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{{Short description|Economist and philosopher}}
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| name = Max Roser
| name = Max Roser
| birth_date = 1983
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1983}}
| birth_place = [[Kirchheimbolanden]], [[West Germany]]
| birth_place = [[Kirchheimbolanden]], [[West Germany]]
| institution = [[Nuffield College, Oxford]]<br />[[Oxford Martin School]]
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| influences = [[Tony Atkinson]], [[Amartya Sen]], [[Angus Deaton]], [[Hans Rosling]]
| influences = [[Tony Atkinson]], [[Amartya Sen]], [[Angus Deaton]], [[Hans Rosling]]
| website = {{URL|http://www.maxroser.com/}}<br />{{URL|http://www.OurWorldInData.org}}
| website = {{URL|http://www.maxroser.com/}}<br />{{URL|http://www.OurWorldInData.org}}
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'''Max Roser''' (born 1983) is an [[economist]] and philosopher who focuses on large [[List of global issues|global problems]] such as poverty, [[disease]], hunger, [[climate change]], war, existential risks, and [[Social inequality|inequality]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/turning-to-big-big-data-to-see-what-ails-the-world/|title=Turning to Big, Big Data to See What Ails the World|last=Rosenberg|first=Tina|date=2015-04-09|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=2015-09-27}}</ref><ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/08/what-does-data-show-about-the-state-of-the-world/|title=What does data show about the state of the world?|website=[[World Economic Forum]]|access-date=2015-09-27}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2015/mar/27/income-inequality-rising-falling-worlds-richest-poorest|title=Income inequality: poverty falling faster than ever but the 1% are racing ahead|last=Roser|first=Max|date=2015-03-27|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=2015-09-27}}</ref>
'''Max Roser''' (born 1983) is an [[economist]] and philosopher who focuses on large [[List of global issues|global problems]] such as [[poverty]], [[disease]], [[hunger]], [[climate change]], [[war]], [[existential risks]], and [[Social inequality|inequality]].<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Akhtar |first=Muizz |date=2022-10-20 |title=Max Roser doesn't want us to lose sight of progress |url=https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23376822/future-perfect-50-max-roser-our-world-in-data |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] |language=en |archive-date=11 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230511125140/https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23376822/future-perfect-50-max-roser-our-world-in-data |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=Dr Max Roser |url=https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/max-roser/ |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=[[Oxford Martin School]] |language=en |archive-date=11 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230511125143/https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/max-roser/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


Roser is professor at the [[University of Oxford]] where he directs the program on global development, based at the [[Oxford Martin School]].<ref name=":7" /> He is the founder and director of the research publication [[Our World in Data]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our World in Data |url=https://repository.gheli.harvard.edu/repository/12126/ |website=Global Health Education and Learning Incubator, Harvard University |access-date=11 May 2023 |archive-date=14 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230514053627/https://repository.gheli.harvard.edu/repository/12126/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
He is the founder and director of the research publication [[Our World in Data]], and a research director in [[economics]] at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/624|title=Dr Max Roser {{!}} People|website=Oxford Martin School|access-date=2019-03-10}}</ref>


== Early life and education ==
== Life ==
Roser was born in [[Kirchheimbolanden]], Germany, a small village close to the border with France. As a teenager he won the German youth science competition Jugend Forscht.<ref>{{Citation|last=GmbH & Co|first=Im Fernsehen|title=Folge 183|url=https://www.fernsehserien.de/tigerenten-club/folgen/183-folge-183-697306|language=de}}</ref>
Roser was born in [[Kirchheimbolanden]], Germany, a village close to the border with France. In 1999, he and a friend won a prize in the German youth science competition {{Lang|de|[[Jugend forscht]]}} with a model of a self-navigating vacuum cleaner.<ref>{{Cite web |last=imfernsehen GmbH & Co. KG |date=3 July 1999 |title=Tigerenten Club Folge 183 Jugend forscht '99 |url=https://www.fernsehserien.de/tigerenten-club/folgen/183-folge-183-697306 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190825114019/https://www.fernsehserien.de/tigerenten-club/folgen/183-folge-183-697306 |archive-date=August 25, 2019 |access-date=August 25, 2019 |website=Fernsehserien.de |language=de}}</ref> ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' reported that he travelled the length of the [[Nile]] from the mouth to the source, and that he crossed the [[Himalayas]] and the [[Andes]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Schmundt |first=Hilmar |date=2016-01-02 |title=Statistiken Frohe Botschaft |language=de |volume=1 |newspaper=[[Der Spiegel]] |url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-140750282.html |url-status=live |access-date=2016-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160207093331/http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-140750282.html |archive-date=2016-02-07}}{{subscription required}}</ref>


He has two undergraduate degrees (in [[Earth science|geoscience]] and [[philosophy]]) and two master's degrees (in [[economics]], and [[philosophy]]).<ref name=":2" /> Roser completed his dissertation in 2011 at the [[University of Innsbruck]] in Austria.<ref>{{Cite news |last=mb |date=February 2016 |title=Gute Nachrichten |language=de |volume=2016 |pages=49 |website=zukunft forschung |publisher=[[University of Innsbruck]] |issue=2 |url=https://www.uibk.ac.at/forschung/magazin/17/seite49.pdf |access-date=11 May 2023 |archive-date=11 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230511125144/https://www.uibk.ac.at/forschung/magazin/17/seite49.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[Der Spiegel]] reported that he travelled the length of the [[Nile]] from the mouth to the source, and that he crossed the [[Himalayas]] and the [[Andes]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-140750282.html|title=Statistiken Frohe Botschaft|last=Schmundt|first=Hilmar|date=2016-01-02|newspaper=Der Spiegel|access-date=2016-02-19|volume=1}}</ref> Roser graduated with degrees in [[Earth science|geoscience]], [[economics]], and [[philosophy]].<ref name=":2" />


==Career==
Inequality and poverty researcher [[Tony Atkinson]] hired Roser in 2012 at the University of Oxford where he collaborated with [[Thomas Piketty|Piketty]], Morelli, and Atkinson.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/files/INET_Highlights_Report_2012-14.pdf|title=INET Oxford Highlights 2012-14}}</ref>
In 2012, inequality and poverty researcher [[Tony Atkinson]] hired Roser at the University of Oxford where he collaborated with [[Thomas Piketty|Piketty]], Morelli, and Atkinson.<ref>{{Cite news |title=INET Oxford Highlights: 2012—2014 |work=The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the [[Oxford Martin School]] |url=https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/files/INET_Highlights_Report_2012-14.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=2019-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824094723/https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/files/INET_Highlights_Report_2012-14.pdf |archive-date=2019-08-24}}</ref> In 2015, he established a research team at the University of Oxford which is studying global development.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Oxford Martin Programme on Global Development |url=https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/global-development/ |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=Oxford Martin School |language=en |archive-date=5 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605202726/https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/global-development/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


