Max Roser too made something that he himself wanted: ourworldindata.org/history-of-our…

So many countries resorted to under-testing, undercounting and data suppression as a way of dealing with the COVID pandemic

⁦Max Roser⁩ and team ⁦Our World in Data⁩ offer best practices for government agencies thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…

New theory paper led by Amy Orben on cognitive and neural mechanisms that are developing in adolescence and might make young people particularly vulnerable to aspects of social media

What can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic about how to publish data better?

In a new open-access article for The Lancet Public Health, we @OurWorldinData outline seven key lessons for public agencies and other organizations.

A thread of the highlights:
ourworldindata.org/key-lessons-fr…

In 1990, over 9% of the world's newborns did not survive beyond age five.

By 2021, this child mortality rate had declined to 3.7%.

Thanks to progress in global health, 132 million more people are alive in our world today.

New article by Max Roser → ourworldindata.org/children-saved…

Amazing opportunity here...

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📊New OECD Data: Over 2 million people are experiencing #homelessness in the OECD, but rates differ across countries. We have just released a major data update to our Affordable Housing Database. Explore x-country data on 🏠 #prices , #vacancies , #homelessness , #evictions & more!

I've looked at this post multiple times this evening.

If it seems that *everything* in the world is worse, or that q we study on econ growth, public health, basic service delivery are small/ incremental, it's worth coming back to this. Hard to think of metrics that matter more!

Good news!

The reduction of child mortality is one of the big achievements of our time.

But it is hard to celebrate something that is *not* happening. So, for my new article, I turned things around.

👇This is the main chart and takeaway.

Here is the article: ourworldindata.org/children-saved…

How many human cases of H5N1 have there been historically? We just updated our dataset on this. Find it here: ourworldindata.org/grapher/h5n1-f…

This only shows reported cases — testing to confirm flu subtypes is limited, especially for subtypes like H5N1.

Emissions of substances that deplete the ozone layer have fallen by more than 99% since 1989.

Today's Data Insight by my colleague Esteban Ortiz-Ospina.

→ Here are all our Data Insights: ourworldindata.org/data-insights

Great job working for a fantastic organization. Our World in Data is looking for writers to help turn the evidence and data into compelling and informative narratives.
ourworldindata.org/writer-q2-2024

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