Articles from: Our World in Data
We live in a world in which 10 children die every...
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RT @bettycjung: Global inequality: in countries where incomes are very high #childmortality is low https://t.co/qle0SRQ5eq https://t.co/qle0SRQ5eq - view on twitter
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Our World in DataAbout 3 billion people in the world do not have access to modern energy sources for cooking and heating their homes. They are suffering...
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Millions die from household air pollution this year/ It's an old problem. Humanity suffered from breathing polluted air for thousands of years. Seneca wrote about how it impacted him👇 We are the generation that can end this in our lifetimes. My post → https://t.co/gIaYl7CvdW https://t.co/gIaYl7CvdW - view on twitter
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Our World in DataHow much economic growth is necessary to reduce global poverty substantially? - 2 days
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I study the data on today’s global inequality to calculate the minimum aggregate growth that is required to reduce global poverty...
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7/ This chart shows just how large the differences are between people who were born into a country that saw large growth in the past decades and a place that only saw only little economic growth. [from https://t.co/4E6FAtvTLE] https://t.co/4E6FAtvTLE] - view on twitter
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Our World in DataLife Expectancy - 2 days
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When and why did the average age at which people die increase and how can we make further progress against early...
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Source for the graph: https://t.co/4UKX29fUCT - view on twitter
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Our World in DataWhat is economic growth? And why is it so important? - 3 days
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The goods and services that we all need are not just there – they need to be produced – and growth means that their...
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Mini-thread on why to donate. – If you do have a high income then this is largely because you were lucky to be born at the right place and time. – If you were born in the past or in a low-income country you'd be poor. [See my post 'What is growth?' https://t.co/RTOvn2eRPh] https://t.co/RTOvn2eRPh] - view on twitter
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Our World in DataThe majority of the world today is poor: 85% of the world live on less than $30 per day. If we are to alleviate...
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2/ Research shows: a person's home country explains *two-thirds* of the variation of income differences between all people in the world https://t.co/X6PRSjKROb This means where you are born is more important for how poor or rich you are than *everything else put together*. - view on twitter
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Our World in DataWhat is economic growth? And why is it so important? - 4 days
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The goods and services that we all need are not just there – they need to be produced – and growth means that their...
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The decline of poverty in South Korea, relative to several poverty lines. Looking at the $20 per day poverty line we see that at the beginning of the 1980s almost everyone (96%) lived on less than that. Since then that share has fallen to 12%. [from https://t.co/RTOvn2eRPh] https://t.co/RTOvn2eRPh] - view on twitter
COVID-19 Data Explorer - 5 days
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest...
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RT @lucasrodesg: I just updated our vaccination data: https://t.co/ED7ulrAl9w 🇲🇾 Malaysia managed to vaccinate ~1.35% of its population ag… - view on twitter
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Our World in DataThe world’s energy problem - 5 days
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The world faces two energy problems: most of our energy production still produces greenhouse gas emissions, and hundreds of millions lack access to energy...
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If we want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions we have to replace fossil-fuel-electricity with low-carbon-electricity. From 1985 to 2018 the world made no progress in this direction. For all this time 64% of electricity was produced from fossil fuels. → https://t.co/16S0kFDjkF https://t.co/16S0kFDjkF - view on twitter
Our vaccination dataset uses the most recent official numbers from governments and health ministries worldwide. The population estimates we use to calculate per-capita metrics...
RT @lucasrodesg: 💉I just updated our COVID-19 vaccination data: https://t.co/eiCJ7FpUZJ Share of people fully vaccinated: 🇦🇪 UAE 70% 🇺🇾 Ur… - view on twitter