Max Roser

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Data to understand global problems and research to make progress against them.

— Founder of Our World in Data
— Professor at the University of Oxford

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Very interesting new study adds evidence that the bubonic plague bacteria was common in Neolithic Europe, and perhaps that it could have been responsible for the Neolithic decline. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers - Naturewww.nature.com Population-scale ancient genomics are used to infer ancestry, social structure and pathogen infection in 108 Scandinavian Neolithic individuals from eight megalithic graves and a stone cist, showing t...

Today's Data Insight is written by my colleague @bastianherre.bsky.social. Many young people are not making use of their right to vote. This year, there are almost 100 elections worldwide. I'd love to see more young people get out to vote and contribute to political change.

Young people are less likely to vote than older people — often considerably soourworldindata.org In many countries, there are large differences in voter turnout between young and older people. The chart shows the data for recent national elections in four countries.

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GiveDirectly: Send money to people living in povertywww.givedirectly.org GiveDirectly allows donors to send money directly to people in poverty with no strings attached. Our approach is guided by rigorous evidence of impact and our values of efficiency, transparency, and r...

In the last two decades, the world has made very good progress against global poverty. Except at the very lowest cutoffs. The very, very poorest people in our world live on extremely little and this situation has barely changed since 2010. A fact that doesn't get the attention that it deserves.

The reduction of child mortality is one of the big achievements of our time. But it is hard to celebrate something that is *not* happening. So, for my new article, I turned things around. This is the main chart and takeaway. Here is the article: ourworldindata.org/children-sav...

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This job sounds great. I love the very clearly specified skills and experience requirements

We have a full-time position available for a writer at @OurWorldInData! A job where you can entirely focus on writing — an absolute dream job, if you ask me. You can find all details and how you can apply here: ourworldindata.org/writer-q2-2024

We’re hiring a Writerourworldindata.org We are looking for a passionate and skilled writer to join our team.

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Impact! Great to see Our World in Data was cited twice in the US’s Economic Report of the President. Our World in Data was relied on in relation to work on the comparison of population projections over time, and the rate of technological adoption in the US. www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...

The 2024 Economic Report of the President | CEA | The White Housewww.whitehouse.gov Today, the Council of Economic Advisers under the leadership of Chair Jared Bernstein released the 2024 Economic Report of the President, the 78th report since the establishment of CEA in 1946. The 20...

My motivation for founding Our World in Data was to overcome the reality that the most important data is locked away behind paywalls. I wanted evidence to be accessible to *everyone*. If you find our work valuable, help us to make data and research accessible to all. ourworldindata.org/donate

38 million km² of land are used for the production of meat and dairy — either as grazing land or cropland to grow animal feed. This is an area as large as the entirety of the Americas. From my article on how we can protect the world's wilderness: ourworldindata.org/agricultural...

'Cancer mortality has declined in many countries' — our Data Insight today, written by my colleague @scientificdiscovery.dev . Here are all our Data Insights: ourworldindata.org/data-insights

The majority of people in countries around the world support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates their share. The new article by Hannah Ritchie on Our World in Data: 'More people care about climate change than you think' ourworldindata.org/climate-chan...

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Japan’s cherry trees have been blossoming earlier due to warmer spring temperatures ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

'More people care about climate change than you think' My colleague @hannahritchie.bsky.social just published her latest article on Our World in Data: ourworldindata.org/climate-chan...

More people care about climate change than you thinkourworldindata.org The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.

Last week, we launched Data Insights, our new brief format on Our World in Data. We just published our seventh Data Insight — 'Declining child mortality, fast and slow'. ourworldindata.org/data-insights

The new Our World in Data article by my colleague @hannahritchie.bsky.social is online. It is about the history & future of *weather forecasts* — she shows that they have become much more accurate and explains why we should make good forecasts available to all. ourworldindata.org/weather-fore...

I've updated my Short History of Global Living Conditions. here it is: ourworldindata.org/a-history-of...

Indonesia’s shift to cleaner cooking fuels has greatly improved air quality and health Our latest, short 'Data Insight' on Our World in Data: ourworldindata.org/data-insights

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Extreme poverty in China has been almost eliminated — first in urban, then in rural regions. Loving the new Data Insights series from Our World in Data - exploration of a key insight in a single chart ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

We just launched a new, additional article format on Our World in Data. We are calling it “Data Insights”. It's a very short format of just one chart and the takeaway from it — a bit like a post here on bluesky. We hope you like it! ourworldindata.org/launching-da...

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How many countries have nuclear weapons, how many warheads do they possess, and how has this changed over time? We just updated and revised our topic page on nuclear weapons @OurWorldinData: ourworldindata.org/nuclear-weapons A thread on what the page has in store: polisky

We’re looking for a new colleague at Our World in Data! The full details for this Junior Data Scientist role are here: ourworldindata.org/junior-data-... The deadline to apply is Sunday 17 March 2024 If you know someone who might be interested, please consider sharing with them — thank you!

My new Our World in Data article is out. It is about the global fight against polio. A generation ago, polio paralyzed hundreds of thousands of children every year. Our generation has the chance to eradicate it entirely — if we make it a priority. Here it is: ourworldindata.org/global-fight...

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Was 8th/9th Century China Meritocratic? Wen, Wang and Hout have done something truly remarkable. They have constructed a dataset from 3,640 tomb epitaphs, to analyse social mobility during the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE)! www.ggd.world/p/was-8th-ce...

The share of children who died before they are 5 years old declined in all world regions. Africa 32% ➘ 7% Asia 25% ➘ 3% Oceania 9% ➘ 2% Latin America & Caribbean 21% ➘ 2% Northern America 4% ➘ 0.6% Europe 9% ➘ 0.4% Globally 22% ➘ 3.7% From ourworldindata.org/child-mortal...

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We are offering International Fellowships to enable early career researchers from around the world to come to the UK for two years to undertake original research in the humanities or social sciences. Please spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

International Fellowships 2024www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for three years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

I always loved animals and so I recently got myself a nice camera, so that I can take photos when I'm outdoors. Unfortunately there are not many animals around during the British winter, but you can always count on the squirrels. The other day I took a photo of this little guy.

How the world population is changing: • From dark blue to green this visualization shows how the global population changed since 1950. • In shades of yellow you see what demographers expect for the coming decades. My short text on this gigantic transformation: ourworldindata.org/global-popul...

Global data shows that many children learn only very little in school. What can be done to change this and offer a good education to all? I've written this article to make this problem understandable and answer that question: ourworldindata.org/better-learn...

Millions of children learn only very little. How can the world provide a better education to the next generation?ourworldindata.org Research suggests that many children – especially in the world’s poorest countries – learn only very little in school. What can we do to improve this?

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My book, "The Invented State: Misperceptions in the American Public" is out and available to order: www.amazon.com/Invented-Sta.... Here's the argument in a nutshell -- I'll use this thread to expand on each point.