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| Since 2011 || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] launches and starts publishing entries.
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| 2011–2014 || {{w|Max Roser}} starts working on [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]], researching on {{w|economic history}} and {{w|development economics}}, and collecting lots of empirical data.<ref name="Funding request for Our World In Data"/>
 
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| Since 2014 || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] starts gaining notoriety and coverage. In 2017 and 2018, it is cited in books by distinguished authors. By 2019 [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] becomes part of {{w|Y Copmbinator}}.
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| 2014 || <code>ourworldindata.org</code> launches. Since then, [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] would expand into a small team of researchers and web developers, and their reach and audience would grow.<ref name="Our World in Data is at Y Combinator"/>
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| 2015 || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] launches website <code>sdg-tracker.org</code> to track progress towards the {{w|Sustainable Development Goals}}.
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| 2019 || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] becomes part of {{w|Y Combinator}}. About a million people visit <code>ourworldindata.org</code> each month, mainly though organic search traffic.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our World in Data (YC W19 Nonprofit) Is Hiring a Front End Developer |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19358997 |website=news.ycombinator.com |accessdate=26 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 2011 || || || {{w|Our World in Data}} is launched by {{w|Max Roser}}, a German-born economist at the {{w|University of Oxford}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our World In Data |url=https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/on-the-web/our-world-in-data |website=philanthropynewsdigest.org |accessdate=17 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2011 || || Prelude || {{w|Max Roser}}, a German-born economist at the {{w|University of Oxford}}, starts working on [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]]. Later, he would explain his project was the answer to his dissapointment and anger with a media and education that were not informing him and others about fundamental trends that are changing the world.<ref name="Why are we working on Our World In Data?">{{cite web |title=Why are we working on Our World In Data? |url=https://ourworldindata.org/motivation |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=26 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Our World In Data |url=https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/on-the-web/our-world-in-data |website=philanthropynewsdigest.org |accessdate=17 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2013 || || Study release || Study analyzing world {{w|population growth}} is published.<ref>{{cite web |title=World Population Growth |url=https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2013 || || Study release || Studies focusing on the history of {{w|famine}} and famine mortality over time are published.<ref>{{cite web |title=Famines |url=https://ourworldindata.org/famines |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 2013 || || Study release || {{w|Max Roser}}, Hannah Ritchie and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina publish study analizing world {{w|population growth}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=World Population Growth |url=https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2013 || || Study release || Studies analyzing {{w|human height}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Human Height |url=https://ourworldindata.org/human-height |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, {{w|extreme poverty}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Global Extreme Poverty |url=https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, happiness and life satisfaction,<ref>{{cite web |title=Happiness and Life Satisfaction |url=https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref> {{w|literacy}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Literacy |url=https://ourworldindata.org/literacy |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, and ethnographic and archaeological evidence on violent deaths are published.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ethnographic and Archaeological Evidence on Violent Deaths |url=https://ourworldindata.org/ethnographic-and-archaeological-evidence-on-violent-deaths |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=20 June 2019}}</ref>  
 
