Category: Our World in Data
The Our World in Data COVID Vaccination dataset has been published in the academic journal, Nature
At Our World in Data we have been tracking the global rollout of COVID vaccinations since December 2020. It has become the go-to source for internatio [...]
We just published our new work on Coral Reefs
Morrison, T. H., Hughes, T. P., Adger, W. N., Brown, K., Barnett, J., & Lemos, M. C. (2019). Save reefs to rescue all ecosystems. Nature.Burke, L. [...]
Where does the plastic in our oceans come from?
Li, W. C., Tse, H. F., & Fok, L. (2016). Plastic waste in the marine environment: A review of sources, occurrence and effects. Science of the Tota [...]
We just published our new collection of work on Biodiversity
Reuse our work freelyAll visualizations, data, and code produced by Our World in Data are completely open access under the Creative Commons BY license [...]
Wild mammals have declined by 85% since the rise of humans, but there is a possible future where they flourish
To understand how the richness of the mammal kingdom has changed we need a metric that captures a range of different animals and is comparable over ti [...]
What are the carbon opportunity costs of our food?
We get this figure from the change in actual versus potential carbon stocks from current agricultural land. This amounts to 387 gigatonnes of [...]
How much economic growth is necessary to reduce global poverty substantially?
To calculate the minimum growth that is necessary one has to rely on a scenario that would allow the maximal reduction of global poverty under minim [...]
Emerging COVID-19 success story: Vietnam’s commitment to containment
Institutional affiliations:
(i) Partnership for Health Advancement in Vietnam, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
(ii) Oxford University C [...]
Emerging COVID-19 success story: Germany’s push to maintain progress
Institutional affiliations:
(i) Robert Koch Institute
(ii) Health Protection Authority, City of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main
World Bank. [...]
How much of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food?
It is nothing new that estimates of food emissions span a wide spectrum. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Clim [...]