Fiona Spooner

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.