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Revision as of 11:08, 26 June 2019

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

Big picture

Time period Development summary
2017–2018 OWID starts being cited in books by distinguished authors.
2019 OWID becomes part of Y Copmbinator.

Full timeline

Year Month and date Event type Details
2011 Our World in Data is launched by Max Roser, a German-born economist at the University of Oxford.[1]
2013 Study release Max Roser, Hannah Ritchie and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina publish study analizing world population growth.[2]
2013 Study release Joe Hasell and Max Roser publish study focusing on the history of famine and famine mortality over time.[3]
2013 Study release OWID releases new entries analizing human height[4], extreme poverty[5], happiness and life satisfaction,[6], literacy.[7], and ethnographic and archaeological evidence on violent deaths.[8]
2013 July Study release OWID publishes study analizing terrorism.[9]
2013 December Study release OWID publishes studies analizing global economic inequality[10], and income inequality.[11]
2014 Study release OWID publishes studies analizing data and research on international trade patterns,[12] as well as fertility rate.[13]
2014 June Study release OWID publishes study analizing the eradication of infectious diseases.[14]
2014 November Study release OWID publishes studies analizing data on environmental issues including indoor air pollution[15] and ozone layer.[16] as well as data on health issues like HIV/AIDS.[17]
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.[18]
2015 July Study release OWID publishes study analizing cancer as a cause of death worldwide,[19] as well as vaccination.[20]
2015 August Study release OWID publishes study analizing suicide.[21]
2015 August 23 Recognition 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 September 23 Coverage Material from OWID is used for Don’t Panic, How to End Poverty, a documentary film with Hans Rosling and produced by Wingspan Productions for This World on BBC Two.[26]
2015 November Study release OWID publishes study analizing the burden of malaria worldwide.[27]
2016–2017 Team Jaiden Mispy joins OWID as web developer during this period.[18]
2016 Team Esteban Ortiz-Ospina joins research team.[28]
2016 January Study release OWID publishes study analizing the global burden of disease.[29]
2016 April 25 Study release OWID publishes data showing decline of malaria deaths by world region.[30]
2016 May 20 Study release OWID publishes study indicating the decline of fertility around the globe.[31]
2016 June 12 Study release OWID publishes study analizing human rights across the world.[32]
2016 October 10 Study release OWID publishes study analizing corruption across the world.[33]
2017 Team Hannah Ritchie, Joe Hasell, Diana Beltekian, Marco Molteni, and Sophie Ochmann join OWID research team.[28][18]
2017 April Study release OWID publishes study analizing ambient outdoor air pollution.[34]
2017 April 21 Coverage Our World in Data is cited in academic paper Ecosystem management as a wicked problem, by Ruth DeFries and Harini Nagendra; published in 'Science.[35]
2017 May Study release OWID publishes study showing CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions across the globe.[36]
2017 June 20 Coverage OWID is cited in academic paper Future of fundamental discovery in US biomedical research by Michael Levitt and Jonathan M. Levitt.[26][37]
2017 August Study release OWID publishes studies analizing diet composition,[38], micronutrient deficiency[39], and meat and seafood production and consumption,[40]
2017 September 11 Coverage 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.[26][41]
2017 November 9 Study release OWID publishes study analizing the burden of poliomyelitis.[42]
2017 Coverage OWID is cited in An Introduction to Global Health Delivery by Joia S. Mukherje.[26]
2018 Team Daniel Gavrilov joins Our World in Data as web developer and Sonya Bhatt joins as administrative and finance officer.[28]
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.[43]
2018 February 13 Coverage OWID is cited in Stephen Pinker's Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.[26]
2018 February Study release OWID publishes study analizing changes in causes of death across the world, as global population increases, life expectancy rises, and living standards improve.[44]
2018 March Study release OWID publishes study analizing female labor supply.[45]
2018 March Study release OWID publishes study analizing gender pay gap.[46]
2018 April Study release OWID publishes studies analizing alcohol consumption[47], substance use[48], and mental health.[49]
2018 April Coverage OWID is cited in Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund.[26]
2018 April 21 Recognition Bill Gates refers to Max Roser as "one his favorite economists".[50]
2018 June 28 Coverage 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][51][52] The publication has global coverage and tracks whether the world is making progress towards the SDGs.[53] It aims to make the data on the 17 goals available and understandable to a wide audience.[54]
2018 September Study release OWID publishes studies analizing trend in urbanization[55], as well as plastic pollution in the environment.[56]
2019 January Our World in Data announces they're part of Y Combinator.[57] It is one of only 3 nonprofit organizations in Y Combinator's Winter 2019 cohort.[58][59]
2019 April 24 Study release Our World In Data releases study providing an overview of Earth's biomass, how it is distributed between taxonomic group of organisms, and the environments within which they live.[60]
2019 April 26 Study release OWID publishes study on global biomass showing how life spans across the planet's three high-level habitat environments.[61]
2019 April 29 Study release OWID 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.[62]
2019 May 6 Study release OWID publishes study indicating that the rate of poverty reduction around the world has slowed and that it may even stagnate.[63][64]
2019 May 23 Study release OWID 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.[65]
2019 June 11 Study release OWID publishes study showing empirical evidence of disminution of the trend of child mortality worldwide.[66]
2019 June Study release OWID publishes study analizing gender ratio.[67]

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See also

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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. 
  12. Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban; Beltekian, Diana; Roser, Max. "Trade and Globalization". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  13. Roser, Max. "Fertility Rate". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  14. "Eradication of Diseases". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  15. Roser, Max; Ritchie, Hannah. "Indoor Air Pollution". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  16. Ritchie, Hannah; Roser, Max. "Ozone Layer". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  17. "HIV / AIDS". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
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  19. Roser, Max; Ritchie, Hannah. "Cancer". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  20. "Vaccination". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  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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  31. "Fertility can decline extremely fast". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  32. Roser, Max. "Human Rights". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  33. "Corruption". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  34. Ritchie, Hannah; Roser, Max. "Air Pollution". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  35. 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. 
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  37. Levitt, Michael; Levitt, Jonathan M. "Future of fundamental discovery in US biomedical research". doi:10.1073/pnas.1609996114. 
  38. "Diet Compositions". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  39. "Micronutrient Deficiency". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  40. "Meat and Seafood Production & Consumption". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  41. Henderson, J Vernon; Squires, Tim; Storeygard, Adam; Weil, David. "The Global Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History, and the Role of Trade". doi:10.1093/qje/qjx030. Retrieved 20 June 2019. 
  42. "Polio". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
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  45. "Female Labor Supply". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  46. Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban; Roser, Max. "Economic inequality by gender". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  47. "Alcohol consumption". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  48. "Substance Use". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  49. "Mental Health". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
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  56. "Plastic Pollution". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
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  61. Ritchie, Hannah. "Oceans, land and deep subsurface: how is life distributed across environments?". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
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  63. 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. 
  64. "Global Poverty Reduction Is Slowing–but There's a Solution". goodmenproject.com. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
  65. 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. 
  66. Roser, Max. "Mortality in the past – around half died as children". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
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