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| 2013 || || Study release || Joe Hasell and Max Roser publish study focusing on the history of {{w|famine}} and famine mortality over time.<ref>{{cite web |title=Famines |url=https://ourworldindata.org/famines |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2013 || July || Study release || Study analyzing {{w|terrorism}} is published.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roser |first1=Max |last2=Nagdy |first2=Mohamed |last3=Ritchie |first3=Hannah |title=Terrorism |url=https://ourworldindata.org/terrorism |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 2013 || || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] releases new entries analizing {{w|human height}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Human Height |url=https://ourworldindata.org/human-height |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, {{w|extreme poverty}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Global Extreme Poverty |url=https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, happiness and life satisfaction,<ref>{{cite web |title=Happiness and Life Satisfaction |url=https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, {{w|literacy}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Literacy |url=https://ourworldindata.org/literacy |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, and ethnographic and archaeological evidence on violent deaths.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ethnographic and Archaeological Evidence on Violent Deaths |url=https://ourworldindata.org/ethnographic-and-archaeological-evidence-on-violent-deaths |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=20 June 2019}}</ref>  
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| 2013 || December || Study release || Studies analyzing global {{w|economic inequality}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Global Economic Inequality |url=https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, and {{w|income inequality}} are published.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roser |first1=Max |last2=Ortiz-Ospina |first2=Esteban |title=Income Inequality |url=https://ourworldindata.org/income-inequality |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 2013 || July || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analizing {{w|terrorism}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roser |first1=Max |last2=Nagdy |first2=Mohamed |last3=Ritchie |first3=Hannah |title=Terrorism |url=https://ourworldindata.org/terrorism |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2014 || || Study release || Studies analyzing data and research on {{w|international trade}} patterns,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ortiz-Ospina |first1=Esteban |last2=Beltekian |first2=Diana |last3=Roser |first3=Max |title=Trade and Globalization |url=https://ourworldindata.org/trade-and-globalization |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref> as well as {{w|fertility rate}} are published.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roser |first1=Max |title=Fertility Rate |url=https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 2013 || December || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes studies analizing global {{w|economic inequality}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Global Economic Inequality |url=https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, and {{w|income inequality}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roser |first1=Max |last2=Ortiz-Ospina |first2=Esteban |title=Income Inequality |url=https://ourworldindata.org/income-inequality |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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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 || || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes studies analizing data and research on {{w|international trade}} patterns,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ortiz-Ospina |first1=Esteban |last2=Beltekian |first2=Diana |last3=Roser |first3=Max |title=Trade and Globalization |url=https://ourworldindata.org/trade-and-globalization |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref> as well as {{w|fertility rate}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roser |first1=Max |title=Fertility Rate |url=https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2014 || June || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analyzing the {{w|eradication of infectious diseases}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Eradication of Diseases |url=https://ourworldindata.org/eradication-of-diseases |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 2014 || June || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analizing the {{w|eradication of infectious diseases}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Eradication of Diseases |url=https://ourworldindata.org/eradication-of-diseases |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2014 || November || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes studies analyzing data on environmental issues including {{w|indoor air pollution}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roser |first1=Max |last2=Ritchie |first2=Hannah |title=Indoor Air Pollution |url=https://ourworldindata.org/indoor-air-pollution |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref> and {{w|ozone layer}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ritchie |first1=Hannah |last2=Roser |first2=Max |title=Ozone Layer |url=https://ourworldindata.org/ozone-layer |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref> as well as data on health issues like {{w|HIV/AIDS}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=HIV / AIDS |url=https://ourworldindata.org/hiv-aids |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 2014 || November || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes studies analizing data on environmental issues including {{w|indoor air pollution}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roser |first1=Max |last2=Ritchie |first2=Hannah |title=Indoor Air Pollution |url=https://ourworldindata.org/indoor-air-pollution |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref> and {{w|ozone layer}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ritchie |first1=Hannah |last2=Roser |first2=Max |title=Ozone Layer |url=https://ourworldindata.org/ozone-layer |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref> as well as data on health issues like {{w|HIV/AIDS}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=HIV / AIDS |url=https://ourworldindata.org/hiv-aids |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 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"/>
 
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| 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"/>
 
| 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 || July || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analizing {{w|cancer}} as a cause of death worldwide,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roser |first1=Max |last2=Ritchie |first2=Hannah |title=Cancer |url=https://ourworldindata.org/cancer |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref> as well as {{w|vaccination}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Vaccination |url=https://ourworldindata.org/vaccination |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2015 || July || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analyzing {{w|cancer}} as a cause of death worldwide,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roser |first1=Max |last2=Ritchie |first2=Hannah |title=Cancer |url=https://ourworldindata.org/cancer |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref> as well as {{w|vaccination}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Vaccination |url=https://ourworldindata.org/vaccination |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 2015 || August || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analizing {{w|suicide}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Suicide |url=https://ourworldindata.org/suicide |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2015 || August || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analyzing {{w|suicide}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Suicide |url=https://ourworldindata.org/suicide |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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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 || 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>
 
