Audience
Our website is currently (early 2019) accessed by an average of more than one million people every month, and we are very happy about the fact that our readers come from every country in the world.
Our visitors range from students and school children doing their classwork, to journalists, teachers, researchers and policymakers, looking for the data and research to inform their work.
Here we show the number of visitors to Our World in Data from each country over one year.
Coverage
Our work is cited and referenced in hundreds of articles, reports, books, lectures, videos and talks every year.
Here is a short selection of interesting references featuring our work, followed by a complete list covering over 500 references and citations.
Since all our work is open, it is sometimes difficult to keep track of our citations. If you would like to suggest an addition to our list of citations, send us an email to info@ourworldindata.org.
Selection of coverage
We selected a number of examples to give an overview of how our work is used and referenced.
- Jan 06, 2018 – New York Times – Why 2017 Was the Best Year in Human History – by Nicholas Kristof
- Apr 19, 2018 – Financial Times – The world is not as gloomy, or wonderful, as you may think – by Tim Harford
- May 14, 2018 – The New York Times – Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980 – by Austin Frakt
- DeFries, R., & Nagendra, H. (2017). Ecosystem management as a wicked problem. Science, 356(6335), 265-270. Online here.
- Levitt, M., & Levitt, J. M. (2017). Future of fundamental discovery in US biomedical research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(25), 6498-6503. Online here.
- Henderson, J. V., Squires, T., Storeygard, A., & Weil, D. (2017). The global distribution of economic activity: nature, history, and the role of trade. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(1), 357-406. Online here.
- 2018 – Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress – by Steven Pinker
- 2017 – An Introduction to Global Health Delivery by Joia S. Mukherje
- 2018 – Factfulness – by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
- May 15, 2018 – Vlogbrothers – Seven Maps to Better Understand The World – by John Green
- Dec 22, 2016 – Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell – Overpopulation: The Human Explosion Explained
- Oct 02, 2017 – Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee on «Using Testing to Combat Poverty» (SRF Sternstunde Philosophie) (around minute 32.30)
- Apr 30, 2018 – Royal Statistics Society – Risk, statistics and the media: David Spiegelhalter’s IPSO lecture – by David Spiegelhalter
- April 2019 – TED Talk – What are the most important moral problems of our time? – by Will MacAskill
- Feb 6, 2017 — TEDx Talks — With data, the future is different — by Wali Zahid
- April 2019 – TED Talk – Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers – by Steven Pinker
- 2017 – BBC – Don’t Panic: End Poverty – by Hans Rosling and team
- Dec 29, 2017 – NPR Planet Money – The 50-Year Newspaper – by Stacey Vanek Smith and Cardiff Garcia
- Apr 12, 2017 – Freakonomics Radio – Earth 2.0: What Would Our Economy Look Like? – Stephen J. Dubner
Full list of coverage
Here is a full list of all citations we are aware of. Since all our work is open, it is sometimes difficult to keep track of our citations.
If you would like to suggest an addition to our list of citations, send us an email to info@ourworldindata.org.
Magazines, Newspapers & Blogs
Coverage in 2019
November 8 – Los Angeles Times – Column: Mitt Romney takes a dishonest swing at ‘Medicare for all’ – Michael Hiltzik
November 7 – The Conversation – Even the most beautiful maps can be misleading – Samuel Langton
November 7 – The Correspondent – The great paradox of our time: everything is both better and worse than ever before – Rob Wijnberg
November 7 – The Economist – India’s toxic smog is a common affliction in middle-income countries
November 6 – The Washington Post – Opinion | The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago. Its shadow looms large. – Stefan Kornelius, Christian Caryl, Emily Tamkin, Brian Klaas
November 4 – weforum.org – In defence of free market economists
November 4 – Medium – China is much stronger on climate action than western media asserts – Michael Barnard
November 1 – Bloomberg Opinion – Internet Celebrates 50 Years as Humans Increasingly Depend on It – Nathaniel Bullard
October 30 – Bloomberg Opinion – Chile Protests Stoked by Unfulfilled Economic Expectations – Noah Smith
October 30 – Future Farming – Fertiliser feeds half of the world’s population – David Nabhan
October 29 – Medium – In Defense of Pie Charts, and Why You Shouldn’t Use Them – Kristin Henry
October 28 – The Conversation – African countries are behind on progress towards poverty reduction goals
October 24 – Forbes – World Polio Day Showcases Great Progress In Eliminating Polio – Judy Stone
October 23 – Bloomberg Opinion – Economic Growth Shouldn’t Be a Death Sentence for Earth – Noah Smith
October 16 – Nature – Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017 – Roy Burstein, Nathaniel J. Henry, Michael L. Collison, Laurie B. Marczak
October 15 – weforum.org – Smartphone tech could prevent the deaths of six million women and children by 2030 – Kate Kelland
October 14 – Econtalk.org – Andrew McAfee on More from Less – Russ Roberts
October 10 – BBC – Climate change and meat – what’s the beef? – The Briefing Room
October 8 – Project Syndicate – Why We Need More Economists – Roger E.A. Farmer
September 30 – Medical News Today – Brain scans could help predict whether antidepressants will work – Catharine Paddock Ph.D
September 25 – Reuters – Breakingviews – Hadas: Good economy helps with climate change – Edward Hadas
September 20 – Forbes – Caribbean Islands Are The Biggest Plastic Polluters Per Capita In The World – Daphne Ewing-Chow
September 17 – Phys.org – ‘Flight shaming’ could help unleash billions in airline cash to protect the Amazon and other tropical forests – Joshua Emerson Smith
September 7 – The Good Men Project – The Map We Need if We Want to Think About How Global Living Conditions Are Changing
September 4 – Yahoo Finance – Here’s how to capitalize on the electric car revolution – without buying Tesla – Jeff Reeves
September 3 – Prospect Magazine – Prospect world’s top thinkers, 2019: the top ten – Sameer Rahim
August 20 – Vox – We’ve worried about overpopulation for centuries. And we’ve always been wrong. – Kelsey Piper
August 12 – Bloomberg Opinion – Tourism Is Overwhelming the World’s Top Destinations – Noah Smith
August 6 – Bloomberg News – How Android Paved the Way for the Smartphone Revolution – Shira Ovide
July 24 – Forbes – Want To Get More Innovative With Your Team? Here’s Where You Need To Focus. – Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj
July 10 – El Pais – Análisis | ¿Quién será el rival de Trump en 2020? Así van las primarias demócratas – Kiko Llaneras
July 7 – The Good Men Project – Which Countries Achieved Economic Growth? And Why Does it Matter?
July 1 – New Internationalist – Progress and its discontents
June 28 – Australian Broadcasting Corporation News – How mass production lines, the invention of refrigeration and food safety changed the way we eat meat – Jess Davis
June 28 – Axios – Axios World – July 1, 2019 – Axios – Shane Savitsky
June 24 – The Conversation – Is Facebook today’s Compuserve? How Libra could hasten its demise – Marc-David L. Seidel
June 21 – Medium – Nigerian Youth Suicides: A call for holistic reforms
June 20 – MarketWatch – Select Our children could live to witness the end of global population growth – Shawn Langlois
June 19 – France 24 – France has lowest levels of trust in vaccines globally
June 14 – Bored Panda – Bill Gates Posts Data Of Causes Of Death In The US, Is Amazed By The Disconnect Between News And Reality – Li Nefas
June 9 – The Good Men Project – Global Poverty Reduction Is Slowing–but There’s a Solution
June 8 – Le Figaro – USA: ce dont on meurt, ce dont parlent les médias
June 7 – The Telegraph (India) – Niti Aayog health report: Some states fared almost as badly as Afghanistan on some indicators – Vishal Narayan
June 6 – The Daily Wire – CHART: Here’s What Americans Actually Die From Compared To What Deaths They Search On Google And What The Media Reports – Ashe Schow
June 5 – conscienhealth.org – Red or White, Too Much Meat Can Be a Problem
June 5 – weforum.org – 5 ways to #BeatAirPollution – Emma Charlton
June 3 – wesmoss.com – America’s Growth And Resilience Despite Periods Of Adversity – Wes Moss, Elizabeth Kelly
May 31 – RedState.com – There’s a Huge Difference In What We Die From and What the Media Reports that We Die From – Brandon Morse
May 30 – Salon – Malaysia is sending its trash back to the United States – Nicole Karlis
May 26 – El Pais – La polución latinoamericana y sus muertes – Jorge Galindo
May 22 – The Gurardian – Capitalism used to promise a better future. Can it still do that? – Richard Reeves
May 15 – The Conversation – Inégalités face au changement climatique : la balle est dans le camp des plus riches – Anda David, Étienne Espagne, Nicolas Longuet Marx
May 9 – Vox – How humanity is winning the war on child mortality, in one chart – Kelsey Piper
May 8 – The Washington Post – Populism in Canada is muted. But it’s still a threat. – David Moscrop
May 7 – Psychology Today – How to Be More Positive – Gustavo Razzetti
May 3 – Nasdaq – Pessimists Never Prosper: Try an Abundance Mindset Instead – Deborah L. Meyer
May 2 – BBC – The Greta effect? Meet the schoolgirl climate warriors – Joshua Nevett
Apr 29 – The Wall Street Journal – Why Women Live Longer Than Men – Heidi Mitchell
Apr 26 – Guardian – If the house is on fire, who has the ‘flying water tankers’? – Mark Rice-Oxley
Apr 24 – Vox – Malaria is among the world’s biggest killers of children. Now there’s a vaccine. – Kelsey Piper
Apr 9 – Stuff.co.nz – New Zealand is only the 5th greenest in Asia-Pacific, let down by our plastic waste – Michael Daly
Apr 8 – BBC – Vegan protests: ‘Un-Australian’ activists arrested, PM Morrison says
Mar 29 – The Scotsman – Brexit: Some facts to ponder on today’s lapsed landmark – Leader Comment
Mar 26 – Forbes – A Warmer World Is A Hungrier World – James Conca
Mar 19 – Men’s Health – Why the World Is Doing Better Than You Think, According to Steven Pinker – Josh St. Clair
Mar 18 – El Pais – Muere un ballenato por ‘shock’ después de tragar 40 kilos de plástico – Jorge Galindo
