Emerging COVID-19 Success Story: South Korea Learned the Lessons of MERSSouth Korea is one country which has responded well to the Coronavirus pandemic. How did they do so? In-country experts provide key insights.By Guest Authors — June 30, 2020
Emerging COVID-19 success story: Germany’s strong enabling environmentGermany is one country which has responded well to the Coronavirus pandemic. How did they do so? In-country experts provide key insights.By Guest Authors — June 30, 2020
How experts use data to identify emerging COVID-19 success storiesHow can we identify which countries have responded well to the Coronavirus pandemic? We look at the key metrics that help us identify success stories.By Guest Authors — June 30, 2020
A pandemic primer on excess mortality statistics and their comparability across countriesExcess mortality has become a key metric to understand the true impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. But how is excess mortality measured; and what can we learn from cross-country comparisons? Janine Aron and John Muellbauer provide an overview on excess mortality statistics.By Hannah Ritchie — June 29, 2020
We teamed up with Kurzgesagt to make a video about climate change: ‘Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It?’We teamed up with the YouTube channel Kurzgesagt to produce a video on climate change: ‘Who is responsible for climate change? – Who needs to fix it?’.By Hannah Ritchie — June 22, 2020
Is the world making progress against the pandemic? We built the chart to answer this questionBy Max Roser — June 08, 2020
Best practices for governments reporting COVID-19 testing dataData on COVID-19 testing is crucial. But 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.By Joe Hasell, Edouard Mathieu, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser — June 03, 2020
Google Mobility Trends: How has the pandemic changed the movement of people around the world?By Hannah Ritchie — June 02, 2020
COVID-19 Data ExplorerExplore all of our data on COVID-19 vaccinations, cases, excess mortality, and much more.By Our World in Data team — May 15, 2020
How to read the famous Coronavirus trajectory chart – Video ExplainerBy Hannah Ritchie — May 14, 2020
How do the carbon footprint of foods compare? – Our article as a videoBy Hannah Ritchie — May 14, 2020
How are governments responding to the Coronavirus pandemic?How are countries responding to the pandemic? When and what measures have countries put in place?By Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser — May 07, 2020
What can data on testing tell us about the pandemic?Data on the extent of testing for COVID-19 provides important information about the reliability of the data we use to understand the spread of the virus’. Here we discuss two measures of the extent testing and what they can tell us about the pandemic.By Joe Hasell — April 13, 2020
How to embed interactive COVID-19 charts in your articlesOur goal is to bring together the best data and build the visualization tools that allows you to understand the spread of the pandemic. Our free, open-access charts cover all countries in the world. Here we show how to customize and embed charts in your own articles.By Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser — April 09, 2020
We teamed up with Kurzgesagt to make a video about the COVID-19 pandemicWe worked with the Youtube channel, Kurzgesagt, to make a video on the COVID-19 pandemic and what to do about it. By Max Roser and Hannah Ritchie — March 23, 2020
COVID-19 deaths and cases: how do sources compare?There are three main data sources on the latest Coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19). How do estimates of confirmed cases and deaths compare?By Hannah Ritchie, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, Max Roser and Joe Hasell — March 19, 2020
Food waste is responsible for 6% of global greenhouse gas emissionsFood losses and waste – in supply chains and by consumers – account for around one-quarter of greenhouse gas emissions from food. That’s 6% of total global emissions. By Hannah Ritchie — March 18, 2020
The carbon footprint of foods: are differences explained by the impacts of methane?How we treat the climate impacts of methane has a significant difference on the carbon footprint of foods. But even if we exclude methane, meat and dairy products have the highest footprint.By Hannah Ritchie — March 10, 2020
The Spanish flu: The global impact of the largest influenza pandemic in historyBy Max Roser — March 04, 2020
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. The differences are huge.By Hannah Ritchie — February 10, 2020