Roser is the founder and editor of [[Our World In Data|Our World in Data]], a scientific web publication that has the goal to present "research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems."<ref name="Our World in Data">{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/|title=Our World in Data|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2019-08-24}}</ref>
He founded [[Our World In Data]], a scientific web publication with the goal to present "research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems."<ref name="Our World in Data">{{Cite web |title=Our World in Data |url=https://ourworldindata.org/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222015953/https://ourworldindata.org/ |archive-date=2020-02-22 |access-date=2019-08-24 |website=Our World in Data}}</ref> During the first years he financed his project by working as a bicycle tour guide around Europe.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of Our World in Data |url=https://ourworldindata.org/history-of-our-world-in-data |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320025119/https://ourworldindata.org/history-of-our-world-in-data |archive-date=2021-03-20 |access-date=2019-10-29 |website=Our World in Data}}</ref>


Our World In Data covers a range of aspects of [[Development economics|development]]: [[global health]], [[Hunger|food provision]], the [[Economic growth|growth]] and [[Economic inequality|distribution of incomes]], [[violence]], [[Human rights|rights]], [[war]]s, technology, [[education]], and [[environmental change]]s, among others. The publication makes use of data visualisations which are licensed under [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons]] and are widely used in research, in the media, and as teaching material.<ref name="ourworldindata.org">{{Cite web|url=http://ourworldindata.org/media-coverage/|title=Media Coverage of OurWorldInData.org — Our World in Data|website=ourworldindata.org|access-date=2015-09-27|archive-date=2015-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151104060054/http://ourworldindata.org/media-coverage/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019 he worked with [[Y Combinator]] on [[Our World in Data]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/owid-at-ycombinator|title=Our World in Data is at Y Combinator|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2019-08-24|archive-date=2021-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320025122/https://ourworldindata.org/owid-at-ycombinator|url-status=live}}</ref>
He started working on Our World in Data in 2011. During the first years he financed his project by working as a bicycle tour guide around Europe.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/history-of-our-world-in-data|title=History of Our World in Data|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2019-10-29}}</ref> In 2015 he established a research team at the University of Oxford that is studying global development. About his motivation for this work he wrote "The mission of this work has never changed: from the first days in 2011 Our World in Data focussed on the big global problems and asked how it is possible to make progress against them. The enemies of this effort were also always the same: apathy and cynicism."
=== Motivation ===
Roser said that there are three messages of his work: "The world is much better; The world is awful; The world can be much better".<ref name=":8" /> He listed [[poverty|global poverty]], [[Social inequality|inequality]], [[existential risk]]s, human rights abuse, and humanity's environmental impact among the world's most severe problems.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Die Menschheit war früher viel gewalttätiger |url=http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/593935/1/Alles-wird-gut |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907104358/http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/593935/1/Alles-wird-gut |archive-date=2015-09-07 |access-date=2015-09-27 |website=[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]]}}</ref>


About his motivation for this work he wrote "The mission of this work has never changed: from the first days in 2011 Our World in Data focussed on the big global problems and asked how it is possible to make progress against them. The enemies of this effort were also always the same: apathy and cynicism."<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of Our World in Data |url=https://ourworldindata.org/history-of-our-world-in-data |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=Our World in Data |archive-date=20 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320025119/https://ourworldindata.org/history-of-our-world-in-data |url-status=live }}</ref> He said that "it is because the world is terrible still that it is so important to write about how the world became a better place."<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=Roser |first=Max |date=20 July 2022 |title=The world is much better; The world is awful; The world can be much better |url=https://ourworldindata.org/much-better-awful-can-be-better |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107145209/https://ourworldindata.org/much-better-awful-can-be-better |archive-date=2018-11-07 |access-date=2018-11-07 |website=Our World in Data}}</ref>
The publication covers a wide range of aspects of [[Development economics|development]]: [[global health]], [[Hunger|food provision]], the [[Economic growth|growth]] and [[Economic inequality|distribution of incomes]], [[violence]], [[Human rights|rights]], [[war]]s, [[Technical progress (economics)|technology]], [[education]], and [[environmental change]]s, among others. The publication makes use of data visualisations which are licensed under [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons]] and are widely used in research, in the media, and as teaching material.<ref name="ourworldindata.org">{{Cite web|url=http://ourworldindata.org/media-coverage/|title=Media Coverage of OurWorldInData.org — Our World in Data|website=ourworldindata.org|access-date=2015-09-27}}</ref> The publication has more than 1.5 million readers every month (November 2018).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.similarweb.com/website/ourworldindata.org|title=Ourworldindata.org Analytics - Market Share Stats & Traffic Ranking|website=www.similarweb.com|access-date=2018-11-06}}</ref>


He is critical of the [[mass media]]'s excessive focus on single events which he claims is not helpful in understanding "the long-lasting, forceful changes that reshape our world, as well as the large, long-standing problems that continue to confront us."<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/about|title=About|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2019-08-24|archive-date=2018-10-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005151814/https://ourworldindata.org/about|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/people/view/39|title=Dr Max Roser {{!}} People {{!}} Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School|website=www.inet.ox.ac.uk|publisher=Institute for New Economic Thinking at the [[Oxford Martin School]]|access-date=2015-09-27|archive-date=2015-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919093214/http://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/people/view/39|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Data Stories #57: Visualizing Human Development with Max Roser |url=http://datastori.es/data-stories-57-human-dev-w-max-roser/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929132944/http://datastori.es/data-stories-57-human-dev-w-max-roser/ |archive-date=2015-09-29 |access-date=2015-10-24 |website=Data Stories|date=8 July 2015 }}</ref> In contrast to the event-focussed reporting of the news media Roser advocates the adoption of a broader perspective on global change, and in particular a focus on those living in [[poverty]].<ref name=":1" /> The focus on the upper classes, especially in historical perspective, is misleading since it is not exposing the hardship of those in the worst living conditions.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |last=Roser |first=Max |date=2015-03-27 |title=Income inequality: poverty falling faster than ever but the 1% are racing ahead |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2015/mar/27/income-inequality-rising-falling-worlds-richest-poorest |url-status=live |access-date=2015-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927220437/http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2015/mar/27/income-inequality-rising-falling-worlds-richest-poorest |archive-date=2015-09-27}}</ref>
In 2019 he was listed in second place among the "World’s Top 50 Thinkers" by [[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect Magazine]].<ref name=":5" />


