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[[File:Two-centuries-World-as-100-people.png|thumb|Compilation of graphs from the organization, showing the overall global percentages of the last two centuries, in six factors: Extreme poverty, democracy, basic education, vaccination, literacy, child mortality.]]


'''Our World in Data''' ('''OWID''') is a scientific [[Electronic publishing|online publication]] that focuses on large [[List of global issues|global problems]] such as [[poverty]], [[disease]], [[hunger]], [[climate change]], [[war]], [[existential risks]], and [[Social inequality|inequality]].
'''Our World in Data''' ('''OWID''') is a scientific [[Electronic publishing|online publication]] that focuses on large [[List of global issues|global problems]] such as [[poverty]], [[disease]], [[hunger]], [[climate change]], [[war]], [[existential risks]], and [[Social inequality|inequality]].


It is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a registered charity in England and Wales,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/about|title=About|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2019-08-23}}</ref> and founded by [[Max Roser]], a social [[historian]] and development economist. The research team is based at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Oxford Martin Programme on Global Development|url=https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/global-development/|access-date=2019-06-05|website=Oxford Martin School}}</ref>
It is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a [[registered charity]] in England and Wales,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/about|title=About|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2019-08-23|archive-date=5 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005151814/https://ourworldindata.org/about|url-status=live}}</ref> and was founded by [[Max Roser]], a social [[historian]] and development economist. The research team is based at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Oxford Martin Programme on Global Development|url=https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/global-development/|access-date=2019-06-05|website=Oxford Martin School|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> The organization is chaired by [[Hetan Shah]].


== Content ==
== Content ==
[[File:Global annual CO2 emissions by world region since 1750.svg|thumb|upright=1.35|Global {{CO2}} emissions by world region since 1750]]


Our World in Data uses interactive charts and maps to illustrate research findings, often taking a long-term view to show how global [[living conditions]] have changed over time.
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Our World in Data's mission is to publish “research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems”.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Why do we need to know about progress if we are concerned about the world's large problems?|url=https://ourworldindata.org/problems-and-progress|access-date=2021-07-21|website=Our World in Data}}</ref>


The web publication uses interactive charts and maps to illustrate research findings often taking a long-term view to show how global [[living conditions]] have changed over time.


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== History ==
Two-centuries-World-as-100-people.png|Compilation of graphs from the organization, showing the overall global percentages of the last two centuries, in six factors: extreme poverty, democracy, basic education, vaccination, literacy, and child mortality


Global annual CO2 emissions by world region since 1750.svg|Global {{CO2}} emissions by world region since 1750
=== 2011 to 2019 ===
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Roser began his work on the project in 2011,<ref name=":0">{{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> adding a research team at the [[University of Oxford]] later on. In the first years Roser developed the publication together with inequality researcher Sir [[Tony Atkinson]].<ref name=":0" />
Global population cartogram.png|Cartogram showing the distribution of the global population. Each of the 15,266 pixels represents the home country of 500,000 people.
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As of April 2024, Our World in Data categorize their charts and articles by the following topics on their website:<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Data |first=Our World in |last2=Roser |first2=Max |date=2024-03-25 |title=OWID Homepage |url=https://ourworldindata.org/ |journal=Our World in Data}}</ref>
[[Hannah Ritchie]] joined Our World in Data in 2017 and became Head of Research.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Vaughan|first=Adam|title=Hannah Ritchie interview: The woman giving covid-19 data to the world|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2278673-hannah-ritchie-interview-the-woman-giving-covid-19-data-to-the-world/|access-date=2021-07-21|website=New Scientist|language=en-US}}</ref>


* Population and Demographic Change
In early 2019, Our World in Data was one of only 3 [[nonprofit organization]]s in [[Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator's]] Winter 2019 cohort.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/our-world-in-data/|title=YC-backed Our World in Data wants you to know what's changing about the planet|website=TechCrunch|access-date=2019-01-23}}</ref><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=2019-01-26}}</ref>
* Health
* Energy and Environment
* Food and Agriculture
* Poverty and Economic Development
* Education and Knowledge
* Innovation and Technological Change
* Living Conditions, Community, and Wellbeing
* Human Rights and Democracy
* Violence and War


== History ==
In 2019, [[Tyler Cowen]] and [[Patrick Collison]] called for a new academic discipline of 'Progress Studies' that institutionalizes the mission of Our World in Data.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://patrickcollison.com/work|title=Work · Patrick Collison|website=patrickcollison.com|access-date=2019-09-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-new-science-progress/594946/|title=We Need a New Science of Progress|last=Cowen|first=Patrick Collison, Tyler|date=2019-07-30|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-22}}</ref>


