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This is a timeline of Our World in Data, an online publication that presents empirical research and data on global change, in particular global living conditions.

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2011 "Launched in 2011 by founder and program director Max Roser, an economist at the University of Oxford, Our World in Data is a collaborative effort of University of Oxford researchers, who serve as the scientific editors of the site's content, and the nonprofit Global Change Data Lab, "[1]
2013 Max Roser, Hannah Ritchie and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina publish study analizing world population growth.[2]
2013 Joe Hasell and Max Roser publish study focusing on the history of famine and famine mortality over time.[3]
2013 Max Roser, Cameron Appel and Hannah Ritchie publish study analizing human height.[4]
2013 Max Roser and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina publish studies covering extreme poverty[5], as well as happiness and life satisfaction;[6] and literacy.[7]
2013 Max Roser publishes study analizing ethnographic and archaeological evidence on violent deaths, and showing how levels of violence in prehistoric times and in non-state societies are shown to be much higher than in modern state societies and in the world today.[8]
2013 July Max Roser, Mohamed Nagdy and Hannah Ritchie publish study analizing terrorism.[9]
2013 December Max Roser publishes study analizing global economic inequality.[10]
2013 December Max Roser and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina publish study analizing income inequality.[11]
2014 Summertime "Our World in Data is not a new project: for many years it was an evening and weekend project for Max, who launched the website in the summer of 2014"[12]
2014 Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, Diana Beltekian and Max Roser publish study analizing data and research on international trade patterns.[13]
2014 June Max Roser, Sophie Ochmann, Hannah Behrens and Hannah Ritchie publish study analizing the eradication of infectious diseases.[14]
2014 Max Roser publishes study analizing trends in fertility rate.[15]
2014 November Max Roser and Hannah Ritchie publish studies analizing data on environmental issues including indoor air pollution[16] and ozone layer.[17] as well as data on health issues like HIV/AIDS.[18]
2015 July Max Roser and Hannah Ritchie publish study analizing cancer as a cause of death worldwide.[19]
2015 July Samantha Vanderslott and Max Roser publish study analizing vaccination.[20]
2015 August Lindsay Lee, Max Roser and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina publish study analizing suicide.[21]
2015 August 23 Canadian-American popular science author Steven Pinker places Our World in Data on his list of his personal “cultural highlights”[22] and explains in his article on 'the most interesting recent scientific news' why he considers Our World in Data so very important.[23]
2015 September "In 2015, all countries in the world signed up to reach the SDGs by 2030 and we built this site to track progress towards them"[24] "The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are targets for global development adopted in September 2015, set to be achieved by 2030."[25]
2015 November Max Roser and Hannah Ritchie publish study analizing the burden of malaria worldwide.[26]
2016 Team Esteban Ortiz-Ospina joins research team.[27]
2016 January Study release Max Roser and Hannah Ritchie publish study analizing the global burden of disease.[28]
2016 April 25 Study release Max Roser publishes data showing decline of malaria deaths by world region.[29]
2016 May 20 Study release Max Roser publishes study indicating the decline of fertility around the globe.[30]
2016 June 12 Max Roser publishes study analizing human rights across the world.[31]
2016 October 10 Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser publish study analizing corruption across the world.[32]
2017 Hannah Ritchie, Joe Hasell, Diana Beltekian, and Sophie Ochmann join research team.[27]
2017 April Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser publish study analizing ambient outdoor air pollution.[33]
2017 April 21 Our World in Data is cited in study published in 'Science.[34]
2017 May Study release Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser publish study showing CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions across the globe.[35]
2017 August Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser publish studies analizing diet composition,[36], micronutrient deficiency[37], and meat and seafood production and consumption,[38]
2017 November 9 Sophie Ochmann and Max Roser publish study analizing the burden of poliomyelitis.[39]
2018 February 2 Funding Our World in Data receives almost US$ 1.8 million research grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to enhance its work presenting the empirical research and data on global development.[40]
2018 February Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser publish study analizing changes in causes of death across the world, as global population increases, life expectancy rises, and living standards improve.[41]
2018 March Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, Sandra Tzvetkova and Max Roser publish study analizing female labor supply.[42]
2018 March Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser publish study analizing gender pay gap.[43]
2018 April Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser publish studes analizing alcohol consumption[44], substance use[45], and mental health.[46]
2018 April 21 Recognition Bill Gates refers to Max Roser as "one his favorite economists".[47]
2018 June 28 The online publication SDG-Tracker launches. It presents data across all available indicators, and relies on the Our World in Data database and is also based at the University of Oxford.[25][48][49] The publication has global coverage and tracks whether the world is making progress towards the SDGs.[50] It aims to make the data on the 17 goals available and understandable to a wide audience.[51]
2018 September Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser publish studes analizing trend in urbanization[52], as well as plastic pollution in the environment.[53]
2019 January Our World in Data announces they're part of Y Combinator.[12] It is one of only 3 nonprofit organizations in Y Combinator's Winter 2019 cohort.[54][55]
2019 April 24 Our World In Data releases infographic providing an overview of Earth's biomass, how it is distributed between taxonomic group of organisms, and the environments within which they live.[56]
2019 April 26 Study release Hannah Ritchie publishes study on global biomass showing how life spans across the planet's three high-level habitat environments.[57]
2019 April 29 Study release Joe Hasell publishes study on data collected from nine countries showing that women are very underrepresented at the top of the income distribution. However, women are at this time better represented in top income groups than they were in 2000.[58]
2019 May 6 Study release Max Roser publishes study indicating that the rate of poverty reduction around the world has slowed and that it may even stagnate.[59][60]
2019 May 23 Study release Hannah Ritchie publishes study presenting empirical evidence showing change in world population. For the first time, there are more people over 64 than children younger than 5, according to data.[61]
2019 June 11 Study release Max Roser publishes study showing empirical evidence of disminution of the trend of child mortality worldwide.[62]
2019 June Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser publish study analizing gender ratio.[63]

