Ocean Plastic Emissions by Country

Global deforestation peaked in the 1980s. Can we bring it to an end?

Three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet

U.S. per capita carbon emissions are lower now than in 1918

The price of batteries has declined by 97% in the last three decades

How do we know the history of extreme poverty?

Plant-based diet would reduce agricultural land use from 4 to 1B hectares

Is soy a key driver of deforestation

Excess mortality from March to December of 2020

Who Americans spend their time with, by age

How People Across the World Spend Their Time and What it Tells us About Living Conditions

Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?

Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries?

Why do Covid-19 deaths in Sweden always appear to decrease

Is It Too Late to Stop Climate Change?

Our World in Data: Suicide

The Spanish flu (1918-20): The global impact of the largest influenza pandemic in history

Plastic Pollution

Happiness and Life Satisfaction (2017)

How our crop yields have changed over the long term: we now produce the same aggregate crop yield in 30% of the land it took us 50 years ago

Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

How common was it for parents to lose a child?

What are children dying from and what can we do about it?

Are we happier when we spend more time with others?

There are now more people over 64 than children younger than 5

Two centuries of rapid global population growth will come to an end

CO₂ and Other Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Death rates from energy production per TWh

Does the news reflect what we die from?

World Population Growth

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