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Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest…
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. Our World in Data publishes an open-access publication where users can understand the state of the world today, where we are making progress and where we are falling behind. Through interactive data visualizations we can see how the world has changed; by summarizing the scientific literature we can understand why. We cover everything from global poverty to natural disasters, education and health; we have 3405 charts across 297 topics. Our World in Data is free, open-source and provided as a public good. It has millions of users every month, and is cited in research and media across the world every day. This allows millions of people to understand the large problems the world is facing, and how we can solve them.
Our World in Data provides free, open-access research and data across global problems, featuring a large collection of charts, datasets, and articles. It emphasizes making data on world-scale issues accessible and openly licensed for broad use.
The platform aggregates and presents data through charts, topic pages, data explorers, and articles. It hosts interactive tools (e.g., population projections) and regularly updated data insights and narratives, all freely accessible and openly licensed for use and redistribution.
Who it’s for: Researchers, policymakers, educators, journalists, non-profits, and students seeking open, citable data and visualizations on global development issues.
Hiring announcements for writers; active community engagement and donation requests; ongoing data updates and new articles
Making diverse, high-quality data easily available to anyone, anywhere
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