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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 10/08/2026
30% of the world’s CO₂ emissions have a carbon price. What we pay for something in a shop often doesn’t reflect its true cost. Producing goods causes damage through carbon emissions that drive climate change, but the receipts for that damage rarely show up in the price.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 15/07/2026
How do we track a changing climate? Among all the charts on our site, the one here reaches further back in time than almost any other: the concentration of CO₂ in Earth’s atmosphere over the last 800,000 years.
Line chart of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration in parts per million, where CO2 stayed below 300 ppm for most of the last 800,000 years with repeated glacial–interglacial swings, then rises sharply in the 20th and 21st centuries to reach 426 ppm in 2025. Data source: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory — Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (2026); EPA based on various sources (2022). License: CC BY.
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Pablo Rosado @pablorosado.com · 07/07/2026
Mosquitoes spread malaria. Humans let it continue. youtu.be/BJYfSfh7eWs @givingwhatwecan.bsky.social
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The Deadliest Decision You've Never Heard of
YouTube video by Justin Portela
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Pablo Rosado @pablorosado.com · 22/06/2026
Environmentalists, climate scientists and economists disagree about many things. But they tend to agree on one thing: those who emit greenhouse gases should pay for the damage they cause. In this new article, we looked at how much carbon price people are actually paying.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 22/06/2026
✍️ New article: “How much are people across the world paying for their carbon emissions?” Around 30% of the world’s CO₂ emissions are covered by a carbon price, through either a tax or a trading scheme.
Area chart of carbon prices (US$ per tonne of CO2) by share of global CO2 emissions where 71% of global emissions have no carbon price and less than 10% face a price greater than $10 per tonne, with only a very small share subject to much higher prices (examples labeled: Norway $214, Uruguay $185, Sweden $150, Germany $68, China about $10 in some sectors). Data source: Dolphin and Merkle (2024) and World Bank (2025); prices are emissions-weighted averages measured in 2021 US dollars. License: CC-BY to Our World in Data.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 16/05/2026
China added a Germany-sized electricity grid last year— (This Data Insight was written by @hannahritchie.bsky.social and @pablorosado.com.) We’ll often see headlines quoting how many gigawatts of new solar farms or coal plants China is building.
Bar chart of the change in China’s electricity generation from 2024 to 2025 compared to the annual electricity generation of other countries, where China’s 2025 increase is about 497 TWh—mostly from solar (340 TWh) and wind (140 TWh)—roughly the size of Germany’s annual generation and larger than countries like South Africa, Italy, Australia, Spain, and the UK (240 to 290 TWh) but smaller than France (570 TWh) and Brazil (750 TWh). Source: Ember (2026). License: CC BY.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 20/04/2026
In a world that often feels deeply polarized, it is rare to find a topic where almost everyone agrees. The treatment of farm animals is one of them. Surveys across many countries show that a strong majority of people, regardless of their diet, oppose common practices in animal agriculture.
Bar chart of survey responses from about 1,000 UK adults in 2022 where most respondents rate a range of common farming practices for chickens, cows and pigs as "not acceptable," highlighting a gap between public concern for farm animals and current practices. Data source: Bryant Research (2022). License: CC BY.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 15/04/2026
📢 We’re looking for a writer to join our team at Our World in Data! What we’re looking for is quite unique: someone who writes excellent narrative articles on large global problems, finds memorable framings to make hard ideas easier to understand, while being genuinely obsessed w/ technical details
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We’re looking for a writer
We’re hiring a writer who can make the world’s largest problems understandable to our large Our World in Data audience.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 19/02/2026
📊 Explore updated data on electricity production in Europe— Electricity is one major part of how we use energy, alongside transport and heating.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 16/01/2026
Our colleague @pablorosado.com recently updated our charts with data on GHG emissions from the publication Jones et al. (2025), which in turn relies on data from the Global Carbon Project (GCP) and PRIMAP-hist. Visit our CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data Explorer:
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CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data Explorer
Explore data on greenhouse gas emissions.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 13/01/2026
The world dedicates a Poland-sized area of land to producing liquid biofuels such as bioethanol & biodiesel. Is there a more efficient way to generate energy? Putting solar panels on the land used for biofuels, e.g., would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks worldwide to go electric.
How much energy can be produced on global land currently used for liquid biofuels?

