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Max Roser launched Our World in Data in 2011 as a social historian and development economist. He began by visualizing global data on poverty, disease, and inequality to make complex statistics accessible.
The project started at the University of Oxford where Max Roser developed the initial publication alongside Sir Tony Atkinson. This early collaboration focused on long-term views of how living conditions changed over time.
Hannah Ritchie joined the team in 2017 and eventually became Head of Research. Edouard Mathieu arrived in 2020 to lead the data division.
The United Nations and the White House relied on their global dataset for testing information. These datasets became primary sources for the World Health Organization and numerous international journals.
In 2021, the website recorded 89 million unique visitors seeking data on social problems. Academic journals and news outlets such as The Washington Post cite these findings regularly.