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3 weeks ago | 
ourworldindata.org | Hannah Ritchie |Fiona Spooner
As much as one-quarter of deaths in Europe and the United States were once from tuberculosis. People often romanticize what’s rare and look down on what’s common. This was not the case for tuberculosis. It was everywhere, but still carried a strange sense of allure. By the middle of the 18th century, around 1% of London's population was dying from tuberculosis (TB) every year. You can see this in the chart below, which shows modeled estimates of TB death rates in London.1Let’s pause on that.
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1 month ago | 
ourworldindata.org | Saloni Dattani |Fiona Spooner
Measles once killed millions every year. Vaccines changed this, preventing disease, long-term immune damage, and deadly outbreaks. Measles used to be an extremely common disease.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Hannah Ritchie |Fiona Spooner |Max Roser
Many countries refuse to share their data, which is a risk for antimicrobial resistance. If we want to understand the risks of antimicrobial resistance, we need to know how antibiotics are being used, including their volumes, which types, and where they’re consumed. Unfortunately, there are significant data gaps in antibiotic use for livestock. In 2016, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) started gathering and publishing data on the use of antibiotics in animals.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Hannah Ritchie |Fiona Spooner |Max Roser
Overuse is a risk for antibiotic resistance, but there are ways to reduce it. For humanity, antibiotics are a huge blessing. Antibiotics have saved millions of lives from bacterial infections. However, there is growing concern that these bacteria will become resistant to the drugs we use against them. When we think about antimicrobial resistance, we often focus on what drugs humans take. We might not even consider the use of antibiotics in livestock, but they also pose a threat.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Hannah Ritchie |Fiona Spooner |Max Roser
Many countries refuse to share their data, which is a risk for antimicrobial resistance. If we want to understand the risks of antimicrobial resistance, we need to know how antibiotics are being used, including their volumes, which types, and where they’re consumed. Unfortunately, there are significant data gaps in antibiotic use for livestock. In 2016, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) started gathering and publishing data on the use of antibiotics in animals.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Hannah Ritchie |Fiona Spooner |Max Roser
A guide to understanding the Living Planet Index and what it does and doesn’t mean. The 2024 Living Planet Index report is published today and makes for some grim reading.1 The headline is a 73% average decline in wildlife populations since 1970. While these trends are extremely worrying, the numbers presented in the Living Planet Index (LPI) report are often misunderstood or misreported.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Fiona Spooner
Around the world, women tend to live longer than men. However, the sex gap in life expectancy has changed over time, as this chart shows. The data comes from combining the WHO’s Human Mortality Database and the United Nations World Population Prospects. As you can see, the sex gap in life expectancy — defined as female life expectancy minus male life expectancy — was around 3 years in the 19th century in countries like France and Sweden.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Fiona Spooner
Around the world, women tend to live longer than men. However, the sex gap in life expectancy has changed over time, as this chart shows. The data comes from combining the WHO’s Human Mortality Database and the United Nations World Population Prospects. As you can see, the sex gap in life expectancy — defined as female life expectancy minus male life expectancy — was around 3 years in the 19th century in countries like France and Sweden.
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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 | Fiona Spooner |Hannah Ritchie |Max Roser
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below. WHO Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact (DDI), World Health Organization (2024)
