With my colleagues Hannah Ritchie and Veronika Samborska, we have made a substantial update to our topic page on urbanization. The new page brings together dozens of new charts on where and how people live. It draws on data from the European Commission and the UN, which categorizes cities, towns, and rural areas in a consistent way using satellite imagery…
Source: Our World in Data – A project of Global Change Data Lab
Our World In Data
- We have a new Urbanization topic page
- How does food get traded around the world?
- How much are people across the world paying for their carbon emissions?
- Where do migrants live, and where were they born?
- Five million children die every year — what do they die from?
Climate Change
- Our data scientist Tuna Acisu’s successful quest to continue a 1,200-year-old climate record
- The world is warming despite natural fluctuations from the El Niño cycle
- Hannah Ritchie’s new book, “Clearing the Air”, is out now in the US and Canada
