To reduce child mortality, we need to understand what children are dying from. People often ask me for my favorite statistic. My answer changes, depending on what I’m obsessed with at any given moment. But my least favorite has been the same for years: five million children die every year…
Source: Our World in Data is a project of Global Change Data Lab
Our World In Data
- The rise of electoral democracy
- Which countries have already passed peak population, and when will the rest do so?
- 138 million children are in child labor. What does this actually mean?
- How primary energy is measured has changed across our charts
- What has driven deforestation in the 21st century?
Climate Change
- Air conditioning is almost universal in the US and Japan — but not elsewhere
- Hannah Ritchie’s book, Clearing the Air, is coming out in paperback in September
- How do we track a changing climate?
