Max Roser

Max Roser

Max Roser | Our World in Data

A group of cows are grazing peacefully in a lush green field.
Hundreds of millions of animals get killed for meat every day.
a person standing in a room with a white wall.
If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history.
a black and white photo of a woman and a child.
The chances that a newborn survives childhood have increased from 50% to 96% globally.
a woman working on a laptop in a factory.
It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime.
Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do.
Population growth is driven by three changes: Fertility, mortality, and migration.
It is wrong to think that these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.
Are we close to the end of poverty? Two people look over a neighborhood in Bogota.
The decline of global poverty is one of the most important achievements in history, but the end of poverty is still very far away.
An old man looking out of the blinds.
Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries despite paying much more for healthcare. We explore the number of factors which might explain this difference.