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1 month ago | 
climatechangenews.com | Joe Lo |Hannah Ritchie |Max Roser |Pablo Rosado
Claims by wealthy nations that their new emissions reduction targets for 2035 are compatible with limiting global warming to 1.5C have been questioned by experts concerned about fairness.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Max Roser
Antibiotics are one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the 20th century.1They have revolutionized healthcare by making it possible to effectively treat bacterial infections. Before antibiotics, even minor infections could be life-threatening, and medical procedures and surgeries were much riskier due to the high chance of infection. As a consequence, antibiotics have saved countless lives. But antibiotic resistance challenges their effectiveness.
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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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Dec 2, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Max Roser
Sometimes, the most important news is when something isn’t happening. When an airplane crashes, we all hear about it. Large crashes are major news events, with shocking pictures repeated endlessly across our television screens. What is much harder to notice is the opposite: the absence of plane crashes. A post on X by Ryan Radia made me aware of just how rare plane crashes have become in the United States.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Max Roser
It’s Giving Season. Help us do more with a donation. Daily Data InsightsThe world population grew fast over the last 60 years, but farmers grew fruits and vegetables even fasterFor almost all of human history, food was scarce for nearly everyone. The reason for this perpetual scarcity was that whenever food production increased, it did not lead to more food per capita but to more people. Food production did not increase per capita.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Hannah Ritchie |Max Roser
In some countries, most children and pregnant women are anemic. There are low-cost ways to tackle this. There are few health problems that affect billions of people at any given time. There are even fewer that could be reduced substantially through pretty cheap interventions. Anemia is one of them. Estimates suggest that one in four people globally has anemia; that’s two billion people in total.1 Almost one in three women and almost 40% of all children suffer from it.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | countryby Hannah Ritchie |Hannah Ritchie |Max Roser |Pablo Rosado
Many of us want an overview of how much energy our country consumes, where it comes from, and if we’re making progress on decarbonizing our energy mix. This page provides the data for your chosen country across all of the key metrics on this topic. In the selection box above you can also add or remove additional countries and they will appear on all of the charts on this page. This allows you to compare specific countries you might be interested in, and measure progress against others.
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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.
