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The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s(ourworldindata.org)

386 points by karakoram 13 days ago | 634 comments

An Our World in Data insight by Hannah Ritchie showing UK electricity generation per person has fallen by a third since its 2003 peak, below 1970s levels.

How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use?(ourworldindata.org)

50 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 44 comments

Resource use matters, but material footprints are a poor way to measure it(ourworldindata.org)

16 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 2 comments

What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on(ourworldindata.org)

596 points by alphabetatango 1 year ago | 375 comments

Our World in Data article comparing the leading causes of death in the US with how often the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News cover them.

How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads(ourworldindata.org)

116 points by sien 1 year ago | 203 comments

A new poverty line shifted the World Bank's poverty data. What changed and why?(ourworldindata.org)

55 points by alphabetatango 1 year ago | 41 comments

2B people don't have safe drinking water: what does this mean for them?(ourworldindata.org)

87 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 66 comments

Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable(ourworldindata.org)

296 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 89 comments

Where in the world are babies at the lowest risk of dying?(ourworldindata.org)

47 points by kamaraju 1 year ago | 39 comments

Less meat is nearly always better than sustainable meat(ourworldindata.org)

12 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 9 comments

What does it mean for a technology to follow Wright's Law?(ourworldindata.org)

23 points by tosh 1 year ago | 1 comments

Where does air pollution come from?(ourworldindata.org)

207 points by kamaraju 1 year ago | 113 comments

It doesn't cost much to improve someone's life(ourworldindata.org)

171 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 217 comments

Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked(ourworldindata.org)

213 points by myroon5 1 year ago | 257 comments

Who would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over different decades?(ourworldindata.org)

61 points by sien 1 year ago | 55 comments

China reduced sulphur dioxide emissions by more than two-thirds in past 15 years(ourworldindata.org)

58 points by therabbithole 1 year ago | 36 comments

What was the Golden Age of Antibiotics, and how can we spark a new one?(ourworldindata.org)

46 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 50 comments

Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with comprehension(ourworldindata.org)

64 points by therabbithole 1 year ago | 62 comments

US airlines transported passengers over two light-years since the last crash(ourworldindata.org)

72 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 82 comments

HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer(ourworldindata.org)

360 points by ZeroGravitas 2 years ago | 163 comments

Our World in Data article by Saloni Dattani and Veronika Samborska on how HPV vaccination and screening could eliminate cervical cancer worldwide.

The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it(ourworldindata.org)

82 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 95 comments

Cancer Incidence by Country(ourworldindata.org)

34 points by gniv 2 years ago | 38 comments

Eating meat with lower carbon footprint often means killing more animals(ourworldindata.org)

42 points by therabbithole 2 years ago | 58 comments

Weather forecasts have become more accurate(ourworldindata.org)

332 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 178 comments

Our World in Data article by Hannah Ritchie on how weather forecasts have grown more accurate and the need to make them available globally.

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better(ourworldindata.org)

363 points by colonCapitalDee 2 years ago | 265 comments

Max Roser essay on Our World in Data arguing the world is simultaneously awful, much better than before, and capable of becoming much better.

Why do women live longer than men?(ourworldindata.org)

30 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 15 comments

Guinea worm disease is close to being eradicated(ourworldindata.org)

187 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 28 comments

How many animals get slaughtered every day?(ourworldindata.org)

62 points by myshpa 3 years ago | 16 comments

Extreme poverty: How far have we come, and how far do we still have to go?(ourworldindata.org)

33 points by bpierre 3 years ago | 49 comments

Per capita CO₂ emissions Over Time(ourworldindata.org)

43 points by elsewhen 3 years ago | 56 comments

In every country people think others are less happy than they themselves say (2017)(ourworldindata.org)

79 points by elsewhen 3 years ago | 74 comments