carbon removal technology? – Why is nuclear energy back in fashion? – How is the energy transition going? ...and much more! Check it out:

Did you know that our very own Hannah Ritchie wrote a bestselling book AND gave a TED talk about it? If you haven't checked them out yet, here are the links! Hannah’s book, Not the End of the World: https://lnkd.in/erU8Yvj2 And her TED talk, “Are we the last generation — or the first sustainable one?”: https://lnkd.in/ecaqkygM

Which countries have contributed the most to historical CO₂ emissions? When we emit carbon dioxide (CO₂) into the atmosphere, most of it stays there for centuries or millennia. This means that CO₂ emitted even a century ago has contributed to the rising temperatures we see today. In other words, how much the climate warms depends on how much cumulative CO₂ is emitted over time. The chart shows the ten countries with the largest share of the world’s historical emissions, based on cumulative emissions from fossil fuels and industry since 1750. The United States has contributed the most, accounting for almost one quarter. This is followed by China and Russia. (This Daily Data Insight was written by Hannah Ritchie.) There are many other ways to understand contributions to climate change. Explore data on annual, per capita, and trade-adjusted emissions: https://lnkd.in/dTxhSSJs

Foreign aid programs have played a crucial role in the fight against polio. In the early 1980s, almost half a million people worldwide were paralyzed by polio every year, most of them children. But since the peak in 1981, the number of cases has fallen by more than 99%. When it comes to foreign aid, most countries spend less than 1% of their national income on it. But even small increases could make a big difference. Read more in the new article by Hannah Ritchie: https://lnkd.in/gESMm4gE