Roser began his work on the project in 2011,<ref name=":0">{{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|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> adding a research team at the [[University of Oxford]] later on. In the first years, Roser developed the publication together with inequality researcher Sir [[Tony Atkinson]].<ref name=":0" /> [[Hannah Ritchie]] joined in 2017 and became Head of Research.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Vaughan|first=Adam|title=Hannah Ritchie interview: The woman giving covid-19 data to the world|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2278673-hannah-ritchie-interview-the-woman-giving-covid-19-data-to-the-world/|access-date=2021-07-21|website=New Scientist|language=en-US|archive-date=21 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721121048/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2278673-hannah-ritchie-interview-the-woman-giving-covid-19-data-to-the-world/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Edouard Mathieu]] joined in 2020 and became Head of Data.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Edouard Mathieu: An Open Data Approach to Solving the World's Problems|url=https://ten7.com/podcast/episode/edouard-mathieu-open-data-approach-solving-worlds-problems|access-date=2021-10-05|website=TEN7|language=en-US|archive-date=31 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031085439/https://ten7.com/podcast/episode/edouard-mathieu-open-data-approach-solving-worlds-problems|url-status=live}}</ref> The organization began the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] with six staff members, and grew to 20 by late 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wiblin|first=Robert|title=Max Roser on building the world's first great source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data|url=https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/max-roser-our-world-in-data/|website=80,000 Hours|language=en-US|access-date=21 July 2021|archive-date=22 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122084210/https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/max-roser-our-world-in-data/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/team|title=Our World in Data - Team|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2021-10-05|archive-date=20 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320025147/https://ourworldindata.org/team|url-status=live}}</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|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-02}}</ref>[[File:Global population cartogram.png|thumb|upright=1.3|Cartogram showing the distribution of the global population. Each of the 15,266 pixels represents the home country of 500,000 people.]]


In 2019, Our World in Data won the [[International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences|Lovie Award]], a European web award,<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|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-02|archive-date=16 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016172421/https://www.lovieawards.eu/features/2019-winners-announced/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was one of three [[nonprofit organization]]s in [[Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator's]] Winter 2019 cohort.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/our-world-in-data/|title=YC-backed Our World in Data wants you to know what's changing about the planet|website=TechCrunch|date=23 January 2019|access-date=2019-01-23|archive-date=20 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320025301/https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/our-world-in-data/|url-status=live}}</ref><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=2019-01-26|archive-date=20 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320025122/https://ourworldindata.org/owid-at-ycombinator|url-status=live}}</ref>
=== 2020 to present ===