He advocates looking at larger trends in poverty, education, health and [[violence]] since these are slowly, but persistently changing the world and are neglected in the reporting of today's mass media.<ref name=":1" />
== Motivation ==
In 2011 he founded the open-access research publication [[Our World in Data]] as a platform for "research and data on the world's largest problems and how to make progress against them."<ref name="Our World in Data" /> Roser has said that [[poverty|global poverty]], [[Social inequality|inequality]], [[existential risk]]s, human rights abuse, and humanity's environmental impact are among the world's most severe problems.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/593935/1/Alles-wird-gut|title=Die Menschheit war früher viel gewalttätiger|website=[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]]|access-date=2015-09-27}}</ref>

He is critical of the [[mass media]]'s excessive focus on single events which he claims is not helpful in understanding "the long-lasting, forceful changes that reshape our world, as well as the large, long-standing problems that continue to confront us."<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/about|title=About|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2019-08-24}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/people/view/39|title=Dr Max Roser {{!}} People {{!}} Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School|website=www.inet.ox.ac.uk|publisher=Institute for New Economic Thinking at the [[Oxford Martin School]]|access-date=2015-09-27}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> In contrast to the event-focussed reporting of the news media Roser advocates the adoption of a broader, more holistic perspective on global change:<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title = Data Stories #57: Visualizing Human Development with Max Roser|url = http://datastori.es/data-stories-57-human-dev-w-max-roser/|website = Data Stories|access-date = 2015-10-24}}</ref> This perspective means looking at inequality and a particular focus on those living in [[poverty]]. The focus on the upper classes, especially in historical perspective, is misleading since it is not exposing the hardship of those in the worst living conditions. Secondly, he advocates looking at larger trends in poverty, education, health and [[violence]] since these are slowly, but persistently changing the world and are neglected in the reporting of today's mass media.<ref name=":1" /> In his focus on slowly evolving structural changes, and dismissal of the media's "event history", he is following the agenda of the French [[Annales School]] with their focus on the ''[[longue durée]]''.


[[File:Global population cartogram.png| thumb|300px |Cartogram by Max Roser showing the distribution of the global population. Each of the 15,266 pixels represents the home country of 500,000 people.]]
[[File:Global population cartogram.png| thumb|300px |Cartogram by Max Roser showing the distribution of the global population. Each of the 15,266 pixels represents the home country of 500,000 people.]]


He is known for his research how global [[Quality of life|living conditions]] are changing and his [[Data visualization|visualisations]] of these trends.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2015/05/29/heres-how-many-people-have-died-in-war-in-the-last-600-years/|title=Here's how many people have died in war in the last 600 years|website=[[Washington Post]]|access-date=2015-09-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/2015/2/10/8001973/obama-world-getting-better|title=How Obama's optimism about the world explains his foreign policy|date=2015-02-10|website=[[Vox Media|Vox]]|access-date=2015-09-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jutarnji.hr/nova-studija-s-oxforda-o-razvoju-svijeta--nikad-nam-nije-bilo-ovako-dobro-/1231993/|title=Zbog ebole i terorizma čini nam se da je svijet užasan, ali istina je suprotna: Nikad nam nije bilo ovako dobro|website=[[Jutarnji list]]|access-date=2015-09-27}}</ref> He has shown that in many societies in the past a large share (over 40%) of children died.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past|title=Mortality in the past – around half died as children|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2019-08-24}}</ref> Roser maintains that in many important aspects the world has made important progress in improving [[Quality of Life (film)|living conditions]] and documents this by visualizing the empirical evidence for these long-term trends.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/opinion/view/274|title=It's a cold, hard fact: our world is becoming a better place|last=Roser|first=Max|year=2014|access-date=2015-09-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-27/making-a-dent-in-world-poverty-depends-on-india|title=Lowering World Poverty Depends on India|date=2015-10-27|website=BloombergView|access-date=2016-03-12}}</ref>
He is known for his research how global [[Quality of life|living conditions]] are changing and his [[Data visualization|visualisations]] of these trends.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Here's how many people have died in war in the last 600 years |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2015/05/29/heres-how-many-people-have-died-in-war-in-the-last-600-years/ |url-status=dead |access-date=2015-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927185921/http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2015/05/29/heres-how-many-people-have-died-in-war-in-the-last-600-years/ |archive-date=2015-09-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Matthews |first=Dylan |date=2015-02-10 |title=How Obama's optimism about the world explains his foreign policy |url=https://www.vox.com/2015/2/10/8001973/obama-world-getting-better |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151010234326/http://www.vox.com/2015/2/10/8001973/obama-world-getting-better |archive-date=2015-10-10 |access-date=2015-09-27 |website=[[Vox Media|Vox]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rudež |first=Tanja |date=30 October 2014 |title=Zbog ebole i terorizma čini nam se da je svijet užasan, ali istina je suprotna: Nikad nam nije bilo ovako dobro |url=http://www.jutarnji.hr/nova-studija-s-oxforda-o-razvoju-svijeta--nikad-nam-nije-bilo-ovako-dobro-/1231993/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928010500/http://www.jutarnji.hr/nova-studija-s-oxforda-o-razvoju-svijeta--nikad-nam-nije-bilo-ovako-dobro-/1231993/ |archive-date=2015-09-28 |access-date=2015-09-27 |website=[[Jutarnji list]] |language=hr}}</ref> He has shown that in many societies in the past a large share (over 40%) of children died.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roser |first=Max |date=11 April 2023 |title=Mortality in the past – around half died as children |url=https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824094726/https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past |archive-date=2019-08-24 |access-date=2019-08-24 |website=[[Our World in Data]]}}</ref>


=== Research ===
In his most-quoted text he writes "For our history to be a source of encouragement we have to know our history. The story that we tell ourselves about our history and our time matters. Because our hopes and efforts for building a better future are inextricably linked to our perception of the past it is important to understand and communicate the global development up to now. […] Freedom is impossible without faith in free people. And if we are not aware of our history and falsely believe the opposite of what is true we risk losing faith in each other."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts|title=The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2018-11-07}}</ref>

He said that there are three messages of his work: "The world is much better; The world is awful; The world can be much better" and he writes that "it is because the world is terrible still that it is so important to write about how the world became a better place."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/much-better-awful-can-be-better|title=The world is much better; The world is awful; The world can be much better|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2018-11-07}}</ref>

