Explore global data on influenza cases, deaths, and vaccinations.

Billions of people suffer from food insecurity. What does this it mean to be food insecure?

Explore our updated charts, data, and writing on Technological Change across the world.

Technologies that follow Wright’s Law get cheaper at a consistent rate, as the cumulative production of that technology increases.

Explore our updated design, charts, and writing on global data on the Internet.

The chances that a newborn survives childhood have increased from 50% to 96% globally. This article asks how we know about the mortality of children in the past and what we can learn from it for our future.

Age standardization is a statistical method used to compare disease rates, or other health indicators, between populations while accounting for differences in their age structure.

We published a major redesign of our work on global statistics on suicides. Explore all of this data and research in one place.

In the past, relatively few researchers were working on AI technology and there was little commercial interest and funding. Now, the available resources have increased substantially. We should expect that the field continues to advance rapidly.

Exponential growth is at the heart of the rapid increase of computing capabilities.

Global population has increased rapidly over the past century. This period of rapid growth is temporary: the world is entering a new equilibrium and rapid population growth is coming to an end.

We published a redesign of our work on the ozone layer. Explore all of our writing and charts in one place.

On Our World in Data, we present thousands of metrics on hundreds of topics. How do we choose them?

Explore data visualizations on waste management.

We published a major redesign of our work on the Environmental Impacts of Food. Explore all of our data and research in one place.

It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime. Bringing to mind how dramatically the world has changed can help us see how different the world could be in a few years or decades.

We need to focus on the most threatened species to protect them from extinction. But what does it mean for a species to be at risk, and how is it measured?

On this page, you can find data, visualizations, and writing about changes in efficiency, price, and access to lighting.

Many AI experts believe there is a real chance that human-level artificial intelligence will be developed within the next decades, and some believe that it will exist much sooner.

We published a major redesign of our work on Democracy. Explore all our data and research in one place.

On this page, you can find data, visualizations, and writing on global and country-level food prices and expenditures, the affordability of food, and how this has changed over time.