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| 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"<ref name="About">{{cite web |title=About |url=https://ourworldindata.org/about |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=17 June 2019}}</ref> "The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are targets for global development adopted in September 2015, set to be achieved by 2030."<ref name="Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals">{{cite web |title=Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals |url=https://sdg-tracker.org/ |website=sdg-tracker.org |accessdate=17 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2015 || September || Website launch || The 193 countries of the {{w|United Nations General Assembly}} adopt the United Nations {{w|Sustainable Development Goals}} (SDGs), a set of targets for global development to be achieved by 2030. [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] subsequently builds the site <code>sdg-tracker.org</code> to track progress towards them.<ref name="About">{{cite web |title=About |url=https://ourworldindata.org/about |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=17 June 2019}}</ref><ref name="Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals">{{cite web |title=Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals |url=https://sdg-tracker.org/ |website=sdg-tracker.org |accessdate=17 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 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"/>  
 
| 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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| 2015 || November || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analizing the burden of {{w|malaria}} worldwide.<ref>{{cite web |title=Malaria |url=https://ourworldindata.org/malaria |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2015 || November || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analyzing the burden of {{w|malaria}} worldwide.<ref>{{cite web |title=Malaria |url=https://ourworldindata.org/malaria |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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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>
 
| 2016–2017 || || 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>
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| 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>
 
| 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 || January || Study release ||  [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analizing the global [[w:Disease burden|burden of disease]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roser |first1=Max |last2=Ritchie |first2=Hannah |title=Burden of Disease |url=https://ourworldindata.org/burden-of-disease |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2016 || January || Study release ||  [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analyzing the global [[w:Disease burden|burden of disease]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roser |first1=Max |last2=Ritchie |first2=Hannah |title=Burden of Disease |url=https://ourworldindata.org/burden-of-disease |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 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 || 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>
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| 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>
 
| 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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| 2016 || June 12 || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analizing {{w|human rights}} across the world.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roser |first1=Max |title=Human Rights |url=https://ourworldindata.org/human-rights |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2016 || June 12 || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analyzing {{w|human rights}} across the world.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roser |first1=Max |title=Human Rights |url=https://ourworldindata.org/human-rights |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 2016 || October 10 || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analizing {{w|corruption}} across the world.<ref>{{cite web |title=Corruption |url=https://ourworldindata.org/corruption |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2016 || October 10 || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analyzing {{w|corruption}} across the world.<ref>{{cite web |title=Corruption |url=https://ourworldindata.org/corruption |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 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"/>
 
| 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 || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analizing ambient outdoor {{w|air pollution}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ritchie |first1=Hannah |last2=Roser |first2=Max |title=Air Pollution |url=https://ourworldindata.org/air-pollution |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>   
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| 2017 || April || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analyzing ambient outdoor {{w|air pollution}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ritchie |first1=Hannah |last2=Roser |first2=Max |title=Air Pollution |url=https://ourworldindata.org/air-pollution |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>   
 
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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 || 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>
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| 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>
 
| 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 || August || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes studies analizing diet composition,<ref>{{cite web |title=Diet Compositions |url=https://ourworldindata.org/diet-compositions |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, {{w|micronutrient deficiency}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Micronutrient Deficiency |url=https://ourworldindata.org/micronutrient-deficiency |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, and meat and seafood production and consumption,<ref>{{cite web |title=Meat and Seafood Production & Consumption |url=https://ourworldindata.org/meat-and-seafood-production-consumption |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>  
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| 2017 || August || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes studies analyzing diet composition,<ref>{{cite web |title=Diet Compositions |url=https://ourworldindata.org/diet-compositions |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, {{w|micronutrient deficiency}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Micronutrient Deficiency |url=https://ourworldindata.org/micronutrient-deficiency |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, and meat and seafood production and consumption,<ref>{{cite web |title=Meat and Seafood Production & Consumption |url=https://ourworldindata.org/meat-and-seafood-production-consumption |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</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>  
 
