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2 months ago | 
ourworldindata.org | Saloni Dattani |Lucas Rodés-Guirao
The baby boom reshaped family life and drove population growth in many countries. In this article, we explore the key patterns in seven charts. The baby boom was a period that saw a surge in birth rates alongside a dramatic decline in death rates due to advances in medicine and public health. This combination led to rapid population growth in many high-income countries, which influenced their societies for generations.
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2 months ago | 
ourworldindata.org | Saloni Dattani |Lucas Rodés-Guirao
The baby boom reshaped family life and drove population growth in many countries. In this article, we explore the key patterns in eight charts. The baby boom was a period that saw a surge in birth rates alongside a dramatic decline in death rates due to advances in medicine and public health. This combination led to rapid population growth in many high-income countries, which influenced their societies for generations.
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2 months ago | 
ourworldindata.org | Saloni Dattani |Lucas Rodés-Guirao
The total fertility rate is commonly confused with the eventual number of births per woman. This can result in misinterpreting the impact of policies and trends over time. When people talk about trends in fertility, they often use a single metric: the total fertility rate (TFR). It seems straightforward — after all, it’s often described as the average number of children per woman. But while TFR is a widely used metric, it’s not as simple as it sounds.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Saloni Dattani |Lucas Rodés-Guirao |Max Roser
The pandemic has resulted in over twenty million deaths. In this article, we review the key insights from global data on COVID-19. According to the best estimates, the COVID-19 pandemic, which began spreading across the world in 2020, had caused around 27 million deaths by August 2024. It has caused grief and suffering over lost lives, put immense pressure on doctors and nurses, and continues to disrupt societies, economies, and lives.
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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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Oct 28, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Lucas Rodés-Guirao
The average area burned by wildfires each year has fallen in the last few decades. This is due mainly to changes in land practices, including the intensification of agriculture and less savanna burning. This chart shows the estimated area burnt by wildfires each year, broken down by land cover type. This data comes from the Global Wildfire Information System.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Hannah Ritchie |Lucas Rodés-Guirao
Falling fertility rates, migration movements, and China’s population decline. We can’t understand the world without understanding demographic change. How many people are alive today? How many are born; how many die? What do we expect populations to look like in the future? The United Nations updates its big dataset — the World Population Prospects — every two years to answer these questions. It just released its latest edition today.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
freethink.com | Saloni Dattani |Lucas Rodés-Guirao
Women tend to live longer than men. In 2021, this difference amounted to a 5-year gap in global life expectancy: the average life expectancy was 73.8 years for women versus 68.4 years for men. What causes these differences? Is it because women outlive men at old ages? Or because young men are more likely to experience accidents and violent deaths? In this article, we’ll look into the sex gap in life expectancy: how it arises, how it varies around the world and how it has shifted over generations.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
ourworldindata.org | Saloni Dattani |Lucas Rodés-Guirao |Edouard Mathieu |Hannah Ritchie
Disease outbreaks may be inevitable, but large-scale pandemics are not. The world can respond swiftly and effectively to pandemic risks in the future with better understanding, resources, and effort. To avoid suffering through another large pandemic, we have to take the risk of pandemics seriously.
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Feb 28, 2023 | 
ourworldindata.org | Edouard Mathieu |Lucas Rodés-Guirao
Johns Hopkins University will stop publishing data on confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths. Our team will replace our entire time series with WHO’s weekly-updated data on 8 March. This change will not affect users of our charts and dataset. February 28, 2023Johns Hopkins University has been at the forefront of collecting and reporting data on confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths since the outbreak began in 2020. However, it recently announced that it would stop updating its data on 10 March 2023.
