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Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: the world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on.
What impact will climate change have on malaria?
Climate change could make a number of infectious diseases worse. I expected malaria would be one of them. That’s concerning, given the huge global...
Is organic farming better for the environment than conventional farming?
Organic farming often wins when we compare impacts on one unit of land, but there is no clear winner when we look at impacts...
Beef production in Brazil has been the largest driver of global deforestation in recent decades
Most beef production in Brazil is to meet domestic rather than international demand. Since the turn of the century, an area of forest five...
The rise of electoral democracy
Most people around the world think democracy is a good way to run a country, but they are often dissatisfied with how it is...
Which countries have already passed peak population, and when will the rest do so?
Many countries around the world are in a unique position in human history: rather than having a constant or growing population, their populations are...
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