Mar 8 – Bloomberg News – Philippines 17.5 Billion Shopping Bags Create Plastic Waste Mess – Cecilia Yap
Mar 7 – Sydney Morning Herald – Bill Gates is right about poverty, the world really is getting richer – Noah Smith
Mar 7 – Bloomberg Opinion – The World Really Is Getting Richer as Poor Countries Catch Up – Noah Smith
Mar 5 – BBC – What do the people of the world die from? – Hannah Ritchie
Feb 22 – The Wall Street Journal – Is the World Actually Getting Better? – Irving Wladawsky-Berger
Feb 20 – Michigan News – Earth may be 140 years away from reaching carbon levels not seen in 56 million years – Jim Erickson
Feb 18 – Scientific American – Revolt against the Rich – John Horgan
Feb 14 – Medium – How Software is Destroying Jobs and Improving our Lives – Michael Flaxman
Feb 13 – Bloomberg – Rich Americans Might Head to Canada If U.S. Raises Taxes a Lot – Noah Smith
Feb 12 – Vox – Bill Gates tweeted out a chart and sparked a huge debate about global poverty – Dylan Matthews
Feb 9 – UOL – Carne na alimentação: quais países lideram o ranking? – Hannah Ritchie
Feb 4 – New York Times – Giant Strides in World Health, but It Could Be So Much Better – Austin Frakt and Aaron E. Carroll
Feb 4 – BBC Mundo – Qué países del mundo consumen más carne (y hay uno de Latinoamérica) – Hannah Ritchie
Feb 4 – BBC – Which countries eat the most meat? – Hannah Ritchie
Feb 1 – Medium – How Technology is Fixing the Broken Patient Journey — Part 1 – Beatrice Aliprandi
Jan 22 – Vox – Are 26 billionaires worth more than half the planet? The debate, explained – Dylan Matthews
Jan 22 – Forbes Slovakia – Nebuďte takí pesimisti. Naša planéta sa nerúti do záhuby, tu je 16 dôkazov (Don’t be so pessimistic. Our planet is not in ruin, there are 16 proofs) – Lucia Vanková
Jan 19 – New Zealand Herald – Seven charts that show the world is actually becoming a better place –
Jan 16 – Daily Mail – Seven incredible charts that prove the world IS becoming a better place – despite all the doom and gloom – Valerie Bauman
Jan 11 – El Universal – ¿Combatir el cambio climático?: Sí. ¿Generar más empleos?: También (Combat climate change? Yes. Generate more jobs? Also – Sandra Herrera López
Jan 8 – Financial Times – Household food spending divides the world – Michael Kavanagh
Jan 7 – Asian Correspondent – Seven charts that show the world is actually becoming a better place –
Jan 7 – FOCUS Online – US-Journalist: Darum war 2018 das beste Jahr der Menschheitsgeschichte (US Journalist: That’s why 2018 was the best year in human history)
Jan 5 – New York Times – Why 2018 Was the Best Year in Human History – Nicholas Kristof
Jan 5 – Quartz – The best data visualization in 2018, according to data visualization experts – Dan Kopf
Jan 4 – The Conversation – Seven charts that show the world is actually becoming a better place –
Coverage in 2018
Dec 31 – Le Monde – Steven Pinker : “Notre pessimisme nous conduit à croire que tout effort pour améliorer le monde est une perte de temps” (“Our pessimism leads us to believe that any effort to improve the world is a waste of time”) – Marc-Olivier Bherer
Dec 30 – Irish Times – Reasons to be cheerful amid globalisation and rising inequality – Chris Johns
Dec 29 – Channel NewsAsia – Malaysia moves to reap the benefits of processing global plastic waste – Aqil Haziq Mahmud
Dec 28 – Psychology Today – What to Tell Our Kids About the State of the World – Ralph Lewis
Dec 24 – n-tv – Und die Welt wird doch besser (And the world is getting better) – Von Gudula Hörr
Dec 24 – Volksstimme – So schlimm ist es gar nicht (It’s not that bad) – Alois Kösters
Dec 24- Reuters – World will improve where it matters most in 2019 – Edward Hadas
Dec 21 – Bloomberg – 2018 in Charts: the Year in Climate, Energy and Cars – Nathaniel Bullard
Dec 19 – Reuters – Trade slowdown coming at worst time for world economy, markets – Jamie McGeever
Dec 18 – The Conversation – The glass is more than half full – Robert Stavins
Dec 17 – World Economic Forum – Vegan diets could be adding to malnutrition in wealthy countries – via The Conversation
Dec 12 – TechRepublic – Smart farming: How IoT, robotics, and AI are tackling one of the biggest problems of the century – Charles McLellan
Dec 12 – Faithwire – It’s Not All Bad: 8 Statistics That Prove The World Is Getting Better
Dec 8 – New York Post – Pope Francis has misguided ideas about poverty – Steven W. Mosher
Dec 4 – Ritholtz – Urbanization Over the Past 500 Years – Barry Ritholtz
Nov 30 – Barrons – A Toast to J.D. Wetherspoon – Simon Constable
Nov 29 – Big Think – Canadian healthcare system shows how much money America could save – Kevin Dickinson
Nov 28 – Videnskab – Se, hvilken massiv gavn vacciner har gjort indtil videre (See what massive benefit vaccines have produced so far) – Thomas Hoffmann
Nov 27 – Landscape News – Ending poverty and achieving sustainable development by 2030 – Gabrielle Lipton
Nov 23 – World Economic Forum – Is income inequality rising around the world? – Joe Hasell
Nov 23 – Psychology today – How the World is Becoming Better – Iddo Landau
Nov 22 – Forbes – What are You Thankful For? Here are Five Awesome Global Trends – Art Carden
Nov 22 – Euro News – QUIZ: So you think you know about plastic pollution? – Camille Bello
Nov 16 – Big think – 7 scientists we are thankful for this Thanksgiving – Kevin Dickinson
Nov 15 – Merion West – Is Steven Pinker Wrong About Violence Declining? – Henry George
Nov 13 – Index – Puljak objasnio zašto bismo se više trebali bojati čokolade nego terorista (Puljak explained why we should be more afraid of chocolate than terrorists) – Nenad Jarić Dauenhauer
Nov 7 – Corriere – Il declino italiano si legge nei libri (The Italian decline can be read in books) – Danilo Taino
Nov 5 – Visual Capitalist – Mapping the World’s Urban Population in 2050 – Iman Ghosh
Oct 30 – New Scientist – A freak 1870s climate event caused drought across three continents – Michael Marshall
Oct 29 – Initiative for Free Trade – The Secret of Eternal Growth – Michael Liebreich
Oct 26 – Bloomberg – Maybe We Should Take Socialism Seriously – Noah Smith
Oct 23 – World Economic Forum – 90% of table salt is contaminated with micro plastics, according to a new report – Julia Conley
Oct 8 – Livemint – We need positive change to know what’s possible: Max Roser – Sunaina Kumar
Oct 4 – Indian Express – Suicide kills more people than war every year: Survey – by their Lifestyle Desk
Oct – New Learning Times – Find Data Visualizations and Sources Through Our World in Data – Ryan Allen
Sep 25 – Theory and practice – Находка T&P: карта, где территория стран соответствует числу жителей (map, where the territory of the country corresponds to the number of inhabitants)
Sep 25 – Arabic post – Human and population maps, not countries and geography, are what we need to know where humans are densely located on the planet
Sep 19 – Bloomberg – Saving the Planet Doesn’t Mean Killing Economic Growth – Noah Smith
Sep 18 – infobae – 8 gráficos que muestran el pasado, explican el presente y vaticinan el futuro – Editorial Team
Sep 18 – Daily Maverick – Scientists seek to subject us to socialism – Ivo Vegter
Sep 17 – Vanguardia – Pablo y los pobres (Pablo and the poor) – by José De Nigris Felán
Sep 15 – Inverse – Japan’s Gender Gap for Centenarians is getting bigger – Peter Hess
Sep 14 – Daily FT – The peril of low “economic complexity”: Endangering Sri Lanka’s future prosperity
Sep 13 – Kottke – A Map of the World Where the Sizes of Countries Are Determined by Population – Jason Kottke
Sep 8 – Heavy – International Literacy Day 2018: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know – by Erin Laviola
Aug 20 – Videnskab – Har verden brug for at blive reddet?” (Does the world have to be saved?) – Thomas Hoffmann
Aug 17 – Financial Times – Why all things are not equal in the measure of inequality – Tim Harford (Also published on his personal blog)
Aug 15 – L’Obs – Nous vivons la meilleure période de toute l’histoire de l’humanité (We are living in the best period of human history) – Clément Lacombe & Rémi Noyon
Aug 9 – Irish Times – How to combat climate change – Rob Sadlier
Aug 3 – Wall Street Journal – Some Good News – About Natural Disasters, of All Things – Roger Pielke Jr.
Aug 2 – Handelszeitung – Wo die Steuerlast besonders hoch ist – and wo tief (Where the tax burden is especially high – and where low) – Editorial team
Jul 29 – Kurier – Warum wir uns trotz guter Nachrichten fürchten (Why we are scared despite good news) – Ute Brühl
Jul 28 – Tech Crunch – The Not Company is looking to start a food revolution from Chile – by Jonathan Shieber
Jul 26 – Reuters – U.S. radicals are a fit for EU mainstream – Edward Hadas
Jul 23 – The New Yorker – Are Things Getting Better or Worse? – by Joshua Rothman
Jul 21 – HN Online – Nevhodné pre pesimistov: Päť dôvodov, ktoré vás presvedčia, že svet nemieri do záhuby (Unsuitable for pessimists: Five reasons to convince you that the world is not destroying itself) – by Stanislava Luppová
Jul 18 – The Telegraph – Global health progress report: is the human race doomed or in bloom? – by Aisha Majid
Jul 12 – Global Investigative Journalism Network – GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: Deadly Cycling Cities, GIFs with a Bang and Sustainable Development – by Eunice Au
Jul 8 – Info Technology – Quién es el nuevo economista favorito de Bill Gates y qué piensa
Jul 5 – IISD – SDG-Tracker.org Releases New Resources – by Faye Leone
Jun 30 – Huffington Post – “Verstand verloren”: Ökonom zerlegt mit einem Tweet die “Spiegel”-Titelgeschichte (Out of their mind: Economist destroys the Spiegel’s title story with a tweet) – by editorial team
Jun 29 – Fonds nieuws – Eerste ‘tracker’ die progressie op SDG’s per land volgt – by editorial team
Jun 29 – Le Vif – Trois choses que vous devriez savoir pour mieux comprendre le monde d’aujourd’hui – by Marie Gathon
Jun 28 – People’s Pundit Daily – The Western World’s Most Depressing Chart – by Daniel Mitchell
Jun 28 – CNBC – Bill Gates: Everyone should know these 3 facts – by Catherine Clifford
Jun 26 – Gates Notes – Memorizing these three statistics will help you understand the world – by Max Roser
Jun 25 – Science Trends – Adapting the Narrative of climate Change and Renewable Energy – by Palash Sanyal
Jun 24 – Slate Star Codex – Book Review: Capital in the Twenty-First Century – by Scott Alexander
Jun 17 – El País – Entrevista Steven Pinker: “Los populistas están en el lado oscuro de la historia (The populists are on the dark side of history) – by Jan Martínez Ahrens