Since 2020 Our World in Data became one of the leading organizations publishing global data and research on the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]:
Beginning in 2020, Our World in Data added an emphasis on publishing global data and research on the COVID-19 pandemic:
* They created and maintained a worldwide database on [[COVID-19 vaccine|vaccinations for COVID-19]], which was used as the source for data published by the [[World Health Organization]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=WHO COVID-19 Explorer|url=https://worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io/covid/|access-date=2021-04-29|website=worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io|archive-date=30 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430063401/https://worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io/covid/|url-status=live}}</ref> researchers and other international organizations,<ref>{{Cite web|title=COVID-19 Task Force Dashboard|url=https://data.covid19taskforce.com/data|access-date=2022-01-20|website=data.covid19taskforce.com|archive-date=20 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120091724/https://data.covid19taskforce.com/data|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ledford|first=Heidi|date=2021-06-04|title=Six months of COVID vaccines: what 1.7 billion doses have taught scientists|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01505-x|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=594|issue=7862|pages=164–167|doi=10.1038/d41586-021-01505-x|pmid=34089016|bibcode=2021Natur.594..164L|s2cid=235347317|access-date=21 July 2021|archive-date=22 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210722053052/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01505-x|url-status=live|doi-access=free}}</ref> journals,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Mathieu|first1=Edouard|last2=Ritchie|first2=Hannah|last3=Ortiz-Ospina|first3=Esteban|last4=Roser|first4=Max|last5=Hasell|first5=Joe|last6=Appel|first6=Cameron|last7=Giattino|first7=Charlie|last8=Rodés-Guirao|first8=Lucas|date=2021-05-10|title=A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01122-8|journal=Nature Human Behaviour|language=en|volume=5|issue=7|pages=947–953|doi=10.1038/s41562-021-01122-8|issn=2397-3374|pmid=33972767|s2cid=234362504|access-date=21 July 2021|archive-date=9 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209100652/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01122-8|url-status=live|doi-access=free}}</ref> and numerous newspapers.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Visual|first1=F. T.|last2=team|first2=Data Journalism|title=Covid-19 vaccine tracker: the global race to vaccinate|url=https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker/|access-date=2022-01-20|website=ig.ft.com|language=en-gb|archive-date=26 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126134041/https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Holder|first=Josh|date=2021-01-29|title=Tracking Coronavirus Vaccinations Around the World|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html|access-date=2022-01-20|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=22 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211222234019/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Holder|first=Josh|title=Tracking Coronavirus Vaccinations Around the World|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|date=29 January 2021|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html|access-date=2021-04-29|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=22 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211222234019/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Neville|first=Sarah|date=2022-01-19|title=Pandemic exposes a world of healthcare inequalities|work=Financial Times|url=https://www.ft.com/content/258588c0-93c8-4978-8e73-5eb28d43f12a|access-date=2022-01-20|archive-date=20 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120091727/https://www.ft.com/content/258588c0-93c8-4978-8e73-5eb28d43f12a|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title='Our World in Data': ¿''El mundo'' va a mejor o a peor? |date=18 July 2021 |first1= Andrea |last1=Rodés |url=https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/pensamiento/espejos-de-hoy/our-world-in-data-el-mundo-va-mejor-peor_510594_102.html|access-date=2021-07-21|website=Crónica Global|language=es|archive-date=17 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210717221909/https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/pensamiento/espejos-de-hoy/our-world-in-data-el-mundo-va-mejor-peor_510594_102.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Covid-19 vaccine tracker: View vaccinations by country|url=https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/health/global-covid-vaccinations/|access-date=2021-07-21|website=CNN|language=en|archive-date=24 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724194100/https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/health/global-covid-vaccinations/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Millán|first=Víctor|date=2021-04-05|title=3100 gráficos de casi 300 temas distintos: así es Our World in Data, la web imprescindible para entender lo que ha pasado y está pasando|url=https://www.xataka.com/investigacion/our-world-in-data-web-imprescindible-para-entender-que-ha-pasado-esta-pasando-2020-2021|access-date=2021-07-21|website=Xataka|language=es|archive-date=21 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721121038/https://www.xataka.com/investigacion/our-world-in-data-web-imprescindible-para-entender-que-ha-pasado-esta-pasando-2020-2021|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Max Roser on building the world's best source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data|url=https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/max-roser-our-world-in-data/|access-date=2021-07-21|website=80,000 Hours|language=en-US|archive-date=22 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122084210/https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/max-roser-our-world-in-data/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-01-06|title=Most governments are not yet on track to hit their vaccine roll-out targets|newspaper=The Economist|url=https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/01/06/most-governments-are-not-yet-on-track-to-hit-their-vaccine-roll-out-targets|access-date=2021-07-21|issn=0013-0613|archive-date=25 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125053635/https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/01/06/most-governments-are-not-yet-on-track-to-hit-their-vaccine-roll-out-targets|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Similarly, the team built and maintained a global dataset on [[COVID-19 testing]] which was used by the United Nations, the White House, the World Health Organization, and epidemiologists and researchers,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Subbaraman|first=Nidhi|date=2020-03-23|title=Coronavirus tests: researchers chase new diagnostics to fight the pandemic|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00827-6|journal=Nature|language=en|doi=10.1038/d41586-020-00827-6|pmid=32205872|s2cid=214630708|access-date=8 July 2020|archive-date=30 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630222829/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00827-6|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Yan|first=Holly|title=Trump says the US leads the world in testing. But it's far behind in testing per capita, studies show|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/health/us-coronavirus-testing-per-capita/index.html|access-date=2020-07-08|website=CNN|date=13 May 2020|archive-date=20 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320025047/https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/health/us-coronavirus-testing-per-capita/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Hasell|first1=Joe|last2=Mathieu|first2=Edouard|last3=Beltekian|first3=Diana|last4=Macdonald|first4=Bobbie|last5=Giattino|first5=Charlie|last6=Ortiz-Ospina|first6=Esteban|last7=Roser|first7=Max|last8=Ritchie|first8=Hannah|date=2020-10-08|title=A cross-country database of COVID-19 testing|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00688-8.epdf?sharing_token=DhVSer4fwMaMn21PlrIsjNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PTrf0-71MWJ-TVId3NUEQUJCLb8G87BoUdAuW8R1_iiTGud8PFK9p5JC67ZMJAXpsgS8kKXhMu3mB2ZZLC5N3NtSS3xfkaXYRTu-Sslh-oREBAjsFqLo8llDsJyPwH6bM=|journal=[[Scientific Data (journal)|Scientific Data]]|language=en|volume=7|issue=1|page=345|doi=10.1038/s41597-020-00688-8|issn=2052-4463|pmc=7545176|pmid=33033256|doi-access=free|access-date=29 April 2021|archive-date=23 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423222922/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00688-8.epdf?sharing_token=DhVSer4fwMaMn21PlrIsjNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PTrf0-71MWJ-TVId3NUEQUJCLb8G87BoUdAuW8R1_iiTGud8PFK9p5JC67ZMJAXpsgS8kKXhMu3mB2ZZLC5N3NtSS3xfkaXYRTu-Sslh-oREBAjsFqLo8llDsJyPwH6bM%3D|url-status=live}}</ref> and also published data such as hospitalizations and computations of excess deaths.<ref>{{Cite web|title=covid-19-data/public/data at master · owid/covid-19-data|url=https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data|access-date=2022-01-20|website=GitHub|language=en|archive-date=22 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210622030316/https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data|url-status=live}}</ref>