== Research ==
[[File:Global annual CO2 emissions by world region since 1750.svg|thumb|Global CO2 emissions by world region since 1750 – a chart from [[Our World in Data]]]]
[[File:Global annual CO2 emissions by world region since 1750.svg|thumb|Global CO2 emissions by world region since 1750 – a chart from [[Our World in Data]]]]


Roser's research is concerned with global problems such as poverty, climate change, child mortality and inequality.<ref name=":6" /> In 2015 research with [[Tony Atkinson]], Brian Nolan and others he studied how the benefits from economic growth are distributed.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Nolan |first1=Brian |last2=Roser |first2=Max |last3=Thewissen |first3=Stefan |date=2019 |title=GDP Per Capita Versus Median Household Income: What Gives Rise to the Divergence Over Time and how does this Vary Across OECD Countries? |url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b63555b4-bcac-4b94-b4a5-ee27202098b8 |journal=[[Review of Income and Wealth]] |volume=65 |issue=3 |pages=465–494 |doi=10.1111/roiw.12362 |issn=1475-4991 |s2cid=158875885}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Smeeding |first1=Tim |last2=Roser |first2=Max |last3=Nolan |first3=Brian |last4=Kenworthy |first4=Lane |last5=Thewissen |first5=Stefan |date=2018-05-15 |title=Rising Income Inequality and Living Standards in OECD Countries: How Does the Middle Fare? |url=https://jid.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jid/article/view/40351 |url-status=live |journal=Journal of Income Distribution |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=1–23 |issn=1874-6322 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824154954/https://jid.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jid/article/view/40351 |archive-date=2019-08-24 |access-date=2019-08-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Atkinson, Hasell, Morelli, and Roser |title=The Chartbook of Economic Inequality – Data on Economic Inequality over the long-run |url=https://www.chartbookofeconomicinequality.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190920011529/https://www.chartbookofeconomicinequality.com/ |archive-date=2019-09-20 |access-date=2019-08-24 |website=www.chartbookofeconomicinequality.com}}</ref>
Roser's research is concerned with global problems such as poverty, climate change, child mortality and inequality.


He coauthored a major study of child mortality that was published in [[Nature (journal)|Nature]] in October 2019.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Burstein|first1=Roy|last2=Henry|first2=Nathaniel J.|last3=Collison|first3=Michael L.|last4=Marczak|first4=Laurie B.|last5=Sligar|first5=Amber|last6=Watson|first6=Stefanie|last7=Marquez|first7=Neal|last8=Abbasalizad-Farhangi|first8=Mahdieh|last9=Abbasi|first9=Masoumeh|last10=Abd-Allah|first10=Foad|last11=Abdoli|first11=Amir|date=October 2019|title=Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017|journal=Nature|volume=574|issue=7778|pages=353–358|doi=10.1038/s41586-019-1545-0|issn=1476-4687|pmid=31619795|pmc=6800389|bibcode=2019Natur.574..353B|doi-access=free}}</ref> It was the first global study that mapped child death on the level of subnational district (17,554 units). The study was described as an important step to make action possible that further reduces child mortality.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bachelet|first=Michelle|date=2019-10-16|title=Data on child deaths are a call for justice|journal=Nature|volume=574|issue=7778|pages=297|doi=10.1038/d41586-019-03058-6|pmid=31619786|bibcode=2019Natur.574..297B|doi-access=free}}</ref>
In October 2019 he co-authored a study of child mortality. It was the first global study that mapped child death on the level of subnational district.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Burstein |first1=Roy |last2=Henry |first2=Nathaniel J. |last3=Collison |first3=Michael L. |last4=Marczak |first4=Laurie B. |last5=Sligar |first5=Amber |last6=Watson |first6=Stefanie |last7=Marquez |first7=Neal |last8=Abbasalizad-Farhangi |first8=Mahdieh |last9=Abbasi |first9=Masoumeh |last10=Abd-Allah |first10=Foad |last11=Abdoli |first11=Amir |date=October 2019 |title=Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017 |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume=574 |issue=7778 |pages=353–358 |bibcode=2019Natur.574..353B |doi=10.1038/s41586-019-1545-0 |issn=1476-4687 |pmc=6800389 |pmid=31619795 |doi-access=free}}</ref> The study, published in [[Nature (journal)|Nature]], was described as an important step to make action possible that further reduces child mortality.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bachelet |first=Michelle |author-link=Michelle Bachelet |date=2019-10-16 |title=Data on child deaths are a call for justice |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume=574 |issue=7778 |pages=297 |bibcode=2019Natur.574..297B |doi=10.1038/d41586-019-03058-6 |pmid=31619786 |doi-access=free}}</ref>


In research with [[Felix Pretis]] the authors found that the growth rate in CO<sub>2</sub> [[emission intensity]] exceeded the projections of all climate scenarios.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Pretis|first1=Felix|last2=Roser|first2=Max|date=2017-09-15|title=Carbon dioxide emission-intensity in climate projections: Comparing the observational record to socio-economic scenarios|journal=Energy|volume=135|pages=718–725|doi=10.1016/j.energy.2017.06.119|issn=0360-5442|pmid=29033490|pmc=5625523|doi-access=free}}</ref>
He and Felix Pretis found that the growth rate in CO<sub>2</sub> [[emission intensity]] exceeded the projections of all climate scenarios.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Pretis |first1=Felix |last2=Roser |first2=Max |date=2017-09-15 |title=Carbon dioxide emission-intensity in climate projections: Comparing the observational record to socio-economic scenarios |journal=[[Energy (journal)|Energy]] |volume=135 |pages=718–725 |doi=10.1016/j.energy.2017.06.119 |issn=0360-5442 |pmc=5625523 |pmid=29033490 |doi-access=free|bibcode=2017Ene...135..718P }}</ref> With [[Jesus Crespo Cuaresma]] he studied the history of international trade and its impact on economic inequality.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Roser |first1=Max |last2=Cuaresma |first2=Jesus Crespo |date=2012-07-01 |title=Borders Redrawn: Measuring the Statistical Creation of International Trade |journal=Working Papers in Economics and Finance |location=Rochester, NY |ssrn=2111864}}</ref>


