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Nov 18, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Saloni Dattani |Edouard Mathieu |Lucas Rodés-Guirao |Max Roser
Our small team made COVID-19 data clear, reliable, and accessible to a global audience. This is how it happened. Before COVID-19, Our World in Data (OWID) was a small team with large ambitions. We made data and research on global issues like poverty, climate, and global health accessible to the general public. But our team took a gradual approach — we updated our charts manually, usually on an annual basis.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Edouard Mathieu
For decades, the World Values Survey and European Values Survey projects have examined people’s values through their surveys. One of the questions on trust asks: “Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you need to be very careful in dealing with people?”This chart shows the share of respondents who answered “most people can be trusted” across different countries. As you can see, reported trust in others varies widely from country to country.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Edouard Mathieu
When it comes to demographic trends, few are as well known as the “baby boom”. The baby boom was a sharp rise in the fertility rate toward the end of the Second World War and for decades after. It happened in several countries around the world, but it was especially pronounced in the United States. Before the baby boom, the US had seen a long-term decline in the fertility rate, down to about 2 children per woman by the 1930s.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Edouard Mathieu
Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars other than the Sun. Their existence was first confirmed in 1992 when astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail identified two exoplanets orbiting a star located 2,300 light-years from Earth. As shown in this chart, from 1992 to 2005, scientists discovered two hundred more exoplanets. They primarily used a method called "radial velocity".
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
jessicar.substack.com | Jessica Rose |Edouard Mathieu |Fiona Spooner |Saloni Dattani
First read this: Then look at the number of “Daily confirmed cases” worldwide according to Our World in Data: Then contextualize this with regard to “deaths”. The so-called increase in death rate being propagated by strange unelected individuals with investments to protect involves absolutely negligible numbers - and that’s assuming even these numbers aren’t fabricated. WHO knows, at this point. Public distrust is at an all-time high due to the COVID-19 “mismanagement debacle”.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Edouard Mathieu
According to the latest trade statistics from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators, the sum of exports and imports across countries amounted to 63% of global GDP in 2022, the most recent year available. This metric, also known as the trade openness index, represents the ratio of total trade (exports plus imports) to global output. The higher this ratio, the greater the influence of international trade transactions on global economic activity.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Edouard Mathieu |Veronika Samborska |Max Roser
All data and visualizations on Our World in Data rely on data sourced from one or several original data providers. Preparing this original data involves several processing steps. Depending on the data, this can include standardizing country names and world region definitions, converting units, calculating derived indicators such as per capita measures, as well as adding or adapting metadata such as the name or the description given to an indicator.
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May 21, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Edouard Mathieu |Max Roser
May 21, 2024Share this insightThis chart shows the dramatic fall in the price of computer storage between 1956 and 2023. It relies on the data carefully collected by the computer scientist John C. McCallum. In the last 70 years, the price for a unit of storage has fallen by almost ten orders of magnitude. The data is plotted on a logarithmic scale on the vertical axis. The line follows an almost straight path, indicating an exponential reduction in price.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Edouard Mathieu |Max Roser
April 30, 2024Share this insightSince the late 20th century, astronomers and space agencies have taken steps to monitor the threat of large asteroids passing near Earth. International initiatives were established to detect, track, and characterize these celestial bodies to safeguard our planet from possible collisions. As the chart shows, more than 33,000 near-Earth asteroids have been discovered and tracked since 1990.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Edouard Mathieu |Max Roser
Moore's law was first described in 1965 by Gordon E. Moore, the co-founder of Intel. He observed that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubled every two years. This trend has continued over the last half century, and Moore’s predictions have remained surprisingly close to reality. The chart shows data collected by computational scientist Karl Rupp on the number of transistors per microprocessor over the last 50 years. The data is plotted on a logarithmic scale on the vertical axis.