Jun 15 – PC Mag UK – A Century of Tech Adoption in a Single Graph – by Rob Marvin
Jun 6 – KSL – What Medicare, Social Security solvency report mean for you – by Carter Williams
May 31 – VOX – A genetically modified organism could end malaria and save millions of lives — if we decide to use it – by Dylan Matthews
May 28 – Index – Jesu li jugonostalgičari u pravu? Je li prije zaista bilo bolje? (Are the Southeast Asians right? Was it really better before?) – by Nenad Jarić Dauenhauer
May 23 – El País – Los números explican el mundo – by Kiko Llaneras
May 18 – World Economic Forum – This is how working hours have changed since the 19th century – by Max Roser
May 14 – The New York Times – Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980 – by Austin Frakt
May 13 – Museum of Military History Dresden – Moving impressions of trends of population, military and civil violence, poverty, literacy, and democratization. – via Mirko Clemente’s Twitter
Apr 30 – Royal Statistics Society – Risk, statistics and the media: David Spiegelhalter’s IPSO lecture – by David Spiegelhalter
Apr 24 – Forskning – Nordmenn best i verden på å slappe av (Norwegians are best in the world to relax) – by Bård Amundsen
Apr 21 (discovery date as article undated) – WeekendSwitzer – 5 ways women are remaking the global economy – by Fi Bendall
Apr 20 – Financial Times – The world is not as gloomy, or wonderful, as you may think – by Tim Harford
Apr 16 – El Gato y La Caja – Pescado podrido (Rotten fish) – by Guadalupe Nogués
Apr 15 – Der Spiegel – Die Welt wird besser – es will nur kaum jemand glauben (The world is getting better – but hardly anyone wants to believe it) – by Christian Stöcker
Apr 13 – Financial Times – FT Health: Why ‘sin taxes’ are good economics – by Darren Dodd and Andrew Jack
Apr 13 – Pathways for Prosperity – Can machine learning predict poverty? – by Sophie Ochmann
Apr 12 – Dinero – Mutando eslogan</> (Changing slogan) – by Alberto Carrasquilla
Apr 11 – NASA Earth Observatory – Finding New Ways to Feed the World – by Adam Voiland
Apr 10 – The New York Times – Scared by the News? Take the Long View: Progress Gets Overlooked – by David Bornstein
Apr 9 – Financial Times – Japan’s economic miracle – by Dan McCrum
Apr 9 – Curiosity – Improving World Health Will Reduce Overpopulation, Not Make It Worse – by Ashley Hamer
Apr 9 – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – Die Welt wird immer besser (The world is getting better and better) – by Hans Rolling
Apr 6 – Next big future – Population projections of 11.2 billion in 2100 imagines dropping birth rate in Africa but 16 billion more likely – by Brian Wang
Apri 5 – Morbidity, Peak Child, And Collective Pessimism – NPR podcast The Indicator interviews Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser of Our World in Data
Apr 3 – Carbon Brief – Limiting global warming to 1.5C would have ‘significant economic benefits’ – by Jocelyn Timperley
Mar 28 – Il Post (Italy) – Una vecchia alla finestra (An old woman at the window) – by Giacomo Papi
Mar 27 – Breakthrough Institute – Organic or conventional farming? Wrong question – by Hannah Ritchie of Our World in Data
Mar 27 – IISD – SDG-Tracker: Tracking Global Progress Towards the 17 Goals – by Hannah Ritchie of Our World in Data
Mar 26 – Futurism – This UN Tracker Shows That Even Far-Fetched Voluntary Pledges Actually Make a Difference – by Lou Del Bello
Mar 23 – 17 Goals – The SDG Tracker: Charts, Graphs and Data at your Fingertips – by the 17Goals Editor
Mar 22 – IISD – SDG Tracker Fosters Engagement with Indicator Data – by Faye Leone
Mar 22 – National Public Radio – The U.N. Set 17 Goals To Make The World A Better Place. How’s It Doing? – by Joanne Lu
Mar 20 – Info Data (Italy) – Scopri la tecnologia che è entrata più velocemente nelle nostre case (Discover the technology that has entered fastest in our homes) – by Luca Tremolada
Mar 17 – Spiegel Online (Germany) – Angst: Das It-Girl unter den Gefühlen (Fear: The It-girl among all feelings) – by Sibylle Berg
Mar 17 – Origo (Hungary) – Elképesztő ábrák, amelyek bemutatják a világ fejlődését (Impressive figures that show the evolution of the world) – by Origo
Mar 16 – Bloomberg – The Population Bomb Has Been Defused – by Noah Smith
Mar 15 – Project Syndicate – A Trade War On the World’s Poorest – by Bjørn Lomborg
Mar 9 – New York Magazine – The World Is Better Than Ever. Why Are We Miserable? – by Andrew Sullivan
Mar 8 – coreecon – Learning by “Doing Economics” – by Tim Phillips
Mar 2 – Financial Times – Orphan diseases move into the spotlight – by Andrew Jack and Darren Dodd
Feb – Mega Online – Power to the people – by MEGA
Feb 28 – Visual Capitalist – These 6 Eye-Popping Charts Show How the World is Improving – by Jeff Desjardins
Feb 28 – El confidencial (Spain) – Los países nórdicos se desarrollaron antes del Estado de bienestar (The Nordic countries developed before the welfare state) – by Juan Ramón Rallo
Feb 23 – New Scientist – We may be overdue a massive war, says a statistical analysis – by Andy Coghlan
Feb 22 – Gazeta do Povo (Brazil) – O segredo dos países mais honestos do mundo (The secret of the most honest country in the world) – by Tiago Cordeiro
Feb 22 – Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil) – Do que morre o mundo (What the world dies of) – by Roberto Lameirinhas
Feb 21 – VTM News (Belgium) – Dit zijn belangrijkste doodsoorzaken (These are the most important causes of death) – by Rob van Herck
Feb 21 – P Magazine (Belgium) – Hieraan sterven belgen het vaakst (This is what Belgians die of most frequently) – by P-Magazine
Feb 14 – Visual Capitalist – The Rising Speed of Technological Adoption – by Jeff Desjardins
Feb 13 – Gates notes – 10 tough questions we get asked – The annual Gates Letter by Bill and Melinda Gates
Feb 13 – Republik (Switzerland) – Warum so pessimistisch? – by Olivia Kühni
With a follow-up on March 14 Warum so pessimistisch? Teil II
Feb 09 – Wall Street Journal – The Enlightenment is working – by Steven Pinker
Feb 08 – Infogram – 15 Twitter Accounts to Follow for Stats and Facts – by Marisa Krystian
Feb 08 – Bank of Canada – At the Crossroads: Innovation and Inclusive Growth – by Carolyn A. Wilkins
Feb 06 – Merci Alfred – La Loi du plus Sympa
Feb 02 – Unherd – UnHerd’s optimists: the thinkers insisting we’ve never had it so good – by Oliver Kamm
Feb 02 – VOX – The global top 1 percent earned twice as much as the bottom 50 percent in recent years – by Dylan Matthews
Feb 01 – Datawrapper – Our world in the long term – by Lisa Charlotte Rost
Jan 31 – El definido – El mundo va de mal en peor? Estos datos te convencerán de lo contrario – by Macarena Fernández
Jan 29 – El país (Brazil) – Como você descreveria seu dia hoje? Os países mais otimistas não são os que você imagina – by Kiko Llaneras
Jan 28 – El Comercio – Más ricos significa más desigualdad? – by César Augusto Sosa
Jan 26 – Green Matters – Emmanuel Macron Promises Coal Power Plants Will Shut Down in France By 2021 – by Aimee Lutkin
Jan 25 – El País – Los gráficos que muestran el avance espectacular de la humanidad en los últimos dos siglos – by Jaime Rubio Hancock
Jan 24 – NPR – Why The Internet Loves And Hates Oxfam’s Global Inequality Report – by Tom Murphy
Jan 19 – Wall Street Journal – Review: Going Beyond the Limits of the Earth With “The Wizard and the Prophet” – by William Easterly
Jan 18 – Uses This – Uses This: Jaiden Mispy – Interview with the developer in our team
Jan 12 – Chicago Tribune – Was 2017 ‘The Best Year in Human History’? – by Editorial Board
Jan 07 – VOX – 9 ways the world got a lot better in 2017 – by Charles Kenny
Jan 06 – New York Times – Why 2017 Was the Best Year in Human History – by Nicholas Kristof
Jan 04 – Le Monde – 2018, année optimiste? Enquête sur les raisons de se réjouir (2018, an optimistic year? Investigation reasons to rejoice) – Fréderic Joignot
Jan 03 – RTK Live – SHQIPËRIA NDËR TË PARËT NË BOTË PËR KONSUMIN E PATATES
Coverage in 2017
Dec 31 – CNBC – Barack Obama: 2017 has been a tough year, but here’s what to look forward to in 2018 – by Ruth Umoh
Dec 31 – El Mundo – Todo va bien menos la política – by Arcadi Espada
Dec 28 – Financial Times – A year in charts: From bitcoin to Trump and chess playing robots – by Tim Harford
Dec 20 – Buzzfeed – 2017 Wasn’t Entirely Terrible: Disasters Are Causing Fewer Deaths Than They Used To – by Peter Aldhous
Dec 19 – Die ZEIT – Spenden: Daten gegen Armut – by Johannes Haushofer, Dina Pomeranz, Max Roser und Frank Schilbach
Dec 19 – Marginal Revolution – Political incorrect paper of the day: Food deserts – by Alex Tabarrok
Dec 18 – World Bank – Year in Review: 2017 in 12 Charts – by Donna Barne and Tariq Khokhar
Dec 15 – The Conversation – How Latin America bucked the trend of rising inequality – by Alice Evans
Dec 15 – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) – Arm und Reich nähern sich an
Dec 11 – inesad – The number of people in extreme poverty fell by 137,000 since yesterday – by Lykke E. Andersen
Dec 11 – The Guardian – Mass starvation is humanity’s fate if we keep flogging the land to death – by George Monbiot
Dec 08 – Vanguardia – Conozca cuáles son las vacunas que un adulto debe aplicarse – by Daniel Ávila León
Dec 06 – The conversation – Survey shows gloomy public wrong about crime, immigrants, and teen pregnancies – by Bobby Duffy
Dec 06 – Eyewitness News – Emerging economies might be deindustrialising too quickly
Nov 30 – Forbes – Why the World is Getting Better And Why Hardly Anyone Knows It – by Steve Denning
Nov 29 – World Economic Forum – Emerging economies might be deindustrializing too quickly
Nov 28 – The conversation – Peut-on encore croire au progrès social? – by Göran Therborn and Marc Fleurbaey
Nov 28 – Tagesanzeiger – Die Reichen waren auch schon reicher – by Ralph Pöhner
Nov 24 – World Economic Forum Three-quarters of antibiotics are used on animals. Here’s why that’s a major problem
Nov 23 – Reuters Breaking views – Be thankful for good economic news – by Edward Hadas
Nov 23 – Global Carbon Project Startpage – Visualizations
Nov 23 – Neue Zürcher Zeitung – Wie sich Essgewohnheiten weltweit verändern – by Alexandra Kohler
Nov 22 – Corriere – La strategia di Kyoto dagli esiti modesti – by Danilo Taino
Nov 22 – VOX – This Thanksgiving, be thankful for these 6 ways the world is getting better – by German Lopez
Nov 21 – Inverse – How Much Do Humans Eat? – by Sarah Sloat
Nov 15 – Bloomberg – Free-market failure has been greatly exaggerated – by Noah Smith
Nov 13 – India times – Air pollution: Is the worst over for India?