Roser has criticized the practice of focusing on the [[Extreme poverty|international poverty line]] alone. In his research he suggests a poverty at 10.89 [[International dollar|international dollars]] per day.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Sterck |first1=Olivier |last2=Roser |first2=Max |last3=Ncube |first3=Mthuli |last4=Thewissen |first4=Stefan |date=5 February 2018 |title=Allocation of development assistance for health: is the predominance of national income justified? |url=https://academic.oup.com/heapol/article/33/suppl_1/i14/2996762 |journal=[[Health Policy and Planning]] |volume=33 |issue=suppl_1 |pages=i14–i23 |doi=10.1093/heapol/czw173 |issn=0268-1080 |pmc=5886300 |pmid=29415236}}</ref> The researchers say this is the minimum level people needed to have access to basic healthcare. The reason for the low global poverty line is to focus the attention on the world's very poorest population.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Hasell |first1=Joe |last2=Roser |first2=Max |date=5 February 2019 |title=How do we know the history of extreme poverty? |url=https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-history-methods |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207002735/https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-history-methods |archive-date=2021-12-07 |access-date=2019-03-04 |website=[[Our World in Data]]}}</ref> He proposes using several different poverty lines to understand what is happening to global poverty.
His research is predominantly concerned with poverty and rising [[Income inequality metrics|income inequality]].<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Roser|first1=Max|last2=Cuaresma|first2=Jesus Crespo|date=2014-12-01|title=Why is Income Inequality Increasing in the Developed World?|url=http://epub.wu.ac.at/4529/1/Roser_Crespo%2DCuaresma_2014_RIW_inequality.pdf|journal=Review of Income and Wealth|volume=62|pages=1–27|doi=10.1111/roiw.12153|s2cid=153341589|issn=1475-4991}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9cb839e2-a314-11e4-9c06-00144feab7de.html|title=Give the middle classes their fair share of the pie|last=Kaminska|first=Izabella|date=2015-01-23|newspaper=[[Financial Times]]|access-date=2015-09-27|issn=0307-1766}}</ref> In research with [[Tony Atkinson]], Brian Nolan and others he studied how the benefits from economic growth are distributed.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Nolan|first1=Brian|last2=Roser|first2=Max|last3=Thewissen|first3=Stefan|date=2019|title=GDP Per Capita Versus Median Household Income: What Gives Rise to the Divergence Over Time and how does this Vary Across OECD Countries?|journal=Review of Income and Wealth|volume=65|issue=3|pages=465–494|doi=10.1111/roiw.12362|s2cid=158875885|issn=1475-4991|url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b63555b4-bcac-4b94-b4a5-ee27202098b8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Smeeding|first1=Tim|last2=Roser|first2=Max|last3=Nolan|first3=Brian|last4=Kenworthy|first4=Lane|last5=Thewissen|first5=Stefan|date=2018-05-15|title=Rising Income Inequality and Living Standards in OECD Countries: How Does the Middle Fare?|url=https://jid.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jid/article/view/40351|journal=Journal of Income Distribution|volume=27|issue=2|pages=1–23|issn=1874-6322}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chartbookofeconomicinequality.com/|title=The Chartbook of Economic Inequality – Data on Economic Inequality over the long-run|last=Atkinson, Hasell, Morelli, and Roser|website=www.chartbookofeconomicinequality.com|access-date=2019-08-24}}</ref> In research publications with [[Jesus Crespo Cuaresma]] he studied the history of international trade and its impact on economic inequality.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Roser|first1=Max|last2=Cuaresma|first2=Jesus Crespo|date=2016|title=Why is Income Inequality Increasing in the Developed World?|journal=Review of Income and Wealth|volume=62|issue=1|pages=1–27|doi=10.1111/roiw.12153|s2cid=153341589|issn=1475-4991|url=http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/12012/1/Why%20is%20Income%20Inequality%20Increasing%20%20in%20the%20Developed%20World.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Roser|first1=Max|last2=Cuaresma|first2=Jesus Crespo|date=2012-07-01|title=Borders Redrawn: Measuring the Statistical Creation of International Trade|location=Rochester, NY|ssrn=2111864}}</ref>


In global health research he studied the impact of poverty on poor health and disease and contributed to a textbook on global health.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Thewissen|first1=Stefan|last2=Ncube|first2=Mthuli|last3=Roser|first3=Max|last4=Sterck|first4=Olivier|date=2018-02-01|title=Allocation of development assistance for health: is the predominance of national income justified?|journal=Health Policy and Planning|volume=33|issue=suppl_1|pages=i14–i23|doi=10.1093/heapol/czw173|pmid=29415236|pmc=5886300|issn=0268-1080}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kohler |first1=Stefan |url= |title=Global Health |last2=Roser |first2=Max |last3=Geldsetzer |first3=Pascal |last4=Bärnighausen |first4=Till |publisher=De Gruyter |year=2021 |isbn=978-3-11-044847-4 |editor-last=Bonk |editor-first=Mathias |pages=523–556 |language=de |trans-title= |chapter=Ökonomie und globale Gesundheit |trans-chapter=Economics and Global Health |doi=10.1515/9783110448474-020 |editor2-last=Ulrichs |editor2-first=Timo |doi-access=free}}</ref> His most cited article, coauthored with [[Hannah Ritchie]] and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, is concerned with global population growth.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=93855cwAAAAJ|title=Max Roser - Google Scholar Citations|website=scholar.google.com|access-date=2019-11-09|archive-date=2022-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220806233437/https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=93855cwAAAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
Roser has criticized the practice of focusing on the [[Extreme poverty|international poverty line]] alone. In his research he suggests a poverty at 10.89 international-$ per day.<ref>Olivier Sterck, Max Roser, Mthuli Ncube, Stefan Thewissen. Allocation of development assistance for health: is the predominance of national income justified? Health Policy and Planning, Volume 33, Issue suppl_1, 1 February 2018, Pages i14–i23, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czw173</ref> The researchers say this is the minimum level people needed to have access to basic healthcare. The reason for the low global poverty line is to focus the attention on the world's very poorest population.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-history-methods|title=How do we know the history of extreme poverty?|website=Our World in Data}}</ref> He proposes using several different poverty lines to understand what is happening to global poverty.


