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Exemplars in Global Health: Learning from the most successful countries in the world

Max Roser

June & July 2020 product updates

An overview of the features that we built in the last two months.

Ernst van Woerden

Our history is a battle against the microbes: we lost terribly before science, public health, and vaccines allowed us to protect ourselves

For most of history, we were losing the battle against microbes. Vaccines were one of the breakthroughs that turned it around.

Max Roser

A pandemic primer on excess mortality statistics and their comparability across countries

Excess mortality has become a key metric to understand the true impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. How is excess mortality measured; and what can we learn from cross-country comparisons?

Janine Aron, John Muellbauer, Charlie Giattino, and Hannah Ritchie

We teamed up with Kurzgesagt to make a video about climate change: 'Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It?'

A video about the contributors to climate change, and how countries can work together.

Hannah Ritchie

Best practices for governments reporting COVID-19 testing data

Not all countries report their data in a helpful way. To help official providers of testing data, we set out some simple recommendations based the best reporting practices across the countries included in our testing dataset.

Joe Hasell, Edouard Mathieu, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, and Max Roser

Google Mobility Trends: How has the pandemic changed the movement of people around the world?

Data tracking public mobility trends over the pandemic

Hannah Ritchie

How to read the famous coronavirus trajectory chart — video explainer

What we can and can’t learn from COVID-19 charts.

Hannah Ritchie

How do the carbon footprints of foods compare? Our article as a video.

Which foods have the highest and lowest carbon footprint?

Hannah Ritchie

We teamed up with Kurzgesagt to make a video about the COVID-19 pandemic

We worked with the Youtube channel, Kurzgesagt, to make a video on the COVID-19 pandemic and what to do about it.

Max Roser and Hannah Ritchie

Food waste is responsible for 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions

Food waste accounts for around one-quarter of greenhouse gas emissions from food. That's 6% of total global emissions.

Hannah Ritchie

The carbon footprint of foods: are differences explained by the impacts of methane?

How we treat the climate impacts of methane matters a lot for the carbon footprint of foods. But even if we exclude methane, meat and dairy products emit the most.

Hannah Ritchie

The Spanish flu: the global impact of the largest influenza pandemic in history

The Spanish flu pandemic had a devastating impact on the global population.

Max Roser

What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy?

Fossil fuels are the dirtiest and most dangerous energy sources, while nuclear and modern renewable energy sources are vastly safer and cleaner.

Hannah Ritchie

Less meat is nearly always better than sustainable meat, to reduce your carbon footprint

Plant-based protein sources still have a lower footprint than the lowest-impact meat products.

Hannah Ritchie

Very little of global food is transported by air; this greatly reduces the climate benefits of eating local

Transporting food by plane can come with a large carbon footprint. But very little of our food travels this way – just 0.16% of food miles are from air travel.

Hannah Ritchie

You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local

“Eat local” is a common recommendation to reduce your diet's carbon footprint. How does the impact of what you eat compare to where it comes from?

Hannah Ritchie

Is there a loneliness epidemic?

The media claims we are experiencing a ‘loneliness epidemic’. What is the evidence for this?

Esteban Ortiz-Ospina

Are people more likely to be lonely in so-called 'individualistic' societies?

In countries such as Denmark and Switzerland, it is very common for people to live alone; but contrary to what many believe, this does not translate into higher loneliness. Loneliness and aloneness are not the same.

Esteban Ortiz-Ospina

Antiretroviral therapy has saved millions of lives from AIDS and could save more

Since the late 1980s, antiretroviral therapy has already saved millions of lives from HIV/AIDS. But millions of people with HIV still aren’t getting this life-saving treatment.

Bernadeta Dadonaite

The importance of personal relations for economic outcomes

Social connections matter for economic outcomes. Personal relations, even those that we maintain for non-economic reasons, often give us access to information and provide us with social collateral for economic transactions.

Esteban Ortiz-Ospina