Data to understand global problems and research to make progress against them. Founder of @OurWorldInData / Professor at @UniofOxford
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If you want to make use of this new tool that brings interactive Our World in Data charts onto Wikipedia, here is how you can do it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templa…
If you want to make use of this new tool that brings interactive Our World in Data charts onto Wikipedia, here is how you can do it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templa…
When do people experience mental health conditions for the first time?
— The key chart from Hannah Ritchie's new @OurWorldInData article: ourworldindata.org/when-do-p…
My colleague Hannah Ritchie has published a brief guide to the new 'Living Planet Index' report that just got published today.
Here it is: ourworldindata.org/2026-lpi-…
This is today's @OurWorldInData Data Insight — and here you can find all of them: ourworldindata.org/data-insi…
Future population projections expect that fertility rates stop declining and roughly stabilize.
This new NBER paper asks what evidence we have to expect this. It finds there is none. "Instead, where and when fertility has fallen low, it has tended to keep falling."
nber.org/papers/w35824
This is a new paper, but it was exactly our motivation earlier this year when we built our Population Projection Simulation.
It runs in your browser and that lets you explore what the future looks like when the assumed fertility rebound does not happen.
ourworldindata.org/populatio…
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Excited to share our new working paper: how much did the US standard of living really rise over the twentieth century — and when? With @bhwittenbrink
Using 5.1 million Sears catalog listings, we build a quality-adjusted price index for consumer goods, 1900–1990. Two headline findings: growth was much larger than official statistics imply, and its peak came before WWII, not after. (1/9)
Max Roser retweeted
In a hotel room in northeast Nigeria, I opened a leading AI chatbot, turned my laptop toward a former Boko Haram commander, and asked if he'd used it. He nodded.
"You type in the question… like 'How can I build a bomb?', and then it tells you how. It is like a human robot. We used it a lot."
My new study on how the jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI with @CamAISciPolicy, covered today in @nytimes 🧵/9
Just read that Abdullah Ibrahim has sadly died this week. One of my very favourite musicians.
He died at 91 and played wonderful music until his very end.
If you don't know him, listen to his Blue Bolero — it's the just the first 2 minutes of this.
youtube.com/watch?v=L5i4stj4…
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How will your country's demographics change this century?
At Our World in Data we built a tool to let you see for yourself.
The UN's assumptions are the starting point.
But then you can adjust the three drivers of change — births, deaths, and migration — to what you expect.
This is from my article 'The end of progress against extreme poverty?'
ourworldindata.org/end-progr…