Roser is a regular [[Public speaking|speaker]] at conferences where he presents empirical data on how the world is changing.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=2015-10-15|title=Max Roser WIRED 2015 talk: good data will make you an economic optimist (Wired UK)|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-10/15/max-roser-data-visualisation-wired-2015|magazine=Wired UK|access-date=2015-10-24|archive-date=2015-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018164437/http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-10/15/max-roser-data-visualisation-wired-2015|url-status=live}}</ref> He is part of the Statistical Advisory Panel of [[United Nations Development Programme|UNDP]].<ref>{{Cite web |title={{!}} Human Development Reports |url=http://www.hdr.undp.org/en/towards-hdr-2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101035557/http://hdr.undp.org/en/towards-hdr-2019 |archive-date=2019-11-01 |access-date=2019-11-02 |website=www.hdr.undp.org}}</ref> UN Secretary-General [[António Guterres]] invited him to internal retreats attended by the heads of the UN institutions to speak about his [[International development|global development]] research.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roser |first=Max |date=July 10, 2018 |title=The past and future of global change – Max's slides for his talk at the UN |url=https://ourworldindata.org/max-un-slides |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107010218/https://ourworldindata.org/max-un-slides |archive-date=2018-11-07 |access-date=2018-11-06 |website=Our World in Data}}</ref>
In global health research he studied the impact of poverty on poor health and disease.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Thewissen|first1=Stefan|last2=Ncube|first2=Mthuli|last3=Roser|first3=Max|last4=Sterck|first4=Olivier|date=2018-02-01|title=Allocation of development assistance for health: is the predominance of national income justified?|journal=Health Policy and Planning|volume=33|issue=suppl_1|pages=i14–i23|doi=10.1093/heapol/czw173|pmid=29415236|pmc=5886300|issn=0268-1080}}</ref> He also coauthored a textbook on global health.


[[Tina Rosenberg]] emphasised in [[The New York Times]] that Roser's work presents a "big picture that’s an important counterpoint to the constant barrage of negative world news."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rosenberg |first=Tina |date=2015-04-09 |title=Turning to Big, Big Data to See What Ails the World |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/turning-to-big-big-data-to-see-what-ails-the-world/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230511125140/https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/turning-to-big-big-data-to-see-what-ails-the-world/ |archive-date=11 May 2023 |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=[[The New York Times]] |language=en}}</ref> [[Angus Deaton]] cites Roser in his book The Great Escape.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691153544/the-great-escape |title=The Great Escape |date=2013-09-23 |isbn=978-0-691-15354-4 |language=en |access-date=11 May 2023 |archive-date=11 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230511125143/https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691153544/the-great-escape |url-status=live |last1=Deaton |first1=Angus |publisher=Princeton University Press }}</ref> His research is cited in academic journals including [[Science (journal)|Science]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Nagendra|first1=Harini|last2=DeFries|first2=Ruth|date=2017-04-21|title=Ecosystem management as a wicked problem|journal=Science|volume=356|issue=6335|pages=265–270|doi=10.1126/science.aal1950|issn=0036-8075|pmid=28428392|bibcode=2017Sci...356..265D|s2cid=11224600}}</ref> [[Nature (journal)|Nature]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Topol|first=Eric J.|date=January 2019|title=High-performance medicine: the convergence of human and artificial intelligence|journal=Nature Medicine|volume=25|issue=1|pages=44–56|doi=10.1038/s41591-018-0300-7|pmid=30617339|s2cid=57574615|issn=1546-170X}}</ref> and [[The Lancet]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Mpanju-Shumbusho|first1=Winnie|last2=Woo|first2=Hyun Ju|last3=Wegbreit|first3=Jennifer|last4=Tulloch|first4=James|last5=Staley|first5=Kenneth|last6=Singh|first6=Balbir|last7=Shanks|first7=Dennis|last8=Rolfe|first8=Ben|last9=Roh|first9=Michelle|date=2019-09-21|title=Malaria eradication within a generation: ambitious, achievable, and necessary|url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)31139-0/abstract|journal=The Lancet|language=en|volume=394|issue=10203|pages=1056–1112|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(19)31139-0|issn=0140-6736|pmid=31511196|s2cid=202044083|access-date=2019-09-22|archive-date=2022-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220806233439/https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)31139-0/fulltext|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Yamin|first1=Alicia Ely|last2=Uprimny|first2=Rodrigo|last3=Periago|first3=Mirta Roses|last4=Ooms|first4=Gorik|last5=Koh|first5=Howard|last6=Hossain|first6=Sara|last7=Goosby|first7=Eric|last8=Evans|first8=Timothy Grant|last9=DeLand|first9=Katherine|date=2019-05-04|title=The legal determinants of health: harnessing the power of law for global health and sustainable development|url= |journal=The Lancet|language=en|volume=393|issue=10183|pages=1857–1910|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30233-8|issn=0140-6736|pmid=31053306|pmc=7159296|doi-access=free}}</ref>
His most cited article, coauthored with Hannah Ritchie and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, is concerned with global population growth.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=93855cwAAAAJ|title=Max Roser - Google Scholar Citations|website=scholar.google.com|access-date=2019-11-09}}</ref>


=== Data visualization ===
In 2019 he worked with [[Y Combinator]] on [[Our World in Data]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/owid-at-ycombinator|title=Our World in Data is at Y Combinator|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2019-08-24}}</ref>
The data visualization expert [[Edward Tufte]] repeatedly cited and reprinted the work by Max Roser in his books.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Edward Tufte: Books - Seeing with Fresh E |url=https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/seeing-with-fresh-eyes |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=www.edwardtufte.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Striving for Graphical Excellence with Edward Tufte |url=http://www.askyourdata.co/1/post/2019/03/striving-for-graphical-excellence-with-edward-tufte.html |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=Ask your data |language=de}}</ref>


Roser developed a global cartogram in which the area of each country represents the size of the country’s population. He published it open access and it became widely used in the media (including the FT, The Economist, and in open source applications).[[File:Life expectancy by world region, from 1770 to 2018.svg|thumb|Life expectancy by world region, from 1770 to 2018]]
Roser is a regular [[Public speaking|speaker]] at conferences where he presents empirical data on how the world is changing.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=2015-10-15|title=Max Roser WIRED 2015 talk: good data will make you an economic optimist (Wired UK)|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-10/15/max-roser-data-visualisation-wired-2015|magazine=Wired UK|access-date=2015-10-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.maxroser.com/speaking/|title=Roser Speaking – page|website=www.maxroser.com|access-date=2015-10-24}}</ref> Roser regularly consults private sector companies, governments, and the United Nations on global change. He is part of the Statistical Advisory Panel of [[United Nations Development Programme|UNDP]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hdr.undp.org/en/towards-hdr-2019|title={{!}} Human Development Reports|website=www.hdr.undp.org|access-date=2019-11-02}}</ref> UN Secretary-General [[António Guterres]] invites him to internal retreats attended by the heads of the UN institutions to speak about his [[International development|global development]] research.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/max-un-slides|title=The past and future of global change – Max's slides for his talk at the UN|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2018-11-06}}</ref> [[Bill Gates]] referred to Max Roser as "one his favorite economists".<ref>{{cite tweet|user=BillGates|number=987721112049070080|date=21 April 2018|title=Data nerds like me will enjoy this @planetmoney episode featuring one of my favorite economists, @MaxCRoser.}}</ref>