Bar comparison showing energy per year from land currently used for liquid biofuels: Biofuels for transport — 1,400 TWh per year; Solar panels on the same land — 32,000 TWh per year. Side annotations: 31,000 TWh shown for context as the amount of electricity the world generated in 2024; 7,000 TWh per year shown as the amount of electricity the world would need to power all of its cars and trucks if they were electric.

Note: This assumes the world uses 32 million hectares of land to grow crops for liquid biofuels, based on net land use which subtracts land allocated to co-products such as animal feed, and assumes solar PV uses 1 hectare of land per GWh.

Data source: Energy Institute; Cerulogy; Ember; and author calculations. Chart is licensed CC BY to Our World in Data.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 12/01/2026
📊 Data update: Track battery prices over the last three decades— To transition towards low-carbon energy systems, we need *low-cost* energy storage. Lithium-ion batteries are the most commonly used.
Price of lithium-ion battery cells. Line chart showing representative estimates of battery cell prices in constant 2024 US dollars per kilowatt-hour across major cell chemistries from 1991 to 2024. Main insight: a steep fall from $9,210 per kWh in 1991 to about $78 per kWh in 2024, with most of the decline occurring through the 1990s and early 2000s before prices leveled off and gradually declined further. Y-axis labeled $0 to $10,000 with tick marks at roughly $2,000 intervals; x-axis covers years 1991 to 2024. Note: data are expressed in constant 2024 US$ per kilowatt-hour. Data source: Rupert Way (2026) based on Ziegler and Trancik (2021), BloombergNEF, and Avicenne Energy. Chart is licensed CC BY to Our World in Data.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 06/01/2026
On every continent, food supplies have grown faster than the population— We just lived through the period with the fastest population growth in human history. Six decades ago, there were three billion people on our planet.
The image presents a series of line graphs comparing the growth of food supplies and population from 1961 to 2022 across different continents and globally. 

Food supplies have grown even faster than the population — on every continent.

In the footer, data sources are credited to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for 2024. The image is licensed under Creative Commons by Pablo Rosado and Max Roser.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 16/12/2025
📊 Data update: We’ve updated our charts with the latest data on natural disasters. Tracking the occurrence of natural disasters can save lives by helping countries prepare for future ones. In our work on natural disasters, we visualize data from EM-DAT, the most comprehensive disaster database.
Stacked bar chart showing the number of reported natural disasters globally from 2000 to 2024. Disasters are categorized by type: drought, flood, earthquake, extreme weather, extreme temperature, volcanic activity, wildfire, glacial lake outburst flood, dry mass movement, and wet mass movement. The data source is EM-DAT (2025). The chart is licensed CC BY to Our World in Data.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 13/11/2025
Global CO₂ emissions from fossil fuels are likely to increase this year, while those from land-use change will fall
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 15/11/2025
How much CO₂ can the world emit while limiting global temperature rise?
Bar chart showing estimates of remaining carbon dioxide budgets that give a 50% likelihood of staying below each temperature level, relative to pre-industrial levels. 

A baseline label shows global emissions in 2025 at 42 gigatonnes (Gt) per year. Three vertical bars show remaining CO2 budgets: stay below 1.5°C — 170 Gt, labeled as 4 years of current emissions, with a note that if emissions stay at 2025 levels the 1.5°C budget will be exhausted within 4 years; stay below 1.7°C — 525 Gt, labeled as 12.5 years of current emissions; stay below 2°C — 1055 Gt, labeled as 25 years of current emissions, with an annotation saying that by 2050 we will have exhausted the 2°C budget unless emissions are reduced now. Footer note states these estimates have uncertainty and depend on changes in non-CO2 greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide. Data sources listed as IPCC, Forster et al. (2025) and Global Carbon Project (2025). License CC BY.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 03/07/2025
Human emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are the main drivers of recent climate change.
Chart showing the global average land-sea surface temperature relative to a pre-industrial baseline, the 1861–1890 average