| 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 || November 9 || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analizing the burden of {{w|poliomyelitis}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Polio |url=https://ourworldindata.org/polio |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || November 9 || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analyzing the burden of {{w|poliomyelitis}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Polio |url=https://ourworldindata.org/polio |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 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"/>
 
| 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"/>
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| 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"/>   
 
| 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 || February || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analizing changes in [[w:Cause of death|causes of death]] across the world, as global population increases, life expectancy rises, and living standards improve.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ritchie |first1=Hannah |last2=Roser |first2=Max |title=Causes of Death |url=https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || February || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analyzing changes in [[w:Cause of death|causes of death]] across the world, as global population increases, life expectancy rises, and living standards improve.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ritchie |first1=Hannah |last2=Roser |first2=Max |title=Causes of Death |url=https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 2018 || March || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analizing female labor supply.<ref>{{cite web |title=Female Labor Supply |url=https://ourworldindata.org/female-labor-supply |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || March || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analyzing female labor supply.<ref>{{cite web |title=Female Labor Supply |url=https://ourworldindata.org/female-labor-supply |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 2018 || March || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analizing {{w|gender pay gap}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ortiz-Ospina |first1=Esteban |last2=Roser |first2=Max |title=Economic inequality by gender |url=https://ourworldindata.org/economic-inequality-by-gender |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || March || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analyzing {{w|gender pay gap}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ortiz-Ospina |first1=Esteban |last2=Roser |first2=Max |title=Economic inequality by gender |url=https://ourworldindata.org/economic-inequality-by-gender |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 2018 || April || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes studies analizing {{w|alcohol consumption}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Alcohol consumption |url=https://ourworldindata.org/alcohol-consumption |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, substance use<ref>{{cite web |title=Substance Use |url=https://ourworldindata.org/substance-use |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, and {{w|mental health}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mental Health |url=https://ourworldindata.org/mental-health |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || April || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes studies analyzing {{w|alcohol consumption}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Alcohol consumption |url=https://ourworldindata.org/alcohol-consumption |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, substance use<ref>{{cite web |title=Substance Use |url=https://ourworldindata.org/substance-use |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, and {{w|mental health}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mental Health |url=https://ourworldindata.org/mental-health |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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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"/>  
 
| 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 || April 21 || Recognition || {{w|Bill Gates}} refers to {{w|Max Roser}} as "one his favorite economists".<ref>{{cite tweet |user=BillGates |number=987721112049070080 |date=21 April 2018 |title=Data nerds like me will enjoy this @planetmoney episode featuring one of my favorite economists, @MaxCRoser. }}</ref>
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| 2018 || April 21 || Recognition || {{w|Bill Gates}} refers to {{w|Max Roser}} as "one his favorite economists".<ref>{{cite web |title=Our World In Data |url=https://howlingpixel.com/i-en/Our_World_In_Data#cite_note-2 |website=howlingpixel.com |accessdate=26 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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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>
 
| 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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| 2018 || September || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes studies analizing trend in {{w|urbanization}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Urbanization |url=https://ourworldindata.org/urbanization |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, as well as {{w|plastic pollution}} in the environment.<ref>{{cite web |title=Plastic Pollution |url=https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || September || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes studies analyzing trend in {{w|urbanization}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Urbanization |url=https://ourworldindata.org/urbanization |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>, as well as {{w|plastic pollution}} in the environment.<ref>{{cite web |title=Plastic Pollution |url=https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</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><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/owid-at-ycombinator|title=Our World in Data is at Y Combinator|website=Our World in Data|access-date=19 June 2019}}</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>
 
