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Our World in Data was founded by Max Roser, a social historian and development economist, who began the project in 2011. Its research team is based at the University of Oxford, and the organization is chaired by Hetan Shah.
Our World in Data focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, war, climate change, population growth, existential risks, and inequality. As of April 2024, its charts and articles are sorted into ten categories, including Health, Energy and Environment, and Human Rights and Democracy.
Our World in Data's website had 89 million unique visitors in 2021.
Beginning in 2020, Our World in Data built and maintained a worldwide database on COVID-19 vaccinations, used by the World Health Organization, researchers, journals, and newspapers. It also maintained a global COVID-19 testing dataset used by the United Nations, the White House, and the World Health Organization, and published data on hospitalizations and excess deaths.
No, in 2022 FTX's Future Fund offered Our World in Data a $7.5 million grant, but Max Roser told Fortune that the organization's board of trustees rejected the money after conducting due diligence and other checks.
Our World in Data uses a Creative Commons Attribution license for its content and the MIT License for its software, allowing others to copy, modify, and distribute the work.