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