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Resource use matters, but material footprints are a poor way to measure it (ourworldindata.org)
20 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | past | 5 comments
Foreign aid from the United States saved lives each year (ourworldindata.org)
6 points by kamaraju 2 days ago | past | 1 comment
CO₂ emissions How much CO₂ does the world emit? Which countries emit the most? (ourworldindata.org)
2 points by mhb 11 days ago | past | discuss
Why total fertility rate doesn't reflect the children number women will have (ourworldindata.org)
2 points by avernet 12 days ago | past | discuss
What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on (ourworldindata.org)
710 points by alphabetatango 13 days ago | past | 474 comments
Police Officers per 1k People (ourworldindata.org)
7 points by JumpCrisscross 17 days ago | past
Does the news reflect what we die from? (ourworldindata.org)
2 points by thesaurusse 22 days ago | past
Bans on highly toxic pesticides could save lives from suicide (ourworldindata.org)
9 points by kamaraju 28 days ago | past | 1 comment
A common bacterium that can reduce the spread of dengue fever (ourworldindata.org)
4 points by alphabetatango 35 days ago | past | 1 comment
From candles to electrons: changing lighting sources in the United Kingdom (ourworldindata.org)
1 point by kamaraju 39 days ago | past
California’s driverless taxis transport passengers for more than 4m miles/month (ourworldindata.org)
1 point by alphabetatango 40 days ago | past
Lead concentrations in the blood of children in the United States (ourworldindata.org)
8 points by toomuchtodo 42 days ago | past | 1 comment
How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads (ourworldindata.org)
149 points by sien 50 days ago | past | 265 comments
Global inequality is huge, but high-income countries can support poor people (ourworldindata.org)
1 point by surprisetalk 62 days ago | past
Global inequality is huge – but so is the opportunity to support the poor (ourworldindata.org)
1 point by alphabetatango 64 days ago | past
Meat and Dairy Production (ourworldindata.org)
1 point by hunglee2 64 days ago | past | 2 comments
A new poverty line shifted the World Bank's poverty data (ourworldindata.org)
74 points by alphabetatango 78 days ago | past | 72 comments
Deaths from cardiovascular disease have fallen – the breakthroughs behind this (ourworldindata.org)
3 points by alphabetatango 79 days ago | past
New feature: embed archived versions of our interactive charts in your website (ourworldindata.org)
1 point by kamaraju 84 days ago | past
Breakthroughs behind the drastic fall of cardiovascular death rates (ourworldindata.org)
5 points by epistasis 85 days ago | past
The world left its fight against tuberculosis unfinished (ourworldindata.org)
3 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | past | 3 comments
Percentage of one-person households, 1960 to 2018 (ourworldindata.org)
24 points by E-Reverance 3 months ago | past | 8 comments
The end of tuberculosis that wasn't (ourworldindata.org)
3 points by kamaraju 3 months ago | past
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better (ourworldindata.org)
1 point by pelario 3 months ago | past
The limits of our personal experience and the value of statistics (ourworldindata.org)
12 points by alphabetatango 3 months ago | past
How does the World Bank classify countries by income? (ourworldindata.org)
2 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | past
There's over half billion mobile money accounts in the world, mostly in Africa (ourworldindata.org)
1 point by alphabetatango 3 months ago | past
There are now more than 500M mobile money accounts in the world,mostly in Africa (ourworldindata.org)
3 points by sien 3 months ago | past
Measles leaves children vulnerable to other diseases for years (ourworldindata.org)
9 points by alphabetatango 3 months ago | past | 1 comment
Most of the recent increase in natural disasters is due to improved reporting (ourworldindata.org)
5 points by raffael_de 4 months ago | past

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