In 2021, the team began campaigning for the [[International Energy Agency]] to make the data it collects from national governments publicly available.<ref name="ritchie-2021">{{cite journal
* Our World in Data created and maintained the worldwide database on [[COVID-19 vaccine|vaccinations for COVID-19]].
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** Our World in Data's vaccination dataset is the source of the data published by the [[World Health Organization]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=WHO COVID-19 Explorer|url=https://worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io/covid/|access-date=2021-04-29|website=worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io}}</ref>
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** Daily updated dashboard by the ''[[Financial Times]]'' and ''[[The New York Times]]'' present data compiled by Our World in Data''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Visual|first=F. T.|last2=team|first2=Data Journalism|title=Covid-19 vaccine tracker: the global race to vaccinate|url=https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker/|access-date=2022-01-20|website=ig.ft.com|language=en-gb}}</ref>''<ref>{{Cite news|last=Holder|first=Josh|date=2021-01-29|title=Tracking Coronavirus Vaccinations Around the World|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html|access-date=2022-01-20|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
**Newspapers rely on data from Our World in Data in their reporting.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Holder|first=Josh|title=Tracking Coronavirus Vaccinations Around the World|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html|access-date=2021-04-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Neville|first=Sarah|date=2022-01-19|title=Pandemic exposes a world of healthcare inequalities|work=Financial Times|url=https://www.ft.com/content/258588c0-93c8-4978-8e73-5eb28d43f12a|access-date=2022-01-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title='Our World in Data': ¿El mundo va a mejor o a peor?|url=https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/pensamiento/espejos-de-hoy/our-world-in-data-el-mundo-va-mejor-peor_510594_102.html|access-date=2021-07-21|website=Crónica Global|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Covid-19 vaccine tracker: View vaccinations by country|url=https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/health/global-covid-vaccinations/|access-date=2021-07-21|website=CNN|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Millán|first=Víctor|date=2021-04-05|title=3100 gráficos de casi 300 temas distintos: así es Our World in Data, la web imprescindible para entender lo que ha pasado y está pasando|url=https://www.xataka.com/investigacion/our-world-in-data-web-imprescindible-para-entender-que-ha-pasado-esta-pasando-2020-2021|access-date=2021-07-21|website=Xataka|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Max Roser on building the world's best source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data|url=https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/max-roser-our-world-in-data/|access-date=2021-07-21|website=80,000 Hours|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-01-06|title=Most governments are not yet on track to hit their vaccine roll-out targets|work=The Economist|url=https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/01/06/most-governments-are-not-yet-on-track-to-hit-their-vaccine-roll-out-targets|access-date=2021-07-21|issn=0013-0613}}</ref>
**Researchers and other international organizations also relied on this same database.<ref>{{Cite web|title=COVID-19 Task Force Dashboard|url=https://data.covid19taskforce.com/data|access-date=2022-01-20|website=data.covid19taskforce.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ledford|first=Heidi|date=2021-06-04|title=Six months of COVID vaccines: what 1.7 billion doses have taught scientists|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01505-x|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=594|issue=7862|pages=164–167|doi=10.1038/d41586-021-01505-x|pmid=34089016|s2cid=235347317}}</ref>
** Our World in Data's COVID-19 vaccination database was published in the journal ''[[Nature Human Behaviour]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Mathieu|first1=Edouard|last2=Ritchie|first2=Hannah|last3=Ortiz-Ospina|first3=Esteban|last4=Roser|first4=Max|last5=Hasell|first5=Joe|last6=Appel|first6=Cameron|last7=Giattino|first7=Charlie|last8=Rodés-Guirao|first8=Lucas|date=2021-05-10|title=A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01122-8|journal=Nature Human Behaviour|language=en|volume=5|issue=7|pages=947–953|doi=10.1038/s41562-021-01122-8|issn=2397-3374|pmid=33972767|s2cid=234362504}}</ref>
* The team built and maintained the global dataset on [[COVID-19 testing]].
** This data was used by the United Nations, the White House, the World Health Organization and epidemiologists and researchers.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Subbaraman|first=Nidhi|date=2020-03-23|title=Coronavirus tests: researchers chase new diagnostics to fight the pandemic|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00827-6|journal=Nature|language=en|doi=10.1038/d41586-020-00827-6|pmid=32205872|s2cid=214630708}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Yan|first=Holly|title=Trump says the US leads the world in testing. But it's far behind in testing per capita, studies show|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/health/us-coronavirus-testing-per-capita/index.html|access-date=2020-07-08|website=CNN}}</ref>
** Our World in Data's [[COVID-19 testing]] database was published in ''[[Scientific Data (journal)|Scientific Data]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Hasell|first1=Joe|last2=Mathieu|first2=Edouard|last3=Beltekian|first3=Diana|last4=Macdonald|first4=Bobbie|last5=Giattino|first5=Charlie|last6=Ortiz-Ospina|first6=Esteban|last7=Roser|first7=Max|last8=Ritchie|first8=Hannah|date=2020-10-08|title=A cross-country database of COVID-19 testing|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00688-8.epdf?sharing_token=DhVSer4fwMaMn21PlrIsjNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PTrf0-71MWJ-TVId3NUEQUJCLb8G87BoUdAuW8R1_iiTGud8PFK9p5JC67ZMJAXpsgS8kKXhMu3mB2ZZLC5N3NtSS3xfkaXYRTu-Sslh-oREBAjsFqLo8llDsJyPwH6bM=|journal=[[Scientific Data (journal)|Scientific Data]]|language=en|volume=7|issue=1|page=345|doi=10.1038/s41597-020-00688-8|issn=2052-4463|pmc=7545176|pmid=33033256|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* Our World in Data also published data on hospitalizations, excess deaths and other data.<ref>{{Cite web|title=covid-19-data/public/data at master · owid/covid-19-data|url=https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data|access-date=2022-01-20|website=GitHub|language=en}}</ref>
* All data is updated daily. Google displays this data in the [[Google Knowledge Graph]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Coronavirus (COVID-19)|url=https://news.google.com/covid19/map?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en|access-date=2022-01-20|website=Google News|language=en}}</ref> Wikipedia also uses this data.