Nov 12 – IDN Times – 9 Grafik Ilmiah Ini Menunjukkan Bahwa Kondisi Dunia Semakin Membaik – by Bayu D. Wicaksono
Nov 09 – Quartz – One region is growing older a lot faster than anywhere else in the world – by Dan Kopf
Nov 09 – CNBC – Why being great is so much harder than people realize – by Michael Simmons
Nov 09 – Latin American Post – New Technology: Neither Feared Nor Trusted – by Noah Smith
Nov 09 – Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings – Only as Strong as the Weakest Link: Global Food Supply Chains – by Howard-Yana Shapiro
Nov 07 – Aeon – War once helped build nations, now it destroys them – by Mark Kukis
Oct 31 – Makronom – These economists and journalists currently have the biggest impact on Twitter – by Christian Odendahl & Philipp Stachelsky
Oct 30 – Deutscher Arbeitgeber Verband – Homo sapiens: Sündenfall oder Hoffnung? – by Martin Schlumpf
Oct 26 – Metamoderna – Jordan Peterson and Camille Paglia – A Marathon of Academic Incompetence – by Hanzi Freinacht
Oct 23 – El Mundo – Steven Pinker: “Los progresistas detestan el progreso” – by Cayetana Alvarez De Toledo
Oct 17 – Business Insider (UK) – A top economist just put the fight against poverty in stunning perspective – by Chris Weller
Oct 06 – World Economic Forum – Every person in London now breathes dangerous levels of toxic air – by John McKenna
Oct 06 – Motherboard – It all goes back to the history of the X-15 A-2, an unmistakable rocket-powered product of its moment. – by Caroline Haskins
Sept 27 – Huffington Post – Conservation Efforts Helped by Farmers Using Cell Phones by Laurie Marker
Sept 21 – Cause and Effect – Invisible effects, invisible causes – by Felix Salmon
Sept 19 – Taz.de (Germany) – Das beste Deutschland aller Zeiten
Sept 18 – World Economic Forum – You’re probably wrong about other people’s happiness
Sept 15 – World Economic Forum – After 35 years with the UN, here’s what I learned – by Yoriko Yasukawa
Sept 12 – World Economic Forum – In 10 years, the world may not be able to feed itself – by Abdi Latif Dahir
Sept 12 – The Most Important Thing We Can Do to Prepare for Weather Extremes – by Jason Lloyd, Alex Trembath
Sept 09 – Gazeta Do Povo (Brazil) – O QI brasileiro pode estar diminuindo, e a culpa é da escola – by Gabriel de Arruda Castro
Sept 08 – Financial Times (UK) – FT Health: Stem cells — pushing the boundaries – by Darren Dodd
Aug 31 – New York Times – Hurricanes, Climate and the Capitalist Offset – by Bret Stephens
Aug 31 – Marginal Revolution – Is storm damage getting worse? – by Tyler Cowen
Aug 28 – Tygodnik Powszechny (Poland) – ŻYJEMY W NAJLEPSZYCH CZASACH – by Marcin Napiorkowski
Aug 11 – The Washington Post (US) – Why income inequality is so much worse in the U.S. than in other rich countries – by Catherine Rampell
Aug 08 – Markonom (Germany) – Is globalization a driving force for economic development? – by Esteban Ortiz-Ospina
Aug 03 – Gigazine (Japan) – 最も健康への影響が少ないエネルギー源はデータだけで見ると「原子力発電」
Aug 01 – Platforma (Ukraine) – Куда не катимся: почему жизнь на Земле становится только лучше – by Bogdan Miftahov
Aug – Graziadio Business Review – The Great Escape from Global Poverty – by Walker Wright
July 27 – World Economic Forum – More people live inside this circle than outside it – and other demographic data you should know – by Cristina Casabón
July 25 – The Big Picture (rithotz.com) – How Many Deaths Are Newsworthy…? – by Barry Ritholtz
July 24 – Marginal Revolution – Newsworthy Deaths – by Alex Tabarrok
July 23 – Quilette – Some Countries Are Much Richer Than Others. Is That Unjust? – by Jonny Anomaly, Hrishikesh Joshi
July 17 – Business Insider (Germany) – Eine beeindruckende Grafik zeigt, dass wir in der friedlichsten Zeit der vergangenen Jahrhunderte leben – by Felix Rentzsch
July 13 – The Conversation – What’s behind the sudden rise in measles deaths in Europe? – by Anita Milicic, Samantha Vanderslott, Sarah Loving
July 04 – Consultancy.uk (UK) – Global CO2 emissions and the 20 most polluting countries in the world
July – Alumniportal (Germany) – Economist Max Roser: “We overstate the negative” – by Friederike Bauer
June 30 – Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Germany) – Zuversichtlich in die Zukunft – aber nicht zurücklehnen! – by Stefan Stahlberg
June 18 – Scientias – De antibioticaresistentie te lift: dag antibiotica, hallo fagen! – by Anouk Schuren
June 15 – El Economista – ¿Ahora la gente tiene más en común con los CEO que antes? – by Ruy Alonso Rebolledo
June 13 – Visão (Portugal) – O Mundo está hoje muito melhor – by Adolfo Mesquita Nunes
June – SPAG – Is the World Going Down the Gurgler? (pg 32) – by Vicki Nunn
May 24 – CTXT (Spain) – Un futuro para las mayorías – by Ivan Krastev
May 11 – Frankfurter Allgemeine – Wie gut es uns geht! – by Marc Felix Serrao
May 09 – Focus Online (Germany) – Grafiken beweisen eindrucksvoll: Nie zuvor war die Welt besser
May 08 – Magnet – El ránking de los países más cárnico-dependientes del mundo, las gastronomías-pesadilla de cualquier vegano – by Eduardo Archanco
May 01 – The Independent (UK) – Despite Scepticism, Europe Has High Vaccination Rates – But It Shouldn’t be Complacent – by Samantha Vanderslott
Apr 21 – Frankfurter Allgemeine (Germany) – Besser als gedacht – by Patrick Bernau
Apr 16 – Indy100 – Two maps that will make you feel better about the world – by Bridie Pearson-Jones
Mar 24 – Foreign Policy – Infographic: How Does U.S. Health Care Stack Up to the Developed World? – by Robbie Gramer
Mar 22 – Mercado – El estado del mundo en seis grandes temas
Mar 20 – The Telegraph – International Day of Happiness: 45 joyous things that will make you instantly happy
Mar 15 – Conversable Economist – US Health Care: The Case For Going Upstream – by Timothy Taylor
Mar 15 – La Nación – La globalización no tiene la culpa – by Juan J. Llach
Mar 08 – The Washington Post (US) – This chart is a powerful indictment of our current health-care system – by Christopher Ingraham
Mar 05 – Huffington Post (Germany) – Mit dieser Grafik zeigt Bill Gates, dass die Welt viel besser ist, als wir glauben
Feb – The Foreign Service Journal by the American Foreign Service Association – Site of the month: Our WorldInData.org
Feb 23 – Future World Foundation – Global Extreme Poverty
Feb 23 – Business Insider (Germany) – 4 charts Bill Gates loves because they prove the world is getting better – by Chris Weller
Feb 23 – L’Obs (France) – 90 ans d’espérance de vie en 2030 : une étude trop optimiste? – by Timothée Vilars
Feb 22 – Cash (Switzerland) – Zehn Gründe, die Welt positiver zu sehen – by Pascal Züger
Feb 22 – the Sun Daily (Malaysia) – Trump’s trade challenge and opportunity – by Tan Siok Choo
Feb 14 – digg (US) – The Decrease In Child Mortality Since 1990 Is Equal To Averting 27 Major Plane Crashes Every Day
Feb 11 – World Economic Forum – This is one of the biggest threats to international security – and it’s not what you think – by Stéphanie Thomson
Feb 9 – NZHerald (New Zealand) – Five places you wouldn’t visit 10 years ago
Feb 8 – Adam Smith Institute (UK) – Sadly, Hans Rosling Has Died – by Tim Worstall
Feb 7 – CapX (US) – Trump and Bannon see the world through blood-spattered spectacles – by Robert Colvile
Feb 3 – Finanz und Wirtschaft (Switzerland) – Doch, doch, die Welt wird besser – by Mark Dittli
Feb – Schweizer Monat (Germany) – Der Kartograph von Oxford – by Olivia Kühni, Max Roser
Jan 28 – Tichys Einblick (Germany) – Von Malthus zum Ökologismus: Pessimismus – by Von Peter Heller
Jan 27 – Libre Mercado (Spain) – Cinco gráficos para el Papa – by Manuel Llamas
Jan 26 – En Perpectiva (Uruguay) – El polémico informe de Oxfam sobre riqueza y desigualdad en el mundo
Jan 21 – Economia Online (Portugal) – O mundo (e Portugal) está assim tão mal? – by Marta Santos Silva
Jan 20 – IntraMed (Argentina) – El dramático problema del suicidio en el mundo
Jan 17 – Financial Times (UK) – The problem with US healthcare in one chart by Federica Cocco
Jan 17 – Financial Times (UK) – The problem with US healthcare in one chart – by Federica Cocco
Jan 17 – akzente (Germany) – ‘We Overstate the Negative’ (interview with Max Roser)
Jan 16 – Semana Económica (Peru) – Perspectivas y optimismo – by Oswaldo Molina
Jan 16 – Salzburger Nachrichten (Austria) – Die Nachricht vom bevorstehenden Untergang der Welt ist deutlich verfrüht – by Viktor Hermann
Jan 6 – StarTribune (US) – Something’s right in the world today – by D.J. Tice
Jan 3 – Fast Company (US) – Despite What Happened In 2016, The Long-Term Trend For Humanity Is Good – by Adele Peters
Coverage in 2016
Dec 31 – Bloomberg View – Here Comes the Cleanup Crew for 2016 – by Barry Ritholtz
Dec 31 – Business Insider (UK) – 14 charts that will remind you – no matter how you felt about 2016 – that the world is getting better every day – by Chris Weller
Dec 31 – Welt (Germany) – „Uns ist nicht bewusst, wie schlimm es früher war“ – by Stefanie Bolzen
Dec 31 – The National (UAE) – How to kick off the new year in a positive frame of mind – by Jessica Hill
Dec 30 – The Washington Post (US) – Why 2016 was actually one of the best years on record – by Annie Duflo & Jeffrey Mosenkis
Dec 30 – The Washington Post (US) – The best work on political economy in 2016 – by Daniel Drezner
Dec 30 – der Freitag (Germany) – „99 Prozent können irren“ (interview with Max Roser) – by Christine Käppeler
Dec 30 – El País (Spain) – Las paradojas del progreso: datos para el optimismo – by Kiko Llaneras & Nacho Carretero
Dec 29 – NRC.nl (The Netherlands) – De wereld wordt steeds beter. Kijk maar naar de data – by Wouter van DijkeLen Maessen
Dec 29 – BDN Maine (US) – Why the world isn’t as bad as it seems
Dec 28 – The Huffington Post (Germany) – Ihr glaubt, 2016 war ein beschissenes Jahr… dann lest das hier – by Julius Zimmer
Dec 27 – Business Insider (Nordic) – 14 charts that should restore your faith in humanity – by Chris Weller
Dec 27 – Zeit Online (Germany) – Diese Grafiken zeigen, dass die Welt gar nicht so schlecht ist – Tobias Dorfer
Dec 27 – 444 (Hungary) – Lehet, hogy nem vetted észre, de 2016 egy jó év volt – by Horváth Bence
Dec 27 – Valencia Plaza (Spain) – Merry Christmas… and Happy New Year? – Regina Laguna
Dec 26 – KiwiBlog (New Zealand) – World poverty has fallen by 130,000 since yesterday! – by David Farrar
Dec 25 – NZZ.at (Austria) – Die Welt ist besser als ihr Ruf – by Lukas Sustala
Dec 24 – bento (Germany) – Nein, die Welt wird nicht immer schlimmer – by Marc Röhlig
Dec 24 – Toska.com.mk (Macedonia) – График на денот: Како се менувало светското богатство во последните 2 века?
Dec 24 – Denar (Macedonia) – График на денот: Како се менувало светското богатство во последните 2 века?