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| 2019 || April 24 || Study release || {{w|Our World In Data}} releases study providing an overview of Earth's {{w|biomass}}, how it is distributed between taxonomic group of organisms, and the environments within which they live.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ritchie |first1=Hannah |title=Humans make up just 0.01% of Earth's life – what's the rest? |url=https://ourworldindata.org/life-on-earth |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=17 June 2019}}</ref>   
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| 2019 || March 18 || Funding || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] raises US$ 150,000 Seed from {{w|Y Combinator}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our World In Data |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/our-world-in-data#section-overview |website=crunchbase.com |accessdate=26 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Seed Round - Our World In Data |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/our-world-in-data-seed--cc99bea7#section-overview |website=crunchbase.com |accessdate=26 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || April 24 || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] releases study providing an overview of Earth's {{w|biomass}}, how it is distributed between taxonomic group of organisms, and the environments within which they live.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ritchie |first1=Hannah |title=Humans make up just 0.01% of Earth's life – what's the rest? |url=https://ourworldindata.org/life-on-earth |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=17 June 2019}}</ref>   
 
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| 2019 || April 26 || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study on global [[W:Biomass (ecology)|biomass]] showing how life spans across the planet's  three high-level habitat environments.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ritchie |first1=Hannah |title=Oceans, land and deep subsurface: how is life distributed across environments? |url=https://ourworldindata.org/life-by-environment |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=17 June 2019}}</ref>  
 
| 2019 || April 26 || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study on global [[W:Biomass (ecology)|biomass]] showing how life spans across the planet's  three high-level habitat environments.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ritchie |first1=Hannah |title=Oceans, land and deep subsurface: how is life distributed across environments? |url=https://ourworldindata.org/life-by-environment |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=17 June 2019}}</ref>  
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| 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>
 
| 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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| 2019 || June || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analizing [[w:Sex ratio|gender ratio]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Gender Ratio |url=https://ourworldindata.org/gender-ratio |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || June || Study release || [[w:Our World in Data|OWID]] publishes study analyzing [[w:Sex ratio|gender ratio]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Gender Ratio |url=https://ourworldindata.org/gender-ratio |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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==See also==
 
==See also==
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==External links==
 
==External links==

Revision as of 10:32, 27 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
2011–2014 Max Roser starts working on OWID, researching on economic history and development economics, and collecting lots of empirical data.[1]
2014 ourworldindata.org launches. Since then, OWID would expand into a small team of researchers and web developers, and their reach and audience would grow.[2]
2015 OWID launches website sdg-tracker.org to track progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
2019 OWID becomes part of Y Combinator. About a million people visit ourworldindata.org each month, mainly though organic search traffic.[3]