[[Tim Harford]] wrote that during the pandemic Our World in Data "performed heroic efforts in assembling clear, usable information from a messy patchwork of primary sources."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Harford|first=Tim|title=Why investing in data is never money wasted|url=https://www.ft.com/content/6e046f07-6060-4eba-a203-6b147b45ea6c|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-21|newspaper=Financial Times|date=5 February 2021}}</ref>

The website's visibility largely increased compared to the pre-COVID period.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Our%20World%20in%20Data|title=Our World in Data - Google Trends - 2004 to present|website=Google Trends|access-date=2021-10-05}}</ref> The organization began the pandemic with 6 staff, and grew to 20 by late 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wiblin|first=Robert|title=Max Roser on building the world’s first great source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data|url=https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/max-roser-our-world-in-data/|website=80,000 Hours|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/team|title=Our World in Data - Team|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2021-10-05}}</ref> [[Edouard Mathieu]] joined in early 2020 and became Head of Data.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Edouard Mathieu: An Open Data Approach to Solving the World’s Problems|url=https://ten7.com/podcast/episode/edouard-mathieu-open-data-approach-solving-worlds-problems|access-date=2021-10-05|website=TEN7|language=en-US}}</ref>

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== Funding and collaborations ==
== Funding and collaborations ==
[[File:Life expectancy in 1800, 1950, and 2015.png|thumb|upright=1.3|Life expectancy in 1800, 1950, and 2015]]
[[File:Life expectancy in 1800, 1950, and 2015.png|thumb|upright=1.3|Life expectancy in 1800, 1950, and 2015]]


[[Global Change Data Lab]], the non-profit that publishes Our World in Data and the open-access data tools that make the online publication possible, is funded through a mix of grants, sponsors and reader donations<ref>{{Cite web |title=How We’re Funded |url=https://ourworldindata.org/funding |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=Our World in Data}}</ref>.
Global Change Data Lab, the non-profit that publishes Our World in Data and the open-access data tools that make the online publication possible, is funded through a mix of grants, sponsors, and reader donations.<ref>{{Cite web |title=How We're Funded |url=https://ourworldindata.org/funding |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=Our World in Data |archive-date=4 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204150112/https://ourworldindata.org/funding |url-status=live }}</ref>

The first grant to support the research project was given by the [[Nuffield Foundation]], a London-based foundation focused on social policy. The Nuffield Foundation supported as part of their 'Data for the public good' portfolio.


* The first grant to support the research project was given by the [[Nuffield Foundation]], a London-based foundation focused on social policy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our world in data |url=https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/project/our-world-in-data |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318164858/https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/project/our-world-in-data |archive-date=2023-03-18 |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=[[Nuffield Foundation]] |language=en-GB}}</ref>
Currently, the project is supported by grants from the [[Quadrature Climate Foundation]], the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation|Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]], and a grant from German philanthropist [[Susanne Klatten]]. Among the sponsors are Longview Philanthropy, Effective Altruism Meta Fund, [[The Musk Foundation]], as well as prominent individuals such as [[Vitalik Buterin]], [[Tobias Lütke]] and [[Stripe (company)|Stripe]] founders [[Patrick Collison]] and [[John Collison]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=How We’re Funded |url=https://ourworldindata.org/funding |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=Our World in Data}}</ref>. The third major source of funding are reader donations. In 2020, more than 3000 individuals supported the project<ref>Global Change Data Lab, [https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2021/10/Annual-Report-2020.pdf Annual Report 2020], Page 7.</ref>.
* Other grantors supporting the project have included the Quadrature Climate Foundation, the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation|Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]], and a grant from German philanthropist [[Susanne Klatten]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=How We're Funded |url=https://ourworldindata.org/funding |access-date=2022-07-15 |website=Our World in Data |archive-date=4 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204150112/https://ourworldindata.org/funding |url-status=live }}</ref> In the past, Our World in Data has also received grants from the [[World Health Organization]], the [[Department of Health and Social Care]] in the United Kingdom, and the [[Centre for Effective Altruism|Effective Altruism Meta Fund]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=How We're Funded |url=https://ourworldindata.org/funding |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318074043/https://ourworldindata.org/funding |archive-date=2023-03-18 |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=Our World in Data}}</ref>
* Reader donations are also a major source of funding. In 2020, more than 3,000 individuals supported the project,<ref>Global Change Data Lab, [https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2021/10/Annual-Report-2020.pdf Annual Report 2020] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422133015/https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2021/10/Annual-Report-2020.pdf |date=22 April 2022 }}, Page 7.</ref> exceeding 4,000 donors by 2023. The list of donors includes [[Jamie Metzl]] and YouTuber [[Hank Green]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=How We're Funded |url=https://ourworldindata.org/funding |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318074043/https://ourworldindata.org/funding |archive-date=2023-03-18 |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=Our World in Data}}</ref>