Dec 23 – Vox (US) – Proof that life is getting better for humanity, in 5 charts – by Max Roser
Dec 23 – TopKy.sk (Slovakia) – Udalosti v roku 2016 nabrali hrozivý spád: 5 grafov, ktoré ukážu, že svet sa nerúti do záhuby
Dec 23 – Investor.bg (Bulgaria) – Графика на деня: Как се е променяло световното богатство през последните 2 века? – by Viktoria Toshkova
Dec 22 – Slate (US) – Life Expectancy Is, Overall, Increasing – by Ben Hanowell
Dec 16 – Bloomberg View – Stereotypes Are Poisoning American Politics – by William R. Easterly
Dec 16 – Grist (US) – How food, forests, and people are connected, in 10 charts – by Nathanael Johnson
Dec 13 – Rand Daily Mail (South Africa) – TOM EATON: A small lifeboat bobbing brightly on a sea of heaving despair – by Tom Eaton
Dec 9 – El País (Spain) – Así se multiplicó la educación en España – by Kiko Llaneras
Dec 6 – Motherboard (US) – The United States Is Not an Apocalyptic Wasteland, Explains Steven Pinker – by Phil Torres
Dec 2 – The Guardian (UK) – It’s too late for hand-wringing – globalisation is already dead – by Bob Swarup
Dec – Spiegel Online (Germany) – Früher War Alles Schlechter: Impfungen
Nov 11 – Visual Capitalist (Canada) – Chart: The End of World Poverty is in Sight – by Jeff Desjardins
Nov 9 – Scientific American (USA) – Yes, Trump Is Scary, but Don’t Lose Faith in Progress – by John Horgan
Nov 9 – El País (Spain) – El mapa de la pobreza estadounidense y otras historias – by Gonzalo Fanjul
Nov 7 – Global Nomadic – The World is More Full of Goodness Than We Think – by Elaina Giolando
Nov 7 – World Economic Forum – The world has never been a better place. Don’t believe us? Look at this chart – by Keith Breene
Nov 5 – Renaissance for Leaders – Soft Power vs Hard Power – by Andrew John Harrison
Nov – Scientific American (USA) – Why Political Pessimism Trumps Optimism – by Michael Shermer
Nov 1 – Ricochet (US) – What Does America Owe Americans vs. Non-Americans – by James Pethokoukis
Nov 1 – Singularity University via Medium (US) – Why the World Is Better Than You Think in 10 Powerful Charts – by Peter Diamandis
Oct – Anthropocene Magazine – An Anthropocene Journey – By Andrew C. Revkin
Oct 31 – American Enterprise Institute (US) – What does America owe Americans vs. non-Americans? – by James Pethokoukis
Oct 30 – VOzes Mórmons (Brazil) – Vivemos nos Últimos Dias?
Oct 27 – The Federalist (US) – Tom Hanks Admits He Firmly Believes A Debunked Conspiracy Theory – by Robert Tracinski
Oct 26 – Foundation for Economic Education (US) – We See the Glass as Half Empty, Yet Our Cup Is Overflowing – by Marian L. Tupy
Oct 24 – Global Citizen – Ending Extreme Poverty by 2030 Looks Possible in This Nifty Chart – by Meghan Werft
Oct 18 – Exploring the effects of healthcare investment on child mortality in R – by Simon Jackson
Oct 18 – Ökonomenstimme (Germany) – Antworten an den Club of Rome – by Hans-Jörg Naumer
Oct 16 – FAZ – Viel BIP, langes Leben Grafik
Oct 14 – Reason – There’s Never Been A Better Time to Be Alive
Oct 17 – 7 datos que demuestran que nuestro mundo es cada vez menos desigual
Oct 13 – CapX – Why are we determined to deny that things are getting better?
Oct 12 – Does Accelerating Technology Have to Create Dystopia? – Interview with Robin Hanson
Oct 12 – Oxford University – Ageing Nobel Laureates or an Ageing Mankind?
Oct 11 – BoingBoing – US people pay more for health care, die sooner than people in other developed countries – by Mark Frauenfelder
Oct 11 – O’Reilly – Highlights from Next:Economy 2016 – Roser presentation
Oct 11 – Boing Boing – US people pay more for health care, die sooner than people in other developed countries
Oct 10 – Look – What Men And Women Wanted Out Of Marriage in 1939 Compared to 2016
Oct – “ourworldindata: an R data package” – by Simon Jackson (description of a software package)
Oct 6 – Scientific American – Yes, Trump Is Scary, but Don’t Lose Faith in Progress
Oct 2 – Independent (Ireland) – GDP: Fiddling with the most powerful metric in history
March 2016 – Berliner Republik (Germany) – Sozialdemokraten, verlasst das Gebäude!
September 23 – Weser Kurier (Germany) – ‘Frohe Botschaft’ – Article about Our World in Data by Martin Wein
September – Onyx Magazin (Germany) – Lichtblicke im Kampf gegen die Armut
22 September 2016 – New York Times – The Best News You Don’t Know – by Nicholas Kristof
Sept 14 – Helsingen Sanomat (Finland) – Puolittuiko maailman köyhien määrä oikeasti? Köyhyyden rajanveto on mielivaltaista
September 2016 – Resolution Foundation – Examining an Elephant – by Adam Corlett
August 15 – Het gaat ondanks alles ook gewoon heel goed met de wereld (translation of the article by Amy Robinson Sterling)
August 17 – Playground Noticias – ’15 gráficos que demuestran que el mundo no está tan jodido como parece‘ –
August 16 – John Green – Some Good News: 16 Ways 2016 Is Not a Total Dumpster Fire
August 16 – Marginal Revolution – Regulation and Distrust–The Ominous Update – by Alex Tabarrok
August 10 – Huffington Post – Donald Trump Is Communicating With The Reptile In You
August 11 – Zeit (Germany) – Die Welt ist nicht so schlecht, wie Sie glauben
August 11 – Krautreporter – Warum meine Generation besser dran ist als die meiner Eltern
August 7 – NZZ – Unsere Welt kollabiert nicht, ganz im Gegenteil – by Professor Monika Bütler
July 30 – Contrepoints – L’âge d’or du genre humain, c’est maintenant
July 29 – Heise – Themenmolekül: Wie LOLcats, nur eben Wissenschaft – von Peter Glaser
July 27 – Ifogram – Our World in Data: Visualizations with a Conscience
July 23 – Kurier (Austria) – Das Ende extremer Armut wird greifbar (with nicely embedded visualisations from Our World in Data)
July 22 – Berner Zeitung and other swiss newspapers (Switzerland) – Es hat wieder gepiepst
July 22 – La Nación (Argentina) – El que no arriesga no gana
July 20 – New Co – A Deficit of Idealism: Tim O’Reilly on the Next Economy
July 19 – Quartz (USA) – There’s good news to be found in the global economy, if you know where to look – by Matt Philips
July 19 – Seeking Alpha (USA) – Globalization And Its Discontents
July 19 – World Economic Forum – At the height of the Cold War, the US and Soviet Union worked together to eradicate smallpox – by Sean B. Carroll
July 18 – Huffington Post – Volver al 77? (Going back to 77?)
July 12, 2016 – Die Welt wird immer besser – longer portrait of Our World in Data and Max Roser in the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung by Björn Finke
July 10 – Machine Money and People Money – by Tim O’Reilly
July 10 – Global Investigative Journalism Network – Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links
July 7 – Reason (USA) – American Pessimism: Only 6 Percent Think the World Is Getting Better
July 7 – Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey) – Europe’s troubled future
July 7 – TS (Switzerland; French speaking) Des villes américaines aussi meurtrières que l’Europe médiévale
July 7 – Atlantico (France) – Mondialisation heureuse ? Comment la chute de l’extrême pauvreté masque l’accroissement des inégalités (Good globalization? How the fall of extreme poverty masks growing inequalities)
July 6 – Washington Post – Why living in some U.S. cities is literally like living in the Middle Ages
July 5 – Tech Insider – China is the only country that’s remotely optimistic about the future
July 3 – American Council on Science and Health – Only 6% of Americans Think the World is Getting Better
July 1, 2016 – OurWorldInData.org is now included in the Scout Report of the Uni Wisconsin-Madison
June 27 – Singularity Hub – Why the World Is Better Than You Think in 10 Powerful Charts
June 23 – World Economic Forum – 8 things you need to know about China’s economy
June 21 – Bloomberg View – There’s Great News on Inequality and Poverty – by Noah Smith
30 May – Noah Smith (USA) – The incredible miracle in poor country development
27 May – World Economic Forum – US and European success was built on free trade. It must be defended – by Carl Bildt (former Prime Minister of Sweden)
25 May – Intellectual Takeout (USA) – The War on Poverty is Not Going Like You Think
Series with New York University’s Development Research Institute (for example here)
24 May – Welingelichte Kringen (Netherlands) – Echt, het ging nog nooit zo goed met de mensheid
23 May – Geo Hipsters – Interview with Achim Tack & Patrick Stotz
23 May – Prisma (Switzerland) – Interview with Monika Bütler
20 May – Vox.com – 100 years of global aging – by Zack Beauchamp
11 May – Yahoo – Will Famines Become a Thing of the Past?
10 May – New York Times – Here’s Why There’s a Searing Ethiopian Drought Without an Epic Ethiopian Famine
25 April – Vox.com – We’re winning the war on malaria — and saving millions of lives in the process
25 April – Glamour (France) – Etude : les qualités préférées des femmes chez les hommes en 1939 et 2008
21 April – Salon (USA) – How bad can a Tinder date get?
20 April – Fatherly (USA) – What Guys Are Looking For In A Spouse Has Changed A Fair Bit Since 1939
19 April – Washington Post (USA) and the Independent (UK) – What men and women wanted in a spouse in 1939 — and how different it is today
19 April – World Economic Forum – Bill Gates: Global inequality is falling faster than ever
20 April – Huffington Post (Italy) – Max Roser, economista, realizza un grafico sulle diverse caratteristiche ricercate in un partner dal 1939 ad oggi
19 April – Mother Jones (USA) – In the 21st Century, We All Want Smart, Gorgeous Mates
11 April – New York Times – The Park Service Maps America’s Natural and Human-Made Soundscapes and Silences
9 April – O futuro das coisas (Brazil) – Projeções para a educação até 2050
23 March – Politifact (USA) – Did we really reduce extreme poverty by half in 30 years?
April – KD Nuggets – Our World in Data – A Fantastic Site for Data-driven Analysis
31 March – The Conversation – How data journalism can empower Africans at the polls and beyond (also at other outlets)
2016 – Book – Alberto Cairo – The Truthful Art
CNN – 15 Questions with James Beshara
15 March – Huffington Post (Germany) – ’Teil einer besseren Zukunft: Darum brauchen wir einen kämpferischen Optimismus’ (Part of a better future: This is why we need optimism)
9 March – World Economic Forum – Why you’re probably wrong about immigration
7 March – FAZ – Fazit – das Wirtschaftsboom – Sind die Reichen wirklich so reich? – Austausch zwischen Patrick Bernau und Oxfam