Full timeline

Year Month and date Event type Details
2011 Prelude Max Roser, a German-born economist at the University of Oxford, starts working on OWID. Later, he would explain his project was the answer to his dissapointment and anger with a media and education that were not informing him and others about fundamental trends that are changing the world.[4][5]
2013 Study release Study analyzing world population growth is published.[6]
2013 Study release Studies focusing on the history of famine and famine mortality over time are published.[7]
2013 Study release Studies analyzing human height[8], extreme poverty[9], happiness and life satisfaction,[10] literacy[11], and ethnographic and archaeological evidence on violent deaths are published.[12]
2013 July Study release Study analyzing terrorism is published.[13]
2013 December Study release Studies analyzing global economic inequality[14], and income inequality are published.[15]
2014 Study release Studies analyzing data and research on international trade patterns,[16] as well as fertility rate are published.[17]
2014 June Website launch Max Roser launches ourworldindata.org.[2][1]
2014 June Study release OWID publishes study analyzing the eradication of infectious diseases.[18]
2014 November Study release OWID publishes studies analyzing data on environmental issues including indoor air pollution[19] and ozone layer.[20] as well as data on health issues like HIV/AIDS.[21]
2014 December Funding The Nuffield Foundation awards a grant to expand OWID over the course of 2015.[1]
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.[22]
2015 July Study release OWID publishes study analyzing cancer as a cause of death worldwide,[23] as well as vaccination.[24]
2015 August Study release OWID publishes study analyzing suicide.[25]
2015 August 23 Recognition Canadian-American popular science author Steven Pinker places Our World in Data on his list of his personal “cultural highlights”[26] and explains in his article on 'the most interesting recent scientific news' why he considers Our World in Data so very important.[27]
2015 September Website launch The 193 countries of the United Nations General Assembly adopt the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of targets for global development to be achieved by 2030. OWID subsequently builds the site sdg-tracker.org to track progress towards them.[28][29]
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.[30]
2015 November Study release OWID publishes study analyzing the burden of malaria worldwide.[31]
2016–2017 Team Jaiden Mispy joins OWID as web developer during this period.[22]
2016 Team Esteban Ortiz-Ospina joins research team.[32]
2016 January Study release OWID publishes study analyzing the global burden of disease.[33]
2016 April 25 Study release OWID publishes data showing decline of malaria deaths by world region.[34]
2016 May 20 Study release OWID publishes study indicating the decline of fertility around the globe.[35]
2016 June 12 Study release OWID publishes study analyzing human rights across the world.[36]
2016 October 10 Study release OWID publishes study analyzing corruption across the world.[37]
2017 Team Hannah Ritchie, Joe Hasell, Diana Beltekian, Marco Molteni, and Sophie Ochmann join OWID research team.[32][22]
2017 April Study release OWID publishes study analyzing ambient outdoor air pollution.[38]
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.[39]
2017 May Study release OWID publishes study showing CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions across the globe.[40]
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.[30][41]
2017 August Study release OWID publishes studies analyzing diet composition,[42], micronutrient deficiency[43], and meat and seafood production and consumption,[44]
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.[30][45]
2017 November 9 Study release OWID publishes study analyzing the burden of poliomyelitis.[46]
2017 Coverage OWID is cited in An Introduction to Global Health Delivery by Joia S. Mukherje.[30]
2018 Team Daniel Gavrilov joins Our World in Data as web developer and Sonya Bhatt joins as administrative and finance officer.[32]
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.[47]
2018 February 13 Coverage OWID is cited in Stephen Pinker's Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.[30]
2018 February Study release OWID publishes study analyzing changes in causes of death across the world, as global population increases, life expectancy rises, and living standards improve.[48]
2018 March Study release OWID publishes study analyzing female labor supply.[49]
2018 March Study release OWID publishes study analyzing gender pay gap.[50]
2018 April Study release OWID publishes studies analyzing alcohol consumption[51], substance use[52], and mental health.[53]
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.[30]
2018 April 21 Recognition Bill Gates refers to Max Roser as "one his favorite economists".[54]
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.[29][55][56] The publication has global coverage and tracks whether the world is making progress towards the SDGs.[57] It aims to make the data on the 17 goals available and understandable to a wide audience.[58]
2018 September Study release OWID publishes studies analyzing trend in urbanization[59], as well as plastic pollution in the environment.[60]
2019 January Our World in Data announces they're part of Y Combinator.[2] It is one of only 3 nonprofit organizations in Y Combinator's Winter 2019 cohort.[61]
2019 March 18 Funding OWID raises US$ 150,000 Seed from Y Combinator.[62][63]
2019 April 24 Study release OWID 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.[64]
2019 April 26 Study release OWID publishes study on global biomass showing how life spans across the planet's three high-level habitat environments.[65]
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.[66]
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.[67][68]
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.[69]
2019 June 11 Study release OWID publishes study showing empirical evidence of disminution of the trend of child mortality worldwide.[70]
2019 June Study release OWID publishes study analyzing gender ratio.[71]

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References

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  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Our World in Data is at Y Combinator". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 17 June 2019. 
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  8. "Human Height". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  9. "Global Extreme Poverty". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  10. "Happiness and Life Satisfaction". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  