The research team collaborated with the science YouTube channel [[Kurzgesagt]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Yau|first=Nathan|title=Kurzgesagt|url=https://flowingdata.com/tag/kurzgesagt/|access-date=2021-07-21|website=FlowingData|language=en|archive-date=21 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721121038/https://flowingdata.com/tag/kurzgesagt/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Whisner|first=Mary|title=Library Guides: Law in the Time of COVID-19: Medical & Nonlegal Information|url=https://guides.lib.uw.edu/law/covid19/med|access-date=2021-07-21|website=guides.lib.uw.edu|language=en|archive-date=21 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721121048/https://guides.lib.uw.edu/law/covid19/med|url-status=live}}</ref>
The research team is based at the [[University of Oxford]]'s [[Oxford Martin School]]. Director is the founder Max Roser.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/team|title=Our Team|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2019-06-18}}</ref>


In the [[COVID-19 pandemic|coronavirus pandemic]], the team partnered with epidemiologists from [[Harvard University|Harvard]]'s Chan School of Public Health and the Robert Koch Institute to study countries that have responded successfully in the early phase of the pandemic.<ref>{{Cite web|title=How experts use data to identify emerging COVID-19 success stories|url=https://ourworldindata.org/identify-covid-exemplars|access-date=2020-07-08|website=Our World in Data|archive-date=29 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129153307/https://ourworldindata.org/identify-covid-exemplars|url-status=live}}</ref> Janine Aron and [[John Muellbauer]] worked with OWID to research [[Mortality displacement|excess mortality]] during the pandemic.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A pandemic primer on excess mortality statistics and their comparability across countries|url=https://ourworldindata.org/covid-excess-mortality|access-date=2020-07-08|website=Our World in Data|archive-date=5 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505081642/https://ourworldindata.org/covid-excess-mortality|url-status=live}}</ref>
The research team collaborated with science YouTube channel [[Kurzgesagt]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Yau|first=Nathan|title=Kurzgesagt|url=https://flowingdata.com/tag/kurzgesagt/|access-date=2021-07-21|website=FlowingData|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Whisner|first=Mary|title=Library Guides: Law in the Time of COVID-19: Medical & Nonlegal Information|url=https://guides.lib.uw.edu/law/covid19/med|access-date=2021-07-21|website=guides.lib.uw.edu|language=en}}</ref>


In 2022, [[FTX]]'s Future Fund offered Our World in Data a $7.5 million grant to support their activities. Max Roser told Fortune that Our World in Data's board of trustees ultimately rejected the grant money after conducting due diligence and other checks.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kahn |first=Jeremy |date=2022-11-15 |title=Is the collapse of Bankman-Fried's FTX crypto empire the end of Effective Altruism? |url=https://fortune.com/2022/11/14/bankman-fried-ftx-collapse-threatens-effective-altruism-billions-charity-philanthropy/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20221115224427/https://fortune.com/2022/11/14/bankman-fried-ftx-collapse-threatens-effective-altruism-billions-charity-philanthropy/ |archive-date=2022-11-15 |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] |language=en}}</ref>
In the [[COVID-19 pandemic|coronavirus pandemic]], the team partnered with epidemiologists from [[Harvard University|Harvard]]'s Chan School of Public Health and the Robert Koch Institute to study countries that have responded successfully in the early phase of the pandemic.<ref>{{Cite web|title=How experts use data to identify emerging COVID-19 success stories|url=https://ourworldindata.org/identify-covid-exemplars|access-date=2020-07-08|website=Our World in Data}}</ref> Janine Aron and [[John Muellbauer]] worked with OWID to research the [[Mortality displacement|excess mortality]] during the pandemic.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A pandemic primer on excess mortality statistics and their comparability across countries|url=https://ourworldindata.org/covid-excess-mortality|access-date=2020-07-08|website=Our World in Data}}</ref>


== Usage ==
== Usage ==
In 2021, the Our World in Data website had 89 million unique visitors<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our Audience & Coverage |url=https://ourworldindata.org/coverage |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=Our World in Data}}</ref>.
In 2021, the Our World in Data website had 89 million unique visitors.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our Audience & Coverage |url=https://ourworldindata.org/coverage |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=Our World in Data |archive-date=4 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204145911/https://ourworldindata.org/coverage |url-status=live }}</ref>


