Our World in Data

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Our World in Data
PublisherGlobal Change Data Lab
FounderMax Roser
Websiteourworldindata.org
Compilation of graphs from the organization, showing the overall global percentages of the last two centuries, in six factors: Extreme poverty, democracy, basic education, vaccination, literacy, child mortality.

Our World in Data (OWID) is a scientific online publication that focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality.

It is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a registered charity in England and Wales,[1] and founded by Max Roser, a social historian and development economist. The research team is based at the University of Oxford.[2]

Content[]

Global CO2 emissions by world region since 1750
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CO2 emissions per capita from 1900 to 2017.[3]

Our World in Data's mission is to publish “research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems”.[4]

The web publication uses interactive charts and maps to illustrate research findings often taking a long-term view to show how global living conditions have changed over time.

History[]

2011 to 2019[]

Roser began his work on the project in 2011,[5] adding a research team at the University of Oxford later on. In the first years Roser developed the publication together with inequality researcher Sir Tony Atkinson.[5]

joined Our World in Data in 2017 and became Head of Research.[6]

In early 2019, Our World in Data was one of only 3 nonprofit organizations in Y Combinator's Winter 2019 cohort.[7][8]

In 2019, Tyler Cowen and Patrick Collison called for a new academic discipline of 'Progress Studies' that institutionalizes the mission of Our World in Data.[9][10]

In 2019, Our World in Data won the Lovie Award, the European web award, "in recognition of their outstanding use of data and the internet to supply the general public with understandable data-driven research – the kind necessary to invoke social, economic, and environmental change."[11]

Cartogram showing the distribution of the global population. Each of the 15,266 pixels represents the home country of 500,000 people.

2020 to present[]

Since 2020 Our World in Data became one of the leading organizations publishing global data and research on the COVID-19 pandemic:

  • The team built and maintained the global dataset on COVID-19 testing.
    • This data was used by the United Nations, the White House, the World Health Organization and epidemiologists and researchers.[25][26]
    • Our World in Data's COVID-19 testing database was published in Scientific Data.[27]
  • Our World in Data also published data on hospitalizations, excess deaths and other data.[28]
  • All data is updated daily. Google displays this data in the Google Knowledge Graph.[29] Wikipedia also uses this data.

Tim Harford wrote that during the pandemic Our World in Data "performed heroic efforts in assembling clear, usable information from a messy patchwork of primary sources."[30]

The website's visibility largely increased compared to the pre-COVID period.[31] The organization began the pandemic with 6 staff, and grew to 20 by late 2021.[32][33] joined in early 2020 and became Head of Data.[34]

In 2021 the team campaigned for open access to data from the International Energy Agency.[35]

Funding and collaborations[]

Life expectancy in 1800, 1950, and 2015

The first grant to support the research project was given by the Nuffield Foundation, a London-based foundation focused on social policy. The Nuffield Foundation supported as part of their 'Data for the public good' portfolio.

The publication has received funding from grants from the Centre for Effective Altruism, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom and the Nuffield Foundation as well as from individual donations.[36][37]

The non-profit publishes the website and the open-access data tools that make the online publication possible. The research team is based at the University of Oxford's Oxford Martin School. Director is the founder Max Roser.[38]

The research team collaborated with science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt.[39][40]

In the coronavirus pandemic, the team partnered with epidemiologists from Harvard's Chan School of Public Health and the Robert Koch Institute to study countries that have responded successfully in the early phase of the pandemic.[41] Janine Aron and John Muellbauer worked with OWID to research the excess mortality during the pandemic.[42]

Usage[]

Our World in Data is cited in academic scientific journals,[43][44][45][46][47] medicine and global health journals,[48][49] and social science journals.[50] The Washington Post, The New York Times,[51] and The Economist[52] have used Our World in Data as a source.

Tina Rosenberg wrote in The New York Times that Our World in Data presents a "big picture that's an important counterpoint to the constant barrage of negative world news".

See also[]

References[]

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