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References

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  2. "World Population Growth". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  3. "Famines". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  4. "Human Height". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  5. "Global Extreme Poverty". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  6. "Happiness and Life Satisfaction". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  7. "Literacy". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  8. "Ethnographic and Archaeological Evidence on Violent Deaths". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 20 June 2019. 
  9. Roser, Max; Nagdy, Mohamed; Ritchie, Hannah. "Terrorism". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  10. "Global Economic Inequality". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  11. Roser, Max; Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban. "Income Inequality". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
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  13. Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban; Beltekian, Diana; Roser, Max. "Trade and Globalization". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  14. "Eradication of Diseases". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  15. Roser, Max. "Fertility Rate". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  16. Roser, Max; Ritchie, Hannah. "Indoor Air Pollution". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  17. Ritchie, Hannah; Roser, Max. "Ozone Layer". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  18. "HIV / AIDS". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  19. Roser, Max; Ritchie, Hannah. "Cancer". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
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  21. "Suicide". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
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  23. "Human Progress Quantified – Edge answer by Steven Pinker". www.edge.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
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  28. Roser, Max; Ritchie, Hannah. "Burden of Disease". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  29. "Malaria is killing fewer people". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  30. "Fertility can decline extremely fast". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  31. Roser, Max. "Human Rights". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  32. "Corruption". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  33. Ritchie, Hannah; Roser, Max. "Air Pollution". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  34. Nagendra, Harini; DeFries, Ruth (2017-04-21). "Ecosystem management as a wicked problem". Science. 356 (6335): 265–270. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 28428392. doi:10.1126/science.aal1950. 
  35. Ritchie, Hannah; Roser, Max. "CO₂ and other Greenhouse Gas Emissions". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  36. "Diet Compositions". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  37. "Micronutrient Deficiency". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  38. "Meat and Seafood Production & Consumption". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  39. "Polio". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  40. [from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation "Our World in Data receives research grant to further work on presenting global development"] Check |url= value (help). inet.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
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  42. "Female Labor Supply". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  43. Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban; Roser, Max. "Economic inequality by gender". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  44. "Alcohol consumption". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  45. "Substance Use". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  46. "Mental Health". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
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  50. "Eerste 'tracker' die progressie op SDG's per land volgt | Fondsnieuws". www.fondsnieuws.nl. Retrieved 2019-03-10. 
  51. "17Goals – The SDG Tracker: Charts, graphs and data at your fingertips". Retrieved 2019-03-10. 
  52. "Urbanization". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  53. "Plastic Pollution". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  54. "YC-backed Our World in Data wants you to know what's changing about the planet". TechCrunch. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
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  56. Ritchie, Hannah. "Humans make up just 0.01% of Earth's life – what's the rest?". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  57. Ritchie, Hannah. "Oceans, land and deep subsurface: how is life distributed across environments?". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  58. Hasell, Joe. "Top incomes: more women, but still very male-dominated". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  59. Roser, Max. "s the world's poorest economies are stagnating half a billion are expected to be in extreme poverty in 2030". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
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  61. Ritchie, Hannah. "The world population is changing: For the first time there are more people over 64 than children younger than 5". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
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