15 December 2015 – World Economic Forum – Why we need to reconnect with the sun
16 February – The Week – In 2050, Chinese politicians will talk about India the way Donald Trump talks about China
31 January – FAZ – Weltbevölkerung: Die Grenzen des Wachstums (world population: the limits to growth)
27 January – Forbes – Another Thing David Graeber Doesn’t Understand: Keynes And Working Hours
22 Jan – The Independent (UK) – Daily catch-up: How goes the War on Want? It is being won – By John Rentoul
21 January – Blog Stats – ’Optimism with Data’
20 Jan – So you want to Blog about Development? – by Jacob Winter
18 Jan – RPP (Peru) – Hay desigualdad en el mundo, pero cada año baja la pobreza absoluta
18 Jan – Financial Times (UK) – Three reasons to question Oxfam’s inequality figures – by Chris Giles
18 Jan – Prime Economics (UK) – Financialised globalisation enhances, not reduces, global inequality – by Jeremy Smith
14 Jan – Publik-Forum (Germany) – Ohne Hoffnung keine Zukunft – by Bettina Röder, Barbara Tambour
13 January – TIME (USA) – Obama Puts Terrorism in Perspective in State of the Union
5 Jan – SFGate (USA) – ’How the Age We Marry Has Changed Over Time‘
5 Jan – DailyTekk (USA) – The 100 best, most-interesting websites of 2016
6 January – World Economic Forum – Are levels of global violence falling?
6 Jan – YouGove (Germany) – Chinesen glauben am ehesten, dass die Welt besser wird
6 Jan – Spectator (Great Britain) – Around the world, poverty is collapsing. Why is that so hard to believe? – by Fraser Nelson
4 Jan – World Economic Forum – Poverty: the past, present and future – by Martin Ravallion
3 Jan – Wortgebrauch (Germany) – Optimismus benötigt Verstand und Mut (‘Optimism requires reason and courage’)
2 Jan – Il Foglio (Italy) – Toh! Non siamo mai stati così “ricchi” (“We have never been so rich”) –
1 Jan – Spiegel (Germany) – Frohe Botschaft – long portrait of Max Roser and Our World in Data
1 Jan – Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany) – Die Zukunft ist rosig – Alles wird gut! – Interview with Max Roser and article on Our World in Data
Coverage in 2015
29 Dec – Grist (USA) – Here’s the good news about Earth from this year – An article on the action against climate change by Katie Herzog
23 Dec – Washington Post – 11 ways that 2015 made history
31 Dec – Up (Switzerland) – 2016 wird das beste Jahr der Menschheitsgeschichte and here.
30 Dec – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German) – Book Review of “Joseph Stiglitz: „Reich und Arm“” – Patrick Bernau
Dec – Die Denker (German) – Medien fördern negatives Weltbild
2 Jan – Notes On Liberty (USA) – “On celebrating the new year with a thought experiment”
Jan – Edge Question of the Year 2016 – What do you consider the most interesting recent [scientific] news? what makes it important? by S Pinker – Steven Pinker answers Quantified Human Progress and talks about Our World in Data
28 December – South China Morning Post (China) – Statistics show us that things are not as bad as they seem
23 December – Washington Post (USA) – 11 astounding things that happened in 2015
21 Dec Quartz (USA) – Quartz’s Chart of the Year™ for 2015 – by Matt Philipp (the chart on the decline of extreme poverty over the last 200 years was chosen as the Chart of the Year)
18 Dec – The Atlantic – 2015: The Best Year in History for the Average Human Being – by Charles Kenny
16 December – Vox (USA) – Everyone is wildly overestimating how many immigrants there are – by Zack Beaucham
14 December – Hamburger Abendblatt (Germany) – Die Welt ist besser, als wir denken – by Thomas Frankenfeld
10 December – Huffington Post (USA) – “7 Maps That Explain the Middle East”
7 December – Mind Updates (Brazil) – Estamos vivendo em um mundo cada vez pior?
7 December – The Conversation – After a 400-year population boom, we need to reconnect with the sun
7 December – Les Echos (France) – Terrorisme : attention à ne pas se tromper d’analyse !
7 December – Mercator Net – ‘Modern technology: triumph or tragedy?’
Dezember – Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland) – Es wird besser – Portrait of Our World in Data & Interview of Max Roser by Peter Glaser
November 30 – TechInsider – This chart shows what people want in a spouse now compared to 70 years ago – and the differences are striking
December 1 – New York Times – Imagining a World Without Growth – by Eduardo Porter
27 November – Women’s UN Reporting Network – Finding True Power for Women & Girls: UN Sustainable Development Goals’ Most Challenging Task
26 November – Discover magazine – What I’m Thankful For: The Science and Technology Edition – by Corey S. Powell
23 November – New Yorker (USA) – Terrorism in the Age of Twitter – by John Cassidy
17 November – Cerrado Editora (Brazil) – Dados que nos ajudam a entender o mundo
16 November – Zurich (Insurance company) – The way we work
15 November – The Guardian (UK) – The scientists with reasons to be cheerful – long portrait of Ola & Hans Rosling, Ruth deFries and Our World in Data by Ed Cumming
3 November – Inequality in Education: ‘Inequality over the last century…’
November 1 – Contrepoints (France) – Calamité : il y a de plus en plus de riches ! (2)
October 28, 2015 – The Atlantic – City Lab (USA) – Stop Complaining About Your ‘Long’ Work Week, in 2 Charts – by Eric Jaffe
October 30 – Washington Post (USA) – Why many families in China won’t want more than one kid even if they can have them
October 30 – Washington Post (USA) – One chart why China’s letting families have more kids
October 27 – Bloomberg (USA) – Lowering World Poverty Depends on India – by Noah Smith
October 24 – Quartz (USA) – ”When my parents were born, 7 in 10 people lived in extreme poverty. Today it’s 1 in 10″
October 21 – Business Insider (Australia) – Chart of the Day: The staggering population growth over the last 200 years
October 21 – (Greece) – Our World in Data: Η φτώχεια τα τελευταία 1000 χρόνια – Κάτι αλλάζει προς το καλύτερο διεθνώς (‘Our World in Data: Poverty in the last 1000 years – Something is changing for the better internationally’)
October 20 – City A.M. (Australia) – 5 charts showing why the world is a better place than you think
October 20 – American Enterprise Institute – Today is World Statistics Day 2015
October 16 – BGR – The most disruptive technology of the last century isn’t the smartphone – by Yoni Heisler
October 16 – Forbes (USA) – Keynes’ 15 Hour Work Week Is Here Right Now
October 15 – Wired magazine (UK) – Good data will make you an economic optimist
October 14 – Washington Post (USA) – The most disruptive technology of the last century is in your house
October 12 – Wall Street Journal – Economists React: Angus Deaton Nobel Prize a ‘Brilliant Selection’
October 10 – Valor o Crecimiento – ‘La pobreza extrema sigue cayendo y podría ser historia en 2030’
October 7 – WIRED – WIRED2015: Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland on taking action with big data
October 6 – Libra Mercado (Spain) – La pobreza extrema sigue cayendo y podría ser historia en 2030 (‘Extreme poverty continues to fall and could be history in 2030’)
September – SAS Inflight magazine – Getting Better
September 28 – Foreign Policy – The SDGs Should Stand for Senseless, Dreamy, Garbled – By Bill Easterly
September 26 – John Green – YouTube – Is Poverty Necessary? Looking back at the Millennium Development Goal
September 24 – Washington Post (USA) – 30 charts and maps that explain China today – by Ana Swanson
September 24 – Council for European Studies – Book review “Inequality: What Can Be Done?” by Stefan Thewissen
September 24 – Washington Post – 30 charts and maps that explain China today
September 18 – Bloomberg (USA) – Africa Starts to Emerge – by Noah Smith
September 16 – INET (USA) – Max Roser collaborates with Hans Rosling on BBC Documentary – by Eric Beinhocker
September 9 – CapX – Why child mortality is falling – by Zac Tate
September 8 – Bloomberg – Get Smarter Instantly by Following These Seven People on Twitter – by Tom Keene
September 7, 2015 – Xataka (Spain) – ’17 gráficos para enseñar a quien todavía no crea que el mundo va cada vez mejor’ (17 graphics to teach those who do not yet believe that the world is getting better)
September 7 – Austrian Economics Center (Austria) – Inequality, Poverty, “The Free Market” And Capitalism: The Story Of A Wonderful Success – By Giovanni Caccavello for the Austrian Economics Center
September 1 – Vice (Italy) – Stiamo vivendo il periodo più pacifico della storia degli esseri umani – Interview with Max Roser and coverage of the long-term picture of violence on Our World in Data by Federico Nejrotti
August 23 – The Guardian (UK) – Steven Pinker’s cultural highlights
August 19 – Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) – ‘So schön wie früher wird’s nicht mehr – findet euch damit ab’ – by Armin Wolf
August 17 – Exame (Brazil) – Um gráfico para ficar otimista com a queda da pobreza global (A graph that makes you optimistic about the decline of global poverty’)
August 10 – Mediapool (Bulgaria) – Светът по-много критерии е в доста по-добро състояние, отколкото е бил преди (‘In many aspects the world is much better than before’)August 16 – Inside HigherEd – Pushing Back on the Collapse Meme
August 13 – Vox (USA) – This chart shows one of humanity’s greatest modern accomplishments, by Dylan Matthews
August 10 – Thomson Reuters (United Kingdom) – Think the world’s getting worse? Think again, says economist
Also on Yahoo News, Japan Today, Standard, Chaen, Bharat Press, Money web, Fin 24, First Post and others.
August 10 – Vesti (Bulgaria) – Смятате, че светът е по-ужасен от всякога? Помислете пак (‘You think the world is more terrible than ever? Think again’)
August 7 – Deutschland Radio (Germany) – Heute ist alles besser als früher
August 5 – Huffington Post (Germany) – Oxford-Ökonom Max Roser: Die Welt wird ständig besser
Aug 4 – Süddeutsche Zeitung (German) – “Die Menschheit war früher viel gewalttätiger.” (Humanity was more violent in the past)
August 2 – Gulf Business (Gulf Region) – Longevity, the retirement crisis and how to be prepared
July 22 – American Enterprise Institute (USA) – Here’s what happens when humans are free to imagine, create, innovate, profit, and flourish
July 13 – Vox (USA) – The world is getting better all the time, in 11 maps and charts by Zack Beauchamp
8th July – Data Stories (Podcast on data visualisation) – #57: Visualizing Human Development w/ Max Roser
July 7 – Vox (USA) – Greece’s political crisis is partly the eurozone’s fault – by Ezra Klein
July 6 – Vox (USA) – Greece’s debt crisis explained in charts and maps by Ezra Klein
July 3 – Huffington Post (France) – Grèce: ces économistes dénoncent les politiques d’austérité qui ont viré cauchemar – Greece: these economists denounce the austerity policies that have turned into a nightmare”
July 1 2015 – Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) – Kurven des Kapitalismus
June 30 – Vox (USA) – In defense of the Eurozone – by Zack Beauchamp
June 25 – Magnet (Spain) – Este gráfico cuenta cuánta gente ha muerto en guerras desde 1400 (‘This graphic shows how many people have died in wars since 1400’)
June 24 – io9 (USA) – This Chart Shows How Many People Have Died From Conflicts Since 1400
June 24 – Vox (USA) – 600 years of war and peace, in one amazing chart by Zack Beauchamp
June 23 – World Economic Forum (Switzerland) – War is killing fewer people than ever before
June 23 – Business Insider (India and UK) – This insane chart shows how violence has spiked — and declined — since 1400
June 12 – Nuclear Secrecy – What remains of the Manhattan Project
June 14 – Contrepoints (France) – Désolé, mais ça va de mieux en mieux
June 8 – Strategy and Business (USA) – The Data-Driven Optimist – Longer portrait of Our World in Data and Max Roser
June 8 – Sputniks (Portugal) – Este vídeo irá mostrar por que tudo que você pensa sobre o capitalismo está errado (‘This video will show why everything you think about capitalism is wrong’)
May 31 – Bild am Sonntag (‘Germany’) – Von wegen früher war alles besser… (Interview passages with Max Roser on the content of Our World in Data. In print edition of the newspaper.)
May 28 – Polimaty (Poland) – 200 lat temu brytyjski „senior” był… 40-latkiem! Jak zmienia się przewidywana długości życia?
May 21 – Chicago Tribune (USA) – GOP candidates want you to be terrified – By Rex W. Huppke (behind pay wall)
May 19 – Rivista Studio (Italy) – Com’è cambiata l’Africa (in meglio) in tre grafici (‘How Africa has changed (for the better) in three graphs’)
May 17 – Zero Hedge (USA) – Peak Population Growth?
May 15 – Cato Unbound (USA) – Why Libertarians Should Welcome ISDS
May 9 – Bill Gates shares data from the Malaria data entry on his official Facebook page. Previously he used material from the life expectancy chart.
