Hannah Ritchie

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.

1 month ago | ourworldindata.org | Hannah Ritchie

How will artificial intelligence (AI) impact people’s jobs? This question has no simple answer, but the more AI systems can independently carry out long, job-like tasks, the greater their impact will likely be. The chart shows a trend in this direction for software-related tasks. The length of tasks — in terms of how long they take human professionals — that AIs can do on their own has increased quickly in the past couple of years.

1 month ago | onet.pl | Hannah Ritchie

Przyszłość Ziemi zależy od nasMłode pokolenie często słyszy, że nadciąga katastrofa klimatyczna. Jeśli nie wykończy nas fala upałów, zrobi to szalejący ogień. Albo huragan, powódź czy klęska głodu. Niewiarygodne, jak wielu z nas powtarza te pesymistyczne wizje swoim dzieciom. Nie powinno zatem dziwić, że większość młodych ludzi obawia się o swoją przyszłość i uważa, że ich świat jest w niebezpieczeństwie. Myślenie o kondycji naszej planety wzbudza w nich silny niepokój i lęk.

1 month ago | sustainabilitybynumbers.com | Hannah Ritchie

When it comes to clean energy technologies, China is crushing it. It dominates the supply chain of the main energy minerals. It’s not only rolling out solar power rapidly at home, it’s also exporting huge amounts of solar panels elsewhere. Take a look at the chart below, which shows solar PV exports from China to the rest of the world. Increasingly, these panels are going to low-to-middle income countries who are hungry for energy, and will go after whatever’s cheap: that’s Chinese solar.

1 month ago | ourworldindata.org | Hannah Ritchie

It’s difficult to compare countries because they don’t always measure infant mortality in the same way. Which country is the safest for a baby to be born? Answering this question might seem easy: divide the number of infants who die by the total number of infants born; make a map of these rates and find the lowest number.