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📊 New data: World Development Indicators, July 2026 release
The World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank’s compilation of statistics on global development. It covers over 1,500 indicators for more than 200 countries and territories, with some series going back to
📝 New article on Our World in Data: Beef production in Brazil has been the largest driver of global deforestation in recent decades.
The largest driver of deforestation globally is the expansion of agricultural land. Since the turn of the century, an area of forest five times
How often are people infected with malaria?
(This Data Insight was written by @_HannahRitchie.)
Malaria is an infectious disease that kills over 600,000 people a year. Most of them, children.
Its high death toll is at least partly explained by the fact that there are so many
Drowning is a common cause of death among children — the world has made progress, but more can be done.
(This Data Insight was written by @EOrtizOspina.)
More than 100,000 children under the age of 15 died from drowning in 2023. I found this statistic staggering when I first