May 8 – RTS (Switzerland) – La pauvreté mondiale atteindrait son niveau le plus bas de l’Histoire (‘Global inequality reaches the lowest level in history’)
May 6 – News Monkey (Belgium) – Yep, we leven allemaal steeds langer: deze kaartjes tonen hoe snel dat gaat (‘Yes, we all live increasingly longer: these cards show how fast it goes’)
May – Folha de Sao Paulo (Brasil) – Reforma política do século 21 (‘’Political reform in the 21st century”)
April 28 – Roger Pielke Jr.’s Blog – Earthquakes: Death Rates and Frequency of Big Events
April 21 – Forbes (USA) – Five People To Follow On Twitter For Good Business Content
April 20 – The Billfold (USA) – Life, And Doing Money, In The New Middle Age
April 16 – Slate (France) – La pauvreté n’a jamais été à un niveau aussi bas dans l’histoire (‘Poverty was never lower in history’) – by Eric Leser
April 15 – Express (Belgium) Indrukwekkende grafiek toont hoe het kapitalisme de armoede in de wereld op een historisch laag niveau bracht (‘Impressive graph shows how capitalism brought the poverty in the world at a historically low level’)
April 14 – Linke Zeitung and also in Griechenland Blog (Germany) – So wurden in Griechenland die Armen ärmer (‘This is how the poor in Greece got poorer’)
April 13 – Oxford University (UK) – Interview with Max Roser
April 10 – The Washington Post (USA) – Greece’s poor are back to where they were in 1980 – By Matt O’Brien
April 9 – New York Times (USA) – Turning to Big, Big Data to See What Ails the World – By Tina Rosenberg
April 9 – Institute for New Economic Thinking (USA/UK) – Inequality or Living Standards: Which Matters More? By Max Roser, Brian Nolan, and Stefan Thewissen
April 5 – Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden) – Tro inte allt ni hör – fattigdomen minskar (‘Do not believe everything you hear – there is less poverty’)
April 1 – Las Vegas Review Journal (USA) – Editorial: Capitalism crushes poverty
March 30 – Breitbart (USA) – Economist Explains Why Poverty Is ‘Falling Faster Than Ever’ as Inequality Skyrockets
March 30 – Washington Examiner (USA) – Amazing chart shows thanks to capitalism, global poverty is at its lowest rate in history
March 29 – Capital of Statistics (China) – Let us talk about statistics
March 25 – Vox (USA) – The lives vaccines have saved in the US, in one chart
March 20 – The Guardian (UK) – Guess what? More people are living in peace now. Just look at the numbers – by Steven Pinker
March 13 – Huffington Post (USA) – Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Talk About Finance
March 12 – Vox.com (USA) – ‘The government is the only reason the US has more inequality than Sweden’ – By Dylan Matthews
March 10 – Slate Magazine (USA) – ‘Look at All These Countries That Are Better at Fighting Inequality Than the United States’
March 2 – Business Insider (USA) – Natural disasters used to be so much worse
February 26 – Quartz (USA) – Economics papers have been getting a whole lot math-ier
Feb 10 – Vox.com (USA) – ‘How Obama’s optimism about the world explains his foreign policy’
Jan 20 – Berlingske (Denmark) – Naturkatastrofer dræber stadig færre (‘Natural disasters kill fewer and fewer’)– Article by Bjorn Lomborg
Jan 20 – Journal Montreal (Canada) – Au niveau planétaire, les inégalités baissent! (‘Globally, the inequalities fall!’) – by Vincent Geloso
Jan 19 – Europa Press (Spain) – ‘Así ha mejorado el acceso a la educación en los últimos 200 años en todo el mundo’ (‘This is how much access to education has globally improved over the last 200 years’)
Jan 19 – Financial Times (UK) – Give the middle classes their fair share of the pie – by Izabella Kaminska
Jan 14 – MSN (USA) – How the Muslim world is being left behind
Jan 12 – Macro Business (Australia) – Chart of the Day – by Chris Becker
Jan 8 – TIME (USA) – The 1919 Theory That Explains Why Police Officers Need Their Guns – By Michael Shermer
Coverage in 2014
Jan 1 – La Presse (Canada) – ‘Le Monde Va-t-il Mieux Que Vous Ne Le Croyez ?’ – Interview about the project with Nicolas Bérubé
Dec 29 – Vox.com (USA) – ’26 charts and maps that show the world is getting much, much better’ – By Dylan Matthews
Dec 27 – Business Insider (USA) – ‘Over The Past 150 Years, There Has Been A Profound Shift In What Humans Do With Their Time‘ – By Henry Blodget
Dec 14 – Business Insider (USA) – ‘Yes, We Work Hard These Days, But We Work A Lot Less Than We Used To…‘ – By Henry Blodget
Dec 14 – Vox.com (USA) – ‘The world’s victory over extreme poverty, in one chart‘ – By Zack Beauchamp
Nov 26 – Spatial Worlds (USA) Getting better all the time
Nov 25 – TIME Magazine (USA) – ‘The Reason Every One of Us Should Be Thankful’ – By Michael Shermer
Nov 24 – Vox.com (USA) – ‘26 charts and maps to be thankful for‘ – by Dylan Matthews
Nov 14 – ShareAmerica.gov (USA) – ‘Oxford economist crunches numbers, concludes the world is getting better’ – Short coverage
Nov 12 – L’actualité (Canada) – ‘Nous sommes moins violents, plus tolérants, parfois désespérants‘ (”) – Longer coverage by Vincent Destouches
Nov 10 – Vox.com (USA) – ‘How the fall of the Berlin Wall changed the world, in one chart’ – Short coverage
Nov 10 – Contrepoints (France) – ‘La moitié de l’humanité vit en démocratie’ (‘Half of humanity lives in Democacies’) – Short coverage
Nov 9 – Rue 89 (France) – ‘Démocratie, anocracie, autocratie : l’évolution politique du monde en un siècle’ – Longer coverage by Pierre Haski
Nov 8 – Blic (Serbia) – ‘Ovi grafikoni ruše sve što mislite da znate o surovom svetu u kom živimo’ (These graphs crush everything you think you know about the cruel world we live in) – Longer coverage by Č. Vučinić
Nov 8 – Geenstijl (Netherlands) – ‘Dit is het beste tijdperk ooit’ (‘This is the best time ever’) – Short coverage
Nov 7 – Index.hr (Croatia) – ‘Mislite da nam nikad nije bilo gore? Varate se’ (You think it was never worse? You are wrong’) – Longer coverage
Nov 6 – Business Insider (USA) – ’25 Ways The World Is Becoming Much Better‘ – Longer coverage by Natasha Bertrand
Nov 6 – Mundo Tecno (Argentina) – ‘Prótesis biónicas – Esperanza de futuro‘ (‘Bionic prostheses – Hope for the future’) – Use (& spanish translation) of an Our World in Data graph by Alicia Bañuelos
Nov 5 – Bloomberg (USA) – ‘A Little Perspective: Meanwhile, the World Is Becoming a Better Place’ – Longer coverage by Emily Greenhouse
Nov 5 – Mic.com (USA) – ‘Good News: The World Is More Democratic Than Ever‘. – Longer coverage by Coleen Jose.
Nov 5 – Chabad.org (Israel) – ‘What Makes You Think the World Is Getting Better?‘ – Long text referring to Our World in Data and embedding some data visualisations by Tzvi Freeman
Nov 2 – The Journal (Ireland) – ‘Some good news for a Sunday morning: The world is becoming a better place’
Nov 1 – NextBillion.net (USA) – covered in the ‘Weekly Roundup’. – Short coverage
- NextBillion is a website that is important to the community of social entrepreneurs.
Oct 30 – Scientias.nl (Netherlands) – ‘De wereld vergaat niet en deze statistieken bewijzen het‘ (The world is not coming to an end and these statistics prove it). – – Detailed coverage (title page) by Tim Kraaijvanger
- Scientias is the biggest popular science website in the Netherlands (more than 350.000 visitors per month).
Oct 30 – Jutarnji (Croatia) – ‘Nova Studija S Oxforda ‘Zbog ebole i terorizma čini nam se da je svijet užasan, ali istina je suprotna‘ (‘A new publication from Oxford on the development of the world – we never had it so good’). – Detailed coverage (title page) by Tanja Rudež
- Jutarnji (‘The Morning Paper’) is a Croatian daily newspaper that is among the most read in the country. The article was the title story on October 30th (morning).
Oct 30 – Rusplt (Russia) – ‘Жить стало лучше‘ (‘Life is better’). – Detailed coverage by Михаил Карпов
Oct 30 – PlanetSiol (Slovenia) – Kljub terorizmu, eboli in drugim tegobam je svet boljši, kot je bil nekoč (‘Despite terrorism, Ebola and other problems the world is better than it once was’) – Detailed coverage
Oct 30 – Kurir-info (Serbia) – ‘Mi samo mislimo da je svet užasan, u stvari nam je sve bolje!‘ (‘We think that the world is horrible, in fact we are all better!’) – Detailed coverage
Oct 30 – Bayerischer Rundfunk (Germany) – ‘Weniger Krieg und Armut – Von wegen alles wird immer schlechter‘ (‘Fewer wars and less poverty – so much for everything getting worse’) – Short coverage by Nina Heinisch
Oct 29 – SPLOID Gizmodo (USA) – ‘The world is now safer and better than ever and here’s the evidence‘ – Short coverage by Jesus Diaz
- And Gizmodo Australia here.
Oct 28 – Business Insider (USA) – ‘OK, Haters, It’s Time To Admit It: The World Is Becoming A Better Place‘ – Longer coverage, title coverage by Henry Blodget
- Business Insider is a leading business and technology news website in the US. The article was the title story on Oct 28 (evening).
Oct 27 – Gizmodo Espanol (Spain) – ‘Aunque no lo parezca, el mundo es ahora más seguro que nunca‘ (‘Believe it or not, the world is now safer than ever’) – Short coverage by Saavedra Yare
- Gizmodo Español is the Spanish speaking version of the influential tech and design blog Gizmodo. Gizmodo Esanñol alone has 230.000 Twitter followers.
Oct 27 – INET Oxford (UK) – ‘OurWorldInData.org – a new web publication shows how the world is changing‘ – Longer coverage by Max Roser on his publication
Oct 27 – Marisol Collazos Soto (Spain) – ‘El mundo es ahora más seguro que nunca’ (‘The world is now safer than ever’)
Oct 24 – Andrew Hidas Blog (USA) – ‘These are the best of times’ – Short coverage
October 21 – CapX by The Centre for Policy Studies (UK) – ‘The world is becoming a better place’– Short coverage
Oct 20 – kocka.sda.sk (Slovakia) – ‘Ako rastie vzdelanosť vo svete’ (‘How to extend education around the world’) – Short coverage
Oct 20 – Oxford Martin School blog (UK) – ‘It’s a cold, hard fact: our world is becoming a better place’ – Longer coverage by Max Roser
Oct 6 – Weather and Climate @ Reading University (UK) – ‘Healthy eating, healthy planet?‘ – Short coverage by Joy Singarayer
September – Econogist.org (USA) – ‘Deciphering Data: Earthquakes, Music, Love, and Violence‘ – Short coverage by Isabel Munson
September 12 – Humanosphere.org (USA) – ‘Fewer children die each year’ – Short coverage by Tom Murphy
August 28 – SupplyChainBeyond – ‘6 Maps That Explain Global Supply Chains’ – Short coverage by Bruce Jacquemard
August 26 – Vox.com (USA) – ‘38 maps that explain the global economy‘ – Short coverage by Matthew Yglesias
August 16 – Health, Education, Social Protection News & Notes – ‘Our World in Data‘ – Short coverage
- This is the bi-weekly newsletter supported by GIZ the German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation owned by the German Federal Government.