Our World in Data is cited in academic scientific journals,<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|s2cid=11224600}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Lamentowicz|first1=M.|last2=Kołaczek|first2=P.|last3=Laggoun-Défarge|first3=F.|last4=Kaliszan|first4=K.|last5=Jassey|first5=V. E. J.|last6=Buttler|first6=A.|last7=Gilbert|first7=D.|last8=Lapshina|first8=E.|last9=Marcisz|first9=K.|date=2016-12-20|title=Anthropogenic- and natural sources of dust in peatland during the Anthropocene|journal=Scientific Reports|volume=6|pages=38731|doi=10.1038/srep38731|pmc=5171771|pmid=27995953}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Topol|first=Eric J.|year=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|issn=1546-170X|pmid=30617339|s2cid=57574615}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Liu|first1=Xin|last2=Xu|first2=Xun|last3=Vigouroux|first3=Yves|last4=Wettberg|first4=Eric von|last5=Sutton|first5=Tim|last6=Colmer|first6=Timothy D.|last7=Siddique|first7=Kadambot H. M.|last8=Nguyen|first8=Henry T.|last9=Crossa|first9=José|date=May 2019|title=Resequencing of 429 chickpea accessions from 45 countries provides insights into genome diversity, domestication and agronomic traits|journal=Nature Genetics|volume=51|issue=5|pages=857–864|doi=10.1038/s41588-019-0401-3|issn=1546-1718|pmid=31036963|s2cid=139100791|url=http://oar.icrisat.org/11191/1/2019_NatureGenetics_chickpeas.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Levitt|first1=Jonathan M.|last2=Levitt|first2=Michael|date=2017-06-20|title=Future of fundamental discovery in US biomedical research|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=114|issue=25|pages=6498–6503|doi=10.1073/pnas.1609996114|issn=0027-8424|pmc=5488913|pmid=28584129|doi-access=free}}</ref> medicine and global health journals,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Lartey|first1=Anna|last2=Shetty|first2=Prakash|last3=Wijesinha-Bettoni|first3=Ramani|last4=Singh|first4=Sudhvir|last5=Stordalen|first5=Gunhild Anker|last6=Webb|first6=Patrick|date=2018-06-13|title=Hunger and malnutrition in the 21st century|url= |journal=BMJ|volume=361|pages=k2238|doi=10.1136/bmj.k2238|issn=0959-8138|pmc=5996965|pmid=29898884}}</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|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> and social science journals.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Weil|first1=David|last2=Storeygard|first2=Adam|last3=Squires|first3=Tim|last4=Henderson|first4=J. Vernon|date=2018-02-01|title=The Global Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History, and the Role of Trade|journal=The Quarterly Journal of Economics|volume=133|issue=1|pages=357–406|doi=10.1093/qje/qjx030|issn=0033-5533|pmc=6889963|pmid=31798191}}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'',<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/upshot/medical-mystery-health-spending-1980.html|title=Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980|last=Frakt|first=Austin|date=2018-05-14|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-06-05|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and ''[[The Economist]]''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/08/21/africa-is-on-track-to-be-declared-polio-free|title=Africa is on track to be declared polio-free|date=2019-08-21|work=The Economist|access-date=2019-11-03|issn=0013-0613}}</ref> have used Our World in Data as a source.
Our World in Data has been cited in academic scientific journals,<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><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Lamentowicz|first1=M.|last2=Kołaczek|first2=P.|last3=Laggoun-Défarge|first3=F.|last4=Kaliszan|first4=K.|last5=Jassey|first5=V. E. J.|last6=Buttler|first6=A.|last7=Gilbert|first7=D.|last8=Lapshina|first8=E.|last9=Marcisz|first9=K.|date=2016-12-20|title=Anthropogenic- and natural sources of dust in peatland during the Anthropocene|journal=Scientific Reports|volume=6|pages=38731|doi=10.1038/srep38731|pmc=5171771|pmid=27995953|bibcode=2016NatSR...638731F }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Topol|first=Eric J.|year=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|issn=1546-170X|pmid=30617339|s2cid=57574615}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Liu|first1=Xin|last2=Xu|first2=Xun|last3=Vigouroux|first3=Yves|last4=Wettberg|first4=Eric von|last5=Sutton|first5=Tim|last6=Colmer|first6=Timothy D.|last7=Siddique|first7=Kadambot H. M.|last8=Nguyen|first8=Henry T.|last9=Crossa|first9=José|date=May 2019|title=Resequencing of 429 chickpea accessions from 45 countries provides insights into genome diversity, domestication and agronomic traits|journal=Nature Genetics|volume=51|issue=5|pages=857–864|doi=10.1038/s41588-019-0401-3|issn=1546-1718|pmid=31036963|s2cid=139100791|url=http://oar.icrisat.org/11191/1/2019_NatureGenetics_chickpeas.pdf|access-date=25 March 2020|archive-date=5 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305130605/http://oar.icrisat.org/11191/1/2019_NatureGenetics_chickpeas.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Levitt|first1=Jonathan M.|last2=Levitt|first2=Michael|date=2017-06-20|title=Future of fundamental discovery in US biomedical research|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=114|issue=25|pages=6498–6503|doi=10.1073/pnas.1609996114|issn=0027-8424|pmc=5488913|pmid=28584129|bibcode=2017PNAS..114.6498L |doi-access=free}}</ref> medicine and global health journals,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Lartey|first1=Anna|last2=Shetty|first2=Prakash|last3=Wijesinha-Bettoni|first3=Ramani|last4=Singh|first4=Sudhvir|last5=Stordalen|first5=Gunhild Anker|last6=Webb|first6=Patrick|date=2018-06-13|title=Hunger and malnutrition in the 21st century|url= |journal=BMJ|volume=361|pages=k2238|doi=10.1136/bmj.k2238|issn=0959-8138|pmc=5996965|pmid=29898884}}</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|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> and social science journals.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Weil|first1=David|last2=Storeygard|first2=Adam|last3=Squires|first3=Tim|last4=Henderson|first4=J. Vernon|date=2018-02-01|title=The Global Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History, and the Role of Trade|journal=The Quarterly Journal of Economics|volume=133|issue=1|pages=357–406|doi=10.1093/qje/qjx030|issn=0033-5533|pmc=6889963|pmid=31798191}}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'',<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/upshot/medical-mystery-health-spending-1980.html|title=Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980|last=Frakt|first=Austin|date=2018-05-14|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-06-05|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=20 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320025612/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/upshot/medical-mystery-health-spending-1980.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''[[The Economist]]''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/08/21/africa-is-on-track-to-be-declared-polio-free|title=Africa is on track to be declared polio-free|date=2019-08-21|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=2019-11-03|issn=0013-0613|archive-date=20 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320025629/https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/08/21/africa-is-on-track-to-be-declared-polio-free|url-status=live}}</ref> have used Our World in Data as a source.