Temperatures have risen by approximately 1.3°C since then (as a measure of climate ,the average over decades)

Temperatures in the last couple years have been closer to 1.5°C.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 02/06/2025
Greece is turning its back on coal and replacing it with solar and wind
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Pablo Rosado @pablorosado.com · 23/04/2025
If you're over 30, you're older than most people in the world
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Pablo Rosado @pablorosado.com · 31/03/2025
Air pollution kills millions each year. But where does it come from? In our new article, @hannahritchie.bsky.social and I dive into the data.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 25/03/2025
Most births in Europe are to mothers in their thirties
The graphic presents a line chart illustrating the shift in birth rates among older mothers in Europe. The title at the top states, "Births have shifted to older mothers in Europe," and the subtitle notes that it depicts the estimated share of total births by the age of the mother.

The vertical axis is labeled with percentages from 0% to 70%, while the horizontal axis covers years from 1950 to 2023. There are four lines representing different age groups: 

- Women aged 20-29, shown in a light gray line, which hovers around 30% in the early years and gradually declines over time.
- Women aged 30-39, depicted in a prominent brown line that crosses above 50% since 2015, indicating they became the age group with the most births.
- Women aged 40-49, represented by a light gray line, which rises slightly in recent years.
- Women aged 10-19, also shown in light gray, with minimal levels of births throughout the time period.
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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🌡 New on @ourworldindata.org: We added global temperature anomaly charts *coloured by El Nino / La Nina periods*. Today's "cool" years are warmer than "warm" years of the past. [New article and charts by my colleague Veronika Samborska and I: ourworldindata.org/global-tempe... ]
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Simon van Teutem @simonvanteutem.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
More land animals than ever before are slaughtered for meat. Recent estimates indicate that globally, most animals are raised on factory farms. In the US, where better data and research are available, 99% of livestock is factory-farmed.
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Pablo Rosado @pablorosado.com · 16/02/2025
For this year's #ProjectForAwesome I met with a few friends who are passionate about making the world better, and we made a bunch of videos about impactful charities we love. 💙 Supporting them is easy: click the links, hit "I'm not a robot" (unless you are), and then "Vote"! Here my favorite (1/4)
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 07/02/2025
In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day
A line graph depicting the average number of days it took to install a gigawatt of solar energy capacity worldwide from 2001 to 2023. The vertical axis represents the number of days on a logarithmic scale, spanning from 1 to 1000 days. The horizontal axis indicates the years from 2001 to 2023. 

In 2004, the average time was about 1 year, which is marked on the graph. A downward trend shows significant decreases in installation time over the years. By 2010, it took under 30 days, and by 2015, just over 7 days. The most notable point is in 2023, where it dropped to about 1 day on average for installation. 

The data source is attributed to IRENA (2024), with calculation by Our World in Data, and the chart is identified as CC BY, indicating it is licensed for sharing and adaptation with appropriate credit.
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 23/01/2025
NEW | Solar generates more EU electricity than coal for the first time in 2024 🇪🇺☀️ Renewables made up nearly HALF of the electricity mix last year, while fossil power fell to a historic low ⚡ ember-energy.org/lat...
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 12/12/2024
Europeans consume more milk and dairy products than in other regions
Bar chart showing milk consumption per person across regions. Europe is the highest, followed by North America. Asia and Africa are both below the global average.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 10/12/2024
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems. We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵
A chart in three parts showing data on child mortality to make the points that "The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time."
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Pablo Rosado @pablorosado.com · 29/11/2024
We're just a bunch of humans. Of more than 100 billion other humans who've ever lived. Orbiting a star among more than 100 billion other stars in the galaxy. Lurking in a galaxy among more than 100 billion other galaxies in the Universe.
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