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| 2014 || June || Website launch || {{w|Max Roser}} launches <code>ourworldindata.org</code>.<ref name="Our World in Data is at Y Combinator"/><ref name="Funding request for Our World In Data">{{cite web |title=Funding request for Our World In Data |url=https://www.maxroser.com/funding-for-ourworldindata/ |website=maxroser.com |accessdate=26 June 2019}}</ref>

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| 2014 || December || Funding || The Nuffield Foundation awards a grant to expand [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] over the course of 2015.<ref name="Funding request for Our World In Data"/>

| 2015 || || Team || Lindsay Lee, Mohamed Nagdy and Julia Murphy join OWID research team. Zdenek Hynek becomes the first web developer in the team and builds the initial prototype of OWID-Grapher.<ref name="Former Team Members and Contributors"/>

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| 2015 || August 23 || Recognition || Canadian-American popular science author {{w|Steven Pinker}} places Our World in Data on his list of his personal “cultural highlights”<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/aug/23/on-my-radar-steven-pinker-psychologist-author|title=On my radar: Steven Pinker’s cultural highlights|last=Observer|first=Steven Pinker/the|date=2015-08-23|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=17 June 2019}}</ref> and explains in his article on 'the most interesting recent scientific news' why he considers Our World in Data so very important.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26616|title=Human Progress Quantified – Edge answer by Steven Pinker|website=www.edge.org|access-date=17 June 2019}}</ref>

| 2015 || September 23 || Coverage || Material from [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] is used for ''Don’t Panic, How to End Poverty'', a documentary film with {{w|Hans Rosling}} and produced by Wingspan Productions for ''[[w:This World (TV series)|This World]]'' on {{w|BBC Two}}.<ref name="Our Audience & Coverage"/>

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| 2016–2017 || || Team || Jaiden Mispy joins [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] as {{w|web developer}} during this period.<ref name="Former Team Members and Contributors">{{cite web |title=Former Team Members and Contributors |url=https://ourworldindata.org/former-team-members |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=20 June 2019}}</ref>

| 2016 || || Team || Esteban Ortiz-Ospina joins research team.<ref name="Our Team">{{cite web |title=Our Team |url=https://ourworldindata.org/team |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=20 June 2019}}</ref>

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| 2016 || April 25 || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes data showing decline of {{w|malaria}} deaths by world region.<ref>{{cite web |title=Malaria is killing fewer people |url=https://ourworldindata.org/malaria-is-killing-fewer-people |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=17 June 2019}}</ref>

| 2016 || May 20 || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study indicating the decline of fertility around the globe.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fertility can decline extremely fast |url=https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-can-decline-extremely-fast |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=17 June 2019}}</ref>

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| 2017 || || Team || Hannah Ritchie, Joe Hasell, Diana Beltekian, Marco Molteni, and Sophie Ochmann join OWID research team.<ref name="Our Team"/><ref name="Former Team Members and Contributors"/>

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| 2017 || April 21 || Coverage || {{w|Our World in Data}} is cited in academic paper ''Ecosystem management as a wicked problem'', by Ruth DeFries and Harini Nagendra; published in '[[w:Science (journal)|Science]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nagendra|first=Harini|last2=DeFries|first2=Ruth|date=2017-04-21|title=Ecosystem management as a wicked problem|url=http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6335/265|journal=Science|volume=356|issue=6335|pages=265–270|doi=10.1126/science.aal1950|issn=0036-8075|pmid=28428392}}</ref>

| 2017 || June 20 || Coverage || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] is cited in academic paper ''Future of fundamental discovery in US biomedical research'' by Michael Levitt and Jonathan M. Levitt.<ref name="Our Audience & Coverage">{{cite web |title=Our Audience & Coverage |url=https://ourworldindata.org/coverage |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=20 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Levitt |first1=Michael |last2=Levitt |first2=Jonathan M. |title=Future of fundamental discovery in US biomedical research |doi=10.1073/pnas.1609996114 |url=https://www.pnas.org/content/114/25/6498}}</ref>

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| 2017 || September 11 || Coverage || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] is cited in academic paper ''The global distribution of economic activity: nature, history, and the role of trade'', by J. Vernon Henderson, Tim Squires, Adam Storeygard, and David Weil.<ref name="Our Audience & Coverage"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Henderson |first1=J Vernon |last2=Squires |first2=Tim |last3=Storeygard |first3=Adam |last4=Weil |first4=David |title=The Global Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History, and the Role of Trade |doi=10.1093/qje/qjx030 |url=https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/133/1/357/4110418?redirectedFrom=fulltext |accessdate=20 June 2019}}</ref>

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| 2017 || || Coverage || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] is cited in ''An Introduction to Global Health Delivery'' by {{w|Joia S. Mukherje}}.<ref name="Our Audience & Coverage"/>

| 2018 || February 13 || Coverage || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] is cited in {{w|Stephen Pinker}}'s ''Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress''.<ref name="Our Audience & Coverage"/>

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| 2018 || April || Coverage || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] is cited in ''Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think'', by {{w|Hans Rosling}}, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund.<ref name="Our Audience & Coverage"/>

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| 2018 || June 28 || Coverage || The online publication [https://sdg-tracker.org/ SDG-Tracker] launches. It presents data across all available indicators, and relies on the {{w|Our World in Data}} database and is also based at the {{w|University of Oxford}}.<ref name="Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals"/><ref name=":14">Ritchie, Roser, Mispy, Ortiz-Ospina. "Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals." ''[https://sdg-tracker.org/ SDG-Tracker.org], website'' (2018).</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sdg.iisd.org/news/sdg-tracker-org-releases-new-resources/|title=SDG-Tracker.org Releases New Resources {{!}} News {{!}} SDG Knowledge Hub {{!}} IISD|last=Hub|first=IISD's SDG Knowledge|language=en-US|access-date=17 June 2019}}</ref> The publication has global coverage and tracks whether the world is making progress towards the SDGs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fondsnieuws.nl/nieuws/eerste-tracker-die-progressie-op-sdgs-land-volgt|title=Eerste 'tracker' die progressie op SDG's per land volgt {{!}} Fondsnieuws|website=www.fondsnieuws.nl|access-date=2019-03-10}}</ref> It aims to make the data on the 17 goals available and understandable to a wide audience.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://17goals.org/the-sdg-tracker/|title=17Goals – The SDG Tracker: Charts, graphs and data at your fingertips|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-10}}</ref>

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| 2019 || January || || {{w|Our World in Data}} announces they're part of {{w|Y Combinator}}.<ref name="Our World in Data is at Y Combinator">{{cite web |title=Our World in Data is at Y Combinator |url=https://ourworldindata.org/owid-at-ycombinator |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=17 June 2019}}</ref> It is one of only 3 {{w|nonprofit organization}}s in [[w:Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator's]] Winter 2019 cohort.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/our-world-in-data/|title=YC-backed Our World in Data wants you to know what’s changing about the planet|website=TechCrunch|access-date=19 June 2019}}</ref>

| 2019 || June 11 || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study showing empirical evidence of disminution of the trend of {{w|child mortality}} worldwide.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roser |first1=Max |title=Mortality in the past – around half died as children |url=https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=17 June 2019}}</ref>

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