The site uses permissive licenses to allow others to copy, modify, and distribute the work ([[CC BY]] for content and the [[MIT License]] for software).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ourworldindata.org/ |title=Our World in Data |date=27 Feb 2023}} (footer)</ref>
Tina Rosenberg wrote in ''[[The New York Times]]'' that Our World in Data presents a "big picture that's an important counterpoint to the constant barrage of negative world news".


==See also==
==See also==
* [[Effective altruism]]
* [[Gapminder Foundation]]
* [[Gapminder Foundation]]


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Our World in Data
Type of businessNon-profit affiliated with the University of Oxford
HeadquartersOxford, England
OwnerGlobal Change Data Lab
Founder(s)Max Roser
RevenueDecrease £1,784,746 (2022)[1]
URLourworldindata.org Edit this at Wikidata
CommercialNo
LaunchedMay 2013
(11 years ago) (2013-05)[2]
Current statusActive

Our World in Data (OWID) is a scientific online publication that focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality.

It is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a registered charity in England and Wales,[3] and was founded by Max Roser, a social historian and development economist. The research team is based at the University of Oxford.[4] The organization is chaired by Hetan Shah.

Content

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Our World in Data uses interactive charts and maps to illustrate research findings, often taking a long-term view to show how global living conditions have changed over time.


  • Compilation of graphs from the organization, showing the overall global percentages of the last two centuries, in six factors: extreme poverty, democracy, basic education, vaccination, literacy, and child mortality
    Compilation of graphs from the organization, showing the overall global percentages of the last two centuries, in six factors: extreme poverty, democracy, basic education, vaccination, literacy, and child mortality
  • Global CO2 emissions by world region since 1750
    Global CO2 emissions by world region since 1750
  • Cartogram showing the distribution of the global population. Each of the 15,266 pixels represents the home country of 500,000 people.
    Cartogram showing the distribution of the global population. Each of the 15,266 pixels represents the home country of 500,000 people.

As of April 2024, Our World in Data categorize their charts and articles by the following topics on their website:[5]

  • Population and Demographic Change
  • Health
  • Energy and Environment
  • Food and Agriculture
  • Poverty and Economic Development
  • Education and Knowledge
  • Innovation and Technological Change
  • Living Conditions, Community, and Wellbeing
  • Human Rights and Democracy
  • Violence and War

History

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Roser began his work on the project in 2011,[6] adding a research team at the University of Oxford later on. In the first years, Roser developed the publication together with inequality researcher Sir Tony Atkinson.[6] Hannah Ritchie joined in 2017 and became Head of Research.[7] Edouard Mathieu joined in 2020 and became Head of Data.[8] The organization began the COVID-19 pandemic with six staff members, and grew to 20 by late 2021.[9][10]

In 2019, Our World in Data won the Lovie Award, a European web award,[11] and was one of three nonprofit organizations in Y Combinator's Winter 2019 cohort.[12][13]

Beginning in 2020, Our World in Data added an emphasis on publishing global data and research on the COVID-19 pandemic:

In 2021, the team began campaigning for the International Energy Agency to make the data it collects from national governments publicly available.[31]

Funding and collaborations

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Life expectancy in 1800, 1950, and 2015

Global Change Data Lab, the non-profit that publishes Our World in Data and the open-access data tools that make the online publication possible, is funded through a mix of grants, sponsors, and reader donations.[32]

The research team collaborated with the science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt.[37][38]

In the coronavirus pandemic, the team partnered with epidemiologists from Harvard's Chan School of Public Health and the Robert Koch Institute to study countries that have responded successfully in the early phase of the pandemic.[39] Janine Aron and John Muellbauer worked with OWID to research excess mortality during the pandemic.[40]

In 2022, FTX's Future Fund offered Our World in Data a $7.5 million grant to support their activities. Max Roser told Fortune that Our World in Data's board of trustees ultimately rejected the grant money after conducting due diligence and other checks.[41]

Usage

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In 2021, the Our World in Data website had 89 million unique visitors.[42]

Our World in Data has been cited in academic scientific journals,[43][44][45][46][47] medicine and global health journals,[48][49] and social science journals.[50] The Washington Post, The New York Times,[51] and The Economist[52] have used Our World in Data as a source.

The site uses permissive licenses to allow others to copy, modify, and distribute the work (CC BY for content and the MIT License for software).[53]

See also

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