We’ve improved how search works on Our World in Data

When you include country names in a query, search now returns charts for those countries directly

Here's a short blog post explaining what we did: ourworldindata.org/weve-improved-…

How many electric cars are on the roads around the world?

Around 40 million (including plug-in hybrid). This is the estimate from the International Energy Agency.

You can explore the data and charts here: ourworldindata.org/electric-car-s…

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We are looking for a writer to join our team: ourworldindata.org/writer-q2-2024

Help us turn evidence and data into compelling narratives built around trusted data

A great opportunity to reach a wide, influential audience!

Tendencia de tasa de homicidios en Colombia según datos de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas contra la Droga y el Delito

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Our World in Data is looking for a writer who can write global issues for a wide audience. You could focus on poverty, inequality, health, demography, or any of the many other topics we cover (or don't yet)! (And the team is awesome.)
ourworldindata.org/writer-q2-2024

National poverty lines differ widely between countries

Today's data insight is by Esteban Ortiz-Ospina.

You can find all of our Data Insights on their dedicated feed: ourworldindata.org/data-insights

One of my main motivations for founding Our World in Data was to overcome the mad reality in academia that much of the most important research and data is locked away behind paywalls.

I wanted research and data to be a public good, accessible to *everyone*.

If you find our work…

It’s tempting to believe we can simply rely on personal experience to develop our understanding of the world.

But that’s a mistake.

To see what the world is like we need to rely on other means: carefully-collected global statistics: ourworldindata.org/limits-persona…

If you want to follow our new Data Insights more systematically, they now have their own RSS feed: ourworldindata.org/atom-data-insi…

The majority of people in every country support action on climate.

But most of us systematically underestimate how widespread this support is.

🔗 ourworldindata.org/climate-change…

Explore our new article to learn more about why this “perception gap” exists and why it’s a problem

How common is war and peace between and within countries? How has this changed?

Our new topic page on war and peace @OurWorldinData visualizes major data sources and summarizes both key insights and the data.

ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace

A thread on what the page has in store:

Earlier this month, we launched Data Insights, a new bite-sized format in which we focus on one of our 4,000+ charts to highlight one important detail about how the world is changing: ourworldindata.org/data-insights

Here’s a selection of the insights we’ve published so far… 🧵

At OWID we are now regularly publishing these bite-sized takeaways from our data in a new Data Insights feed!

You find it here: ourworldindata.org/data-insights

It's early days for this project, so all feedback welcome

Pacemakers are crucial to people with heart rhythm disorders, but their adoption varies widely
ourworldindata.org/data-insights/…

From the rise of electric cars to the fight against polio, Our World in Data has a brand new homepage. Their mission: provide easily accessible data & analysis to help make progress against the world's largest problems. Invaluable for policy makers, students, faculty
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