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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.
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...
138 million children are in child labor. What does this actually mean?
138 million children in the world are in child labor: that was the headline estimate in a report from the United Nations last year....
How primary energy is measured has changed across our charts
Some of the most popular charts on Our World in Data are about energy production and consumption: how much energy countries produce, how they...
What has driven deforestation in the 21st century?
Agriculture has been the main driver of deforestation, but this has been concentrated in only a few commodities: mostly beef, palm oil, soy, and...
We published a new topic page on economic inequality
Public attention to economic inequality has grown a lot over the last twenty years. Alongside, the available data has greatly improved too: estimates now...
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