Our World in Data

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.

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

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.

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

• 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

Roser began his work on the project in 2011,{{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}} 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. Hannah Ritchie joined in 2017 and became Head of Research.{{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}} Edouard Mathieu joined in 2020 and became Head of Data.{{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}} The organization began the COVID-19 pandemic with six staff members, and grew to 20 by late 2021.{{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}}{{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}}

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

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 vaccinations for COVID-19, which was used as the source for data published by the World Health Organization,{{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}} researchers and other international organizations,{{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}}{{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}} journals,{{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}} and numerous newspapers.{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}
• 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,{{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|url-access=subscription}}{{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}}{{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|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}} and also published data such as hospitalizations and computations of excess deaths.{{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}}

In 2021, the team began campaigning for the International Energy Agency to make the data it collects from national governments publicly available.{{cite journal

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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.{{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 }}

• The first grant to support the research project was given by the Nuffield Foundation, a London-based foundation focused on social policy.{{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}}
• Other grantors supporting the project have included the Quadrature Climate Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and a grant from German philanthropist Susanne Klatten.{{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 }} 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 Effective Altruism Meta Fund.{{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}}
• Reader donations are also a major source of funding. In 2020, more than 3,000 individuals supported the project,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. exceeding 4,000 donors by 2023. The list of donors includes Jamie Metzl and YouTuber Hank Green.

The research team collaborated with the science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt.{{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}}{{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}}

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.{{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}} Janine Aron and John Muellbauer worked with OWID to research excess mortality during the pandemic.{{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}}

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.{{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 |language=en}}

In 2021, the Our World in Data website had 89 million unique visitors.{{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 }}

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