== Awards ==
[[Tina Rosenberg]] emphasised in [[The New York Times]] that Roser’s work presents a "big picture that’s an important counterpoint to the constant barrage of negative world news." Nobel laureate [[Angus Deaton]] cites Roser in his book [[The Great Escape (Deaton book)|The Great Escape]].
In 2019 he was listed in second place among the "World’s Top 50 Thinkers" by [[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect Magazine]].<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Prospect Team |date=16 July 2019 |title=The world's top 50 thinkers 2019 |url=https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/prospect-worlds-top-50-thinkers-2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828121132/https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/prospect-worlds-top-50-thinkers-2019 |archive-date=2019-08-28 |access-date=2019-08-24 |website=[[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect]]}}</ref>


In 2019 Our World in Data won the [[Lovie Award]], the European web award, "in recognition of their outstanding use of data and the internet to supply the general public with understandable data-driven research – the kind necessary to invoke social, economic, and environmental change."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lovieawards.eu/features/2019-winners-announced/|title=Meet The 2019 Lovie Awards Special Achievement Winners|date=2019-10-07|website=The Lovie Awards|access-date=2019-10-29|archive-date=2019-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016172421/https://www.lovieawards.eu/features/2019-winners-announced/|url-status=live}}</ref>
All his work is available open access.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.maxroser.com/|title=Max Roser – Economist|website=www.maxroser.com|access-date=2019-12-08}}</ref>


In 2021 he received the Covid Innovation Heroes Award "for an outstanding contribution to public understanding for helping people across the world see, and more importantly understand, critical pandemic data."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Covid Innovation Heroes Awards |url=https://theoxfordtrust.co.uk/covid-innovation-heroes-awards/ |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=The Oxford Trust |language=en-US}}</ref>
Roser's research is regularly cited in academic journals including [[Science (journal)|Science]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Nagendra|first1=Harini|last2=DeFries|first2=Ruth|date=2017-04-21|title=Ecosystem management as a wicked problem|journal=Science|volume=356|issue=6335|pages=265–270|doi=10.1126/science.aal1950|issn=0036-8075|pmid=28428392|bibcode=2017Sci...356..265D|s2cid=11224600}}</ref> [[Nature (journal)|Nature]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Topol|first=Eric J.|date=January 2019|title=High-performance medicine: the convergence of human and artificial intelligence|journal=Nature Medicine|volume=25|issue=1|pages=44–56|doi=10.1038/s41591-018-0300-7|pmid=30617339|s2cid=57574615|issn=1546-170X}}</ref> and [[The Lancet]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Mpanju-Shumbusho|first1=Winnie|last2=Woo|first2=Hyun Ju|last3=Wegbreit|first3=Jennifer|last4=Tulloch|first4=James|last5=Staley|first5=Kenneth|last6=Singh|first6=Balbir|last7=Shanks|first7=Dennis|last8=Rolfe|first8=Ben|last9=Roh|first9=Michelle|date=2019-09-21|title=Malaria eradication within a generation: ambitious, achievable, and necessary|url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)31139-0/abstract|journal=The Lancet|language=en|volume=394|issue=10203|pages=1056–1112|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(19)31139-0|issn=0140-6736|pmid=31511196|s2cid=202044083}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Yamin|first1=Alicia Ely|last2=Uprimny|first2=Rodrigo|last3=Periago|first3=Mirta Roses|last4=Ooms|first4=Gorik|last5=Koh|first5=Howard|last6=Hossain|first6=Sara|last7=Goosby|first7=Eric|last8=Evans|first8=Timothy Grant|last9=DeLand|first9=Katherine|date=2019-05-04|title=The legal determinants of health: harnessing the power of law for global health and sustainable development|url= |journal=The Lancet|language=en|volume=393|issue=10183|pages=1857–1910|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30233-8|issn=0140-6736|pmid=31053306|pmc=7159296|doi-access=free}}</ref>


In 2022 he was selected as one of "The Future Perfect 50", as one of 50 scientists and writers who are building a better future.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chittal |first=Nisha |date=2022-10-20 |title=The Future Perfect 50 |url=https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23399287/future-perfect-50-change-agents |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230511125141/https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23399287/future-perfect-50-change-agents |archive-date=11 May 2023 |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] |language=en}}</ref>
[[File:Life expectancy by world region, from 1770 to 2018.svg|thumb|Life expectancy by world region, from 1770 to 2018]]


== References ==
In 2019 Our World in Data won the Lovie Award, the European web award, "in recognition of their outstanding use of data and the internet to supply the general public with understandable data-driven research – the kind necessary to invoke social, economic, and environmental change."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lovieawards.eu/features/2019-winners-announced/|title=Meet The 2019 Lovie Awards Special Achievement Winners|date=2019-10-07|website=The Lovie Awards|access-date=2019-10-29}}</ref>
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== External links ==
Prospect Magazine listed him as one of the "World’s Top 50 Thinkers."<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/prospect-worlds-top-50-thinkers-2019|title=The world's top 50 thinkers 2019|last=Prospect|access-date=2019-08-24}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website}}
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=== Work ===
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* [https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it] – [[Our World In Data|Our World in Data]]
* [https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Max-Roser-three-facts-everyone-should-know Memorizing these three statistics will help you understand the world] – Gates Notes
* [https://ourworldindata.org/limits-personal-experience The limits of our personal experience and the value of statistics] – Our World in Data
* [https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-cartogram The map we need if we want to think about how global living conditions are changing] – Our World in Data
* [https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-cartogram The map we need if we want to think about how global living conditions are changing] – Our World in Data
* [https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2015/mar/27/income-inequality-rising-falling-worlds-richest-poorest Income inequality: poverty falling faster than ever but the 1% are racing ahead] – The Guardian
* [https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2015/mar/27/income-inequality-rising-falling-worlds-richest-poorest Income inequality: poverty falling faster than ever but the 1% are racing ahead] – The Guardian
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* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/29/stop-saying-that-2016-was-the-worst-year/ Why do we not hear the good news?] – Washington Post; December 2016.
* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/29/stop-saying-that-2016-was-the-worst-year/ Why do we not hear the good news?] – Washington Post; December 2016.
*[https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/media/3134/nuffield-magazine-18-web.pdf Inequality is a Choice] – in Nuffield College Magazine, Issue 18. An edition in the memory of Tony Atkinson.
*[https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/media/3134/nuffield-magazine-18-web.pdf Inequality is a Choice] – in Nuffield College Magazine, Issue 18. An edition in the memory of Tony Atkinson.
* [https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it] – [[Our World In Data|Our World in Data]]


