Type of business | Non-profit affiliated with the University of Oxford |
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Headquarters | Oxford, England |
Owner | Global Change Data Lab |
Founder(s) | Max Roser |
Revenue | £1,784,746 (2022) [1] |
URL | ourworldindata |
Commercial | No |
Launched | May 2013 [2] |
Current status | Active |
Our World in Data (OWID) is a scientific online publication that focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality.
It is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a registered charity in England and Wales, [3] and was founded by Max Roser, a social historian and development economist. The research team is based at the University of Oxford. [4] The organization is chaired by Hetan Shah.
Our World in Data uses interactive charts and maps to illustrate research findings, often taking a long-term view to show how global living conditions have changed over time.
As of April 2024, Our World in Data categorize their charts and articles by the following topics on their website: [5]
Roser began his work on the project in 2011, [6] adding a research team at the University of Oxford later on. In the first years, Roser developed the publication together with inequality researcher Sir Tony Atkinson. [6] Hannah Ritchie joined in 2017 and became Head of Research. [7] Edouard Mathieu joined in 2020 and became Head of Data. [8] The organization began the COVID-19 pandemic with six staff members, and grew to 20 by late 2021. [9] [10]
In 2019, Our World in Data won the Lovie Award, a European web award, [11] and was one of three nonprofit organizations in Y Combinator's Winter 2019 cohort. [12] [13]
Beginning in 2020, Our World in Data added an emphasis on publishing global data and research on the COVID-19 pandemic:
In 2021, the team began campaigning for the International Energy Agency to make the data it collects from national governments publicly available. [31]
Global Change Data Lab, the non-profit that publishes Our World in Data and the open-access data tools that make the online publication possible, is funded through a mix of grants, sponsors, and reader donations. [32]
The research team collaborated with the science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt. [37] [38]
In the coronavirus pandemic, the team partnered with epidemiologists from Harvard's Chan School of Public Health and the Robert Koch Institute to study countries that have responded successfully in the early phase of the pandemic. [39] Janine Aron and John Muellbauer worked with OWID to research excess mortality during the pandemic. [40]
In 2022, FTX's Future Fund offered Our World in Data a $7.5 million grant to support their activities. Max Roser told Fortune that Our World in Data's board of trustees ultimately rejected the grant money after conducting due diligence and other checks. [41]
In 2021, the Our World in Data website had 89 million unique visitors. [42]
Our World in Data has been cited in academic scientific journals, [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] medicine and global health journals, [48] [49] and social science journals. [50] The Washington Post , The New York Times , [51] and The Economist [52] have used Our World in Data as a source.
The site uses permissive licenses to allow others to copy, modify, and distribute the work (CC BY for content and the MIT License for software). [53]
Although much of the data compiled relate to human conditions, a few of the time series describe environmental conditions. The graphic is a plot of a compilation of time series since 1900 for human population, CO2 emitted and in the atmosphere, global temperature, precipitation, and sea level, as well as total solar irradiance from U. Colo. Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment.
Vaccination is the administration of a vaccine to help the immune system develop immunity from a disease. Vaccines contain a microorganism or virus in a weakened, live or killed state, or proteins or toxins from the organism. In stimulating the body's adaptive immunity, they help prevent sickness from an infectious disease. When a sufficiently large percentage of a population has been vaccinated, herd immunity results. Herd immunity protects those who may be immunocompromised and cannot get a vaccine because even a weakened version would harm them. The effectiveness of vaccination has been widely studied and verified. Vaccination is the most effective method of preventing infectious diseases; widespread immunity due to vaccination is largely responsible for the worldwide eradication of smallpox and the elimination of diseases such as polio and tetanus from much of the world. However, some diseases, such as measles outbreaks in America, have seen rising cases due to relatively low vaccination rates in the 2010s – attributed, in part, to vaccine hesitancy. According to the World Health Organization, vaccination prevents 3.5–5 million deaths per year.
Max Roser is an economist and philosopher who focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality.
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Misinformation related to immunization and the use of vaccines circulates in mass media and social media in spite of the fact that there is no serious hesitancy or debate within mainstream medical and scientific circles about the benefits of vaccination. Unsubstantiated safety concerns related to vaccines are often presented on the internet as being scientific information. A large proportion of internet sources on the topic are mostly inaccurate which can lead people searching for information to form misconceptions relating to vaccines.
As of 12 August 2024, 13.53 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, with 70.6 percent of the global population having received at least one dose. While 4.19 million vaccines were then being administered daily, only 22.3 percent of people in low-income countries had received at least a first vaccine by September 2022, according to official reports from national health agencies, which are collated by Our World in Data.
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