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| 2017 || May || Study release || Hannah Ritchie and {{w|Max Roser}} publish infographic showing CO<sub>2</sub> and other greenhouse gas emissions across the globe.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ritchie |first1=Hannah |last2=Roser |first2=Max |title=CO₂ and other Greenhouse Gas Emissions |url=https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=17 June 2019}}</ref>

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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]
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"[2]
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"[3] "The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are targets for global development adopted in September 2015, set to be achieved by 2030."[4]
2015 August 23 Canadian-American popular science author Steven Pinker places Our World in Data on his list of his personal “cultural highlights”[5] and explains in his article on 'the most interesting recent scientific news' why he considers Our World in Data so very important.[6]
2016 April 25 Data release Max Roser publishes data showing decline of malaria deaths by world region.[7]
2016 May 20 Study release Max Roser publishes study indicating the decline of fertility around the globe.[8]
2017 May Study release Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser publish infographic showing CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions across the globe.[9]
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.[10]
2018 April 21 Recognition Bill Gates refers to Max Roser as "one his favorite economists".[11]
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.[4][12][13] The publication has global coverage and tracks whether the world is making progress towards the SDGs.[14] It aims to make the data on the 17 goals available and understandable to a wide audience.[15]
2019 January Our World in Data announces they're part of Y Combinator.[2]
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.[16]
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.[17]
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.[18]
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.[19][20]
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.[21]
2019 June 11 Study release Max Roser publishes infograph showing empirical evidence of disminution of the trend of child mortality worldwide.[22]

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References

  1. "Our World In Data". philanthropynewsdigest.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Our World in Data is at Y Combinator". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  3. "About". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals". sdg-tracker.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  5. Observer, Steven Pinker/the (2015-08-23). "On my radar: Steven Pinker's cultural highlights". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  6. "Human Progress Quantified – Edge answer by Steven Pinker". www.edge.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  7. "Malaria is killing fewer people". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  8. "Fertility can decline extremely fast". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  9. Ritchie, Hannah; Roser, Max. "CO₂ and other Greenhouse Gas Emissions". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  10. [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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  12. Ritchie, Roser, Mispy, Ortiz-Ospina. "Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals." SDG-Tracker.org, website (2018).
  13. Hub, IISD's SDG Knowledge. "SDG-Tracker.org Releases New Resources | News | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD". Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  14. "Eerste 'tracker' die progressie op SDG's per land volgt | Fondsnieuws". www.fondsnieuws.nl. Retrieved 2019-03-10. 
  15. "17Goals – The SDG Tracker: Charts, graphs and data at your fingertips". Retrieved 2019-03-10. 
  16. Ritchie, Hannah. "Humans make up just 0.01% of Earth's life – what's the rest?". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  17. Ritchie, Hannah. "Oceans, land and deep subsurface: how is life distributed across environments?". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  18. Hasell, Joe. "Top incomes: more women, but still very male-dominated". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  19. 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. 
  20. "Global Poverty Reduction Is Slowing–but There's a Solution". goodmenproject.com. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  21. 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. 
  22. Roser, Max. "Mortality in the past – around half died as children". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019.