August 16 – Geographical Imaginations (USA) – ‘Peace in our time‘ – Short text
August 15 – Matt Ridley Blog (UK) – ‘Reasons to be cheerful, despite the 4 horses of the apocalypse‘ – Longer coverage
- This article was also published in The Times here.
August 15 – Vox.com (USA) – ‘The world economy since 1 AD, in one chart’ – Detailed coverage by Dylan Matthews
- This article was widely shared (>2,000 times) and also cross-published at Yahoo.com here.
August 15 – DineroEnImagen (Mexico) – ‘Dos gráficos muestran la riqueza mundial de los últimos 2000 años’ (‘Two graphs show the global prosperity of the last 2000 years’) – Short coverage
August 2 – The Washington Post (USA) uses Our World in Data as a source for ‘The State of Africa‘
July 31 – The Aspen Institute (USA) – The Our World in Data presentation at AfricaInData.org is one of the ‘Five Best Ideas of the Day‘.
July 30 – Marginal Revolution (USA) – Link to Africa in Data
July 23 – Kushima (Japan) – Our World in Data – Short coverage
July 8 – Treehugger (USA) – ‘Deaths from malaria since 2010 in one graph (and a 1870 map showing U.S. deaths)‘ – Longer coverage by Michael Graham Richard
July 8 – Marginal Revolution (USA) – Link to OurWorldInData.org
July 6 – Xataka (Spain) – ‘Nuestro mundo en datos: visualizando cómo hemos cambiado los últimos siglos’ (‘Our world in data: visualizing how we have changed over the last centuries”) – Longer coverage
Reports, Books, and Academia
2019 Jan 7 – cited in Nature – High-performance medicine: the convergence of human and artificial intelligence – Eric J. Topol
2018 Dec 3 – cited in Journal of Geriatric Oncology – Global geriatric oncology: One size does not fit all – Enrique Soto-Perez-de-Celis
2018 Oct 29 – cited in Peterson Institute for International Economics – What is Globalization?
2018 Oct 4 – cited in Nature Plants – The Green Revolution did not increase poverty and hunger for millions by Devang Mehta
2018 Oct 1 – cited in The Lancet Planetary Health Climate change, famine, and low-income communities challenge Sustainable Development Goals – by Muniyandi Balasubramanian
2018 Oct 1 – cited in 80,000 hours career guide on Academic Research by Jess Whittlestone
2018 Sep 27 – cited in the book Social Progress in Britain – by Anthony F. Heath
2018 Sep 18 – cited in Nature Briefing by Flora Graham Daily Briefing: Why lab students keep getting the same remarkably wrong answer
2018 Jun – cited in Nicholas Stern’s Fulbright Legacy Lecture ‘The best of centuries or the worst of centuries: Leadership, governance and cohesion in an interdependent world.
2018 Jun 13 – cited in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Hunger and malnutrition in the 21st century – by Patrick Webb, Gunhild Anker Stordalen, Sudhvir Sing, Ramani Wijesinha-Bettoni, Prakash Shetty, and Anna Lartey
2018 Jun 11 – cited in the RAPID project Why industrialisation – by Stefan Dercon and Nicolas Lippolis
2018 Feb 16 – cited in the Nature book review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment The limitations of Steven Pinker’s optimism – by Ian Goldin
2018 Feb 12 – cited in the book The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics by Eugene Heath, Byron Kaldis, Alexei Marcoux
2018 Feb 1 – The Quarterly Journal of Economics – The Global Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History, and the Role of Trade by J Vernon Henderson, Tim Squires, Adam Storeygard, and David Weil
2018 Feb – Perspectives on Terrorism – Recent Online Resources for the Analysis of Terrorism and Related Subjects – Berto Jongman
2018 Jan 23 – cited in the book Journal of Moral Theology by Mary Doyle Roche
2017 Nov 14 – cited in the book An Introduction to Global Health Delivery by Joia S. Mukherjee
2017 Oct 10 – cited in the book “What’s The Future and Why It’s Up To Us” by Tim O’Reilly
2017 Sept 11 – The Quarterly Journal of Economics – The Global Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History, and the Role of Trade – by Henderson et al.
2017 Aug 3 – cited in the book Reviews of National Policies for Education Education in Costa Rica by the OECD
2017 – Ernst & Young – Report: Tax insights for business leaders No. 19
2017 Sept – cited in the book “The Next Generation: Preparing Today’s Kids For an Extraordinary Future” by Tony Ryan
2017 Aug – cited in the book “Large Risks with Low Probabilities: Perceptions and willingness to take preventive measures against flooding” edited by Tadeusz Tyszka and Piotr Zielonka
2017 Aug – cited in the book “Grundforløbet i engelsk” by Mette Grønvold, Hanne Ohland-Andersen
2017 Jun – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America – Future of fundamental discovery in US biomedical research – by Michael Levitt & Jonathan M. Levitt
2017 Jun – Journal of the American College of Cardiology – Changing Demographics: A New Approach to Global Health Care Due to the Aging Population – by Valentin Fuster
2017 – The Marshall Plan and the Shaping of American Strategy (Brookings Institution Press)
2017 May – Anuario Internacional CIDOB – Buenas Noticias: En el Mundo Hay Menos Pobreza Que Munca (III) – by Esteban Ortiz-Ospina
2017 Apr 21 – Science – Ecosystem management as a wicked problem – Ruth DeFries & Harini Nagendra
2017 Apr – Saylor Academy – Max Roser and Esteban Ortiz Ospina’s “Literacy”
2017 – RAND Corporation – Strategic Choices For a Turbulent World – Hoehn, Solomon, Efron et al
2017 – ZukunftsInstitut (Germany) – Zukunftsreport 2017 – by Matthias Horx
2017 Jan 11 – International Journal of Forecasting – Economic forecasting in theory and practice: An interview with David F. Hendry – by Neil Ericsson
2017 Jan 11 – World Economic Forum – The Global Risks Report 2017, 12th Edition
2017 Jan – National Intelligence Council (US) – Global Trends Report: Trends Transforming the Global Landscape
2016 Dec 20 – cited in the Nature article Anthropogenic- and natural sources of dust in peatland during the Anthropocene by Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł et al.
2016 – cited in the book “The Truthful Art book” by Alberto Cairo
2016 – cited in the book Society and the Environment by Michael Carolan
Radio and Podcast
2019 Feb 4 – BBC (Good Morning Wales) – Which Countries Eat the Most Meat? (1:54:00)
2019 Jan 14 – Breakthrough Dialogues – Zooming Out: Big Picture Data with Hannah Ritchie – by Alex Trembath
2018 Apr 5 – NPR Planet Money – Morbidity, Peak Child and Collective Pessimism – by Stacey Vanek Smith and Cardiff Garcia
2017 Dec 29 – NPR Planet Money – The 50-Year Newspaper – by Stacey Vanek Smith and Cardiff Garcia
2016 Aug 02 – cited in the book “What’s Really Happening to Our Planet” by Tony Juniper
2017 Apr 12 – Freakonomics Radio – Earth 2.0: What Would Our Economy Look Like? – Stephen J. Dubner
2016 – United Nations UNCTAD – Development and Globalization: Facts and Figures 2016
2016 Dec 30 – Radio SRF (Switzerland) – Vieles wird besser (interview with Max Roser) – by Thomas Häusler
2016 Jun 17 – cited in PNAS Early-life disease exposure and associations with adult survival, cause of death, and reproductive success in preindustrial humans – Adam D. Hayward, Francesca L. Rigby and Virpi Lummaa
2016 – Handbook on Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace (Eds. 2016. Springer) – written by Brauch, H. G., Spring, Ú. O., Grin, J., & Scheffran, J.
2015 Nov 14 – The Lancet Commissions – Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health
2015 July 8 – Data Stories (Podcast on data visualisation) – #57: Visualizing Human Development w/ Max Roser
2014 October 22 – Radio interview with Max Roser covering Our World in Data with morning show ‘The Takeaway’ on WNYC (public radio in New York). The ‘program reaches nearly 2 million listeners across 230 stations nationwide’.
- Here is the audio file of the interview and their article about Our World in Data.
- Here is the coverage by Public Radio International which was likewise widely shared in social media.
- And here is the coverage by Oxford’s SPI department.
2010 Sep – cited in book 1876-1878 severe drought in North China: Facts, impacts and climatic background in Chinese Science Bulletin by ZhiXin Has, JingYun Zheng, GuoFeng Wu, XueZhen Zhang, and QhanSheng Ge
TV and Video
2019 Jan 16 – CNN en Español – El proyecto digital “Nuestro Mundo en Datos” trae una nueva perspectiva sobre los grandes cambios globales para la humanidad (“The digital project Our World in Data brings a new perspective on the great global changes for humanity”)
2018 Dec 8 (undated, hence the date of discovery) – Tutor 2 U – Absolute and Relative Poverty – Geoff Riley
2018 Sep 6th – BEME News – Ignore the headlines – the world is getting better
2018 Jul 10th – Vlogbrothers (Youtube) – The General Crisis – by John Green
2018 May 15 – Vlogbrothers (Youtube) – Seven Maps to Better Understand The World – by John Green
2017 Dec 12 – Vlogbrothers (Youtube) – 2017 is the Best? – by John Green
2017 Nov 23 – VOX on Youtube – 9 charts to be thankful for: humanity is getting better
2017 Oct 02 – Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee on «Using Testing to Combat Poverty» (SRF Sternstunde Philosophie) (around minute 32.30)
2017 May 03 – Früher war alles … schlechter! | Harald Lesch
2017 Feb 14 – IFLScience – Video on humanity’s progress over time and current state
2017 Feb 14 – vlogbrothers – Human Life Is Getting Better. Faster Than Ever Before.
2017 Feb 6 — TEDx Talks — With data, the future is different — by Wali Zahid
2015 Sept 23 – BBC (UK) – Material from Our World in Data was used for “Don’t Panic, How to End Poverty” – a one-hour documentary film with Hans Rosling and produced by Wingspan Productions for This World on BBC2. All sources and material used in the documentary are listed here. The film is available here.
Other projects based on Our World in Data’s work
2017 Jan 18 – Bl.ocks – War Deaths in the World Each Year – by David Curran
2017 Jan 17 – Bl.ocks – World Births per Woman Test – by David Curran
Teaching
Many teachers, lecturers, and professors use Our World in Data material in their teaching. The list of institutions where our work is being used for teaching is long and varied. The spectrum spans primary and secondary schools through to higher education institutions across the world, including the University of Oxford, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, The University of Cambridge, the University of California Berkeley, and many more institutions in Europe, Oceania, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
One of the most inspiring and innovative teachers we heard from was Matthew Cone, a high-school teacher at Carrboro High School in North Carolina. He wrote a post on our site about how he uses our work in his teaching.
As a response to this use of our work we built the Our World in Data-Teaching Hub.
We conducted a public survey to understand how people use our work in teaching. Below is a chart summarizing what we learned from this exercise covering nearly 100 educators from around the world.1
Three findings from our survey stood out to us:
- Teachers and professors use our work in many different ways. Taking charts for in-class presentations is a very common use of our work, but many teachers also use our work to enhance their reading list, set homework exercises or to prepare classes.
- Our work is used by students with a wide range of background knowledge. We knew that our work is used in postgraduate teaching, but were indeed positively surprised to see that primary and secondary-school teachers use our work with their students as well.
- Teachers often rely on material across multiple topics. Many teachers combine material from poverty, inequality, demography, health, education, or the environment.
If you know of people using Our World in Data not listed here, please let us know and we will add it to this page!