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Max Roser
Born1983 (age 40–41)
Academic career
FieldEconomics of income distribution, poverty, global development, global health
InstitutionNuffield College, Oxford
Oxford Martin School
InfluencesTony Atkinson, Amartya Sen, Angus Deaton, Hans Rosling
Websitewww.maxroser.com
www.ourworldindata.org

Max Roser (born 1983) is an economist and philosopher who focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality.[1][2][3]

Roser is professor at the University of Oxford where he directs the program on global development, based at the Oxford Martin School.[3] He is the founder and director of the research publication Our World in Data.[4]

Early life and education

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Roser was born in Kirchheimbolanden, Germany, a village close to the border with France. In 1999, he and a friend won a prize in the German youth science competition Jugend forscht with a model of a self-navigating vacuum cleaner.[5] Der Spiegel reported that he travelled the length of the Nile from the mouth to the source, and that he crossed the Himalayas and the Andes.[6]

He has two undergraduate degrees (in geoscience and philosophy) and two master's degrees (in economics, and philosophy).[6] Roser completed his dissertation in 2011 at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.[7]

Career

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In 2012, inequality and poverty researcher Tony Atkinson hired Roser at the University of Oxford where he collaborated with Piketty, Morelli, and Atkinson.[8] In 2015, he established a research team at the University of Oxford which is studying global development.[9]

He founded Our World In Data, a scientific web publication with the goal to present "research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems."[10] During the first years he financed his project by working as a bicycle tour guide around Europe.[11]

Our World In Data covers a range of aspects of development: global health, food provision, the growth and distribution of incomes, violence, rights, wars, technology, education, and environmental changes, among others. The publication makes use of data visualisations which are licensed under Creative Commons and are widely used in research, in the media, and as teaching material.[12] In 2019 he worked with Y Combinator on Our World in Data.[13]

Motivation

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Roser said that there are three messages of his work: "The world is much better; The world is awful; The world can be much better".[14] He listed global poverty, inequality, existential risks, human rights abuse, and humanity's environmental impact among the world's most severe problems.[1][15]

About his motivation for this work he wrote "The mission of this work has never changed: from the first days in 2011 Our World in Data focussed on the big global problems and asked how it is possible to make progress against them. The enemies of this effort were also always the same: apathy and cynicism."[16] He said that "it is because the world is terrible still that it is so important to write about how the world became a better place."[14]

He is critical of the mass media's excessive focus on single events which he claims is not helpful in understanding "the long-lasting, forceful changes that reshape our world, as well as the large, long-standing problems that continue to confront us."[1][17][18] In contrast to the event-focussed reporting of the news media Roser advocates the adoption of a broader perspective on global change, and in particular a focus on those living in poverty.[18] The focus on the upper classes, especially in historical perspective, is misleading since it is not exposing the hardship of those in the worst living conditions.[19]

He advocates looking at larger trends in poverty, education, health and violence since these are slowly, but persistently changing the world and are neglected in the reporting of today's mass media.[18]

Cartogram by Max Roser showing the distribution of the global population. Each of the 15,266 pixels represents the home country of 500,000 people.

He is known for his research how global living conditions are changing and his visualisations of these trends.[20][21][22] He has shown that in many societies in the past a large share (over 40%) of children died.[23]

Research

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Global CO2 emissions by world region since 1750 – a chart from Our World in Data

Roser's research is concerned with global problems such as poverty, climate change, child mortality and inequality.[2] In 2015 research with Tony Atkinson, Brian Nolan and others he studied how the benefits from economic growth are distributed.[24][25][26]

In October 2019 he co-authored a study of child mortality. It was the first global study that mapped child death on the level of subnational district.[27] The study, published in Nature, was described as an important step to make action possible that further reduces child mortality.[28]

He and Felix Pretis found that the growth rate in CO2 emission intensity exceeded the projections of all climate scenarios.[29] With Jesus Crespo Cuaresma he studied the history of international trade and its impact on economic inequality.[30]

Roser has criticized the practice of focusing on the international poverty line alone. In his research he suggests a poverty at 10.89 international dollars per day.[31] The researchers say this is the minimum level people needed to have access to basic healthcare. The reason for the low global poverty line is to focus the attention on the world's very poorest population.[32] He proposes using several different poverty lines to understand what is happening to global poverty.

In global health research he studied the impact of poverty on poor health and disease and contributed to a textbook on global health.[33][34] His most cited article, coauthored with Hannah Ritchie and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, is concerned with global population growth.[35]

Roser is a regular speaker at conferences where he presents empirical data on how the world is changing.[36] He is part of the Statistical Advisory Panel of UNDP.[37] UN Secretary-General António Guterres invited him to internal retreats attended by the heads of the UN institutions to speak about his global development research.[38]

Tina Rosenberg emphasised in The New York Times that Roser's work presents a "big picture that’s an important counterpoint to the constant barrage of negative world news."[39] Angus Deaton cites Roser in his book The Great Escape.[40] His research is cited in academic journals including Science,[41] Nature,[42] and The Lancet.[43][44]

Data visualization

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The data visualization expert Edward Tufte repeatedly cited and reprinted the work by Max Roser in his books.[45][46]

Roser developed a global cartogram in which the area of each country represents the size of the country’s population. He published it open access and it became widely used in the media (including the FT, The Economist, and in open source applications).

Life expectancy by world region, from 1770 to 2018

Awards

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In 2019 he was listed in second place among the "World’s Top 50 Thinkers" by Prospect Magazine.[47]

In 2019 Our World in Data won the Lovie Award, the European web award, "in recognition of their outstanding use of data and the internet to supply the general public with understandable data-driven research – the kind necessary to invoke social, economic, and environmental change."[48]

In 2021 he received the Covid Innovation Heroes Award "for an outstanding contribution to public understanding for helping people across the world see, and more importantly understand, critical pandemic data."[49]

In 2022 he was selected as one of "The Future Perfect 50", as one of 50 scientists and writers who are building a better future.[50]

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  24. ^ Nolan, Brian; Roser, Max; Thewissen, Stefan (2019). "GDP Per Capita Versus Median Household Income: What Gives Rise to the Divergence Over Time and how does this Vary Across OECD Countries?". Review of Income and Wealth. 65 (3): 465–494. doi:10.1111/roiw.12362. ISSN 1475-4991. S2CID 158875885.
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