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Published: June 13, 2026 09:11
Just over one-third of the world’s assessed fish stocks are overexploited— How much of the world’s fish stocks are overfished?
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Published: June 11, 2026 11:48
How can we measure the state of democracy around the world? Measuring democracy is challenging. It has many dimensions, and researchers assess them in different ways. No single source of data captures the full picture, so we present data from several of…
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Published: June 11, 2026 09:02
Spain and Portugal both get over 40% of their electricity from solar and wind— On the Iberian Peninsula, Spain and Portugal have scaled up solar and wind power almost in step.
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Published: June 10, 2026 14:28
The cost of computer memory and storage has fallen exponentially.
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Published: June 10, 2026 09:38
How much do countries spend on their militaries? How has this changed over time, and how do different countries compare? The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (@sipri.org) provides a key resource for answering these questions and more.
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Published: June 9, 2026 08:28
Where are more people dying than being born? For most of human history, more people were born each year than died. Populations grew very slowly for most of this history, then rapidly in recent centuries, as child mortality plummeted and people lived…
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Published: June 8, 2026 10:55
The world has become much more resilient to disaster events over the last century. In the chart here, you can see estimates of average death rates — measured as the number of deaths per 100,000 people — by decade since the early 20th century.
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Published: June 6, 2026 11:55
What is the largest source of electricity in each country? Coal generates one-third of the world’s electricity, more than any other source. But zoom into the country level, and the picture is much more varied.
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Published: June 5, 2026 10:03
The latest OWID Brief newsletter is out on Substack! It delivers all our recent work plus curated highlights from across Our World in Data, right to your inbox twice a month. This edition: Child deaths, LGBT+ rights, electric vehicle sales, and much more.
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Published: June 4, 2026 16:26
Australia is replacing coal and gas power with solar and wind— At the turn of the millennium, Australia got more than 80% of its electricity from coal. This has dropped to less than 45%. The chart shows how the country’s electricity mix has changed in…
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Published: June 3, 2026 13:45
Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year. Measles used to be an extremely common disease. Just sixty years ago, over 90% of children would have been infected by it, and of those who developed symptoms, around a quarter would be hospitalized.