Max Roser

Most electricity in the Netherlands now comes from renewables.

This is today's @ourworldindata.org Data Insight from my colleague @simonvanteutem.bsky.social.

All our Data Insights are here: ourworldindata.org/data-insights

Every third car in Norway is now an electric car.

At least since the mid-20th century, England has left mass hunger behind. How was this possible? How did English farmers prove Malthus wrong?

My 'Data Insight' on @ourworldindata.org today is about rising yields and falling hunger.

→ ourworldindata.org/data-insights

No, it's not the case that only China is responsible for the large decline in extreme poverty over the past decades.

We wrote about it recently: ourworldindata.org/data-insights/was-the-global-decline-of-extreme-poverty-only-due-to-china

No, it's not the case that only China is responsible for the large decline in extreme poverty over the past decades.

We wrote about it recently: ourworldindata.org/data-insights/was-the-global-decline-of-extreme-poverty-only-due-to-china

My latest Data Insight is about extreme poverty in South East Africa.

In Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, extreme poverty is not declining.

In 2014, half of Greece's electricity was generated by coal.

A decade later, that share has fallen to just 6%.

Two billion people don’t have safe drinking water: what does this really mean for them? For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a million, it means dying from disease.

Two billion people don’t have safe drinking water.

I really like the article of my colleague @hannahritchie.bsky.social, in which she shows what this concretely means for these people, by relying on the portraits of families in Gapminder's Dollar Street project.

ourworldindata.org/what-no-safe...

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My chart on the history of three infectious diseases — smallpox, polio, and measles — before and after a vaccine was available.

For the first time ever, China's CO₂ emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, rather than reduced power demand.

A single dose cuts the chances of measles by about 95% — a second dose reduces the risk further.

How effective and safe are measles vaccines?

In her new article, my colleague @scientificdiscovery.dev summarized the findings of a Cochrane meta-analysis.

ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

A graphic entitled "so long, farewell". It reads: "Many of the 1608 respondents who answered the question below in a Nature survey said that the election of Donald Trump as president had affected their future plans." It then shows the question: "Are you a US researcher who is considering leaving the country following disruptions to science prompted by the Trump administration?" An orange bar shows 75.3% respondents said yes. A blue bar shows 24.7% respondents said no.

I don't doubt that a lot of people are considering leaving, but perhaps someone could tell Nature how to write survey questions

In 2004, it took the world a year to add one gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day.

"Statistics allows us to tell everyone's story." 📊📖

💡 An insightful lecture yesterday afternoon from Prof @maxroser.bsky.social on why we need good data to make good policy.

One thing I admired Americans for was they provided efficient and effective aid for people around the world.

I thought this made America great.

The PEPFAR program saved plausibly about 25 million lives and prevented at least 5.5 million babies from being born with HIV.

See: pepfarreport.org

Thank you, Paul! It was my first time in Leuven, and of course I am now a bit biased, but it felt like a really great place for students.

Thank you, Johan! I hope we'll see each other in June!

Thank you, Alice!

Thank you, Hannah!

I am so very grateful to everyone at KU Leuven and UCLouvain for this extraordinary honour. Receiving an honorary doctorate is something I never would have imagined.

A huge thank you to all of the students and faculty at the two universities. I will never forget these days in Leuven.

Here are pages 3 and 4 in case you’d like to read it.

Earlier this week I did a long interview with the Belgian newspaper DeMorgen.

It’s out today. I just arrived in Belgium and found it at the newsstand. They illustrated it really nicely with some Our World in Data charts.

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. Lecture by honorary doctor Max Roser – “The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.”

They will award me the honorary doctorate for 'making global development more understandable to the public at large.'

And so I'm preparing a talk about global development and why I founded a non-profit, open-access publication.

You can register for the lecture here:
www.kuleuven.be/events/engli...

KU Leuven and UC Louvain are celebrating their 600th anniversary and will award five honorary doctorates as part of this celebration.

I still can't quite believe it, but they decided to award one to me.

If you want to join the celebration, I'll give a public lecture next Tuesday.

Our World in Data: Transforming data into global impact

📊 Bringing data to life can spark global impact. @maxroser.bsky.social @ourworldindata.org started as a small project - now it reaches 100M+ users annually, empowering policymakers, educators & researchers worldwide. Max shares his story here: 📺 www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/our-world-in... #InnovationStories

Thank you for telling me Peter — I've now shared it in screenshots so you can read it if you like.

apparently this gift link is not working — here is the full article in four screenshots:

I'm really happy you joined Claire!

Opinion | We Need a New Global Measure for Poverty (Gift Article) Eradicating poverty is at the top of the U.N.’s stated goals. But their measure of poverty is only half the story.

'We Need a New Global Measure for Poverty'

Four months ago, I made this proposal in the New York Times. I think with this 'gift article' link you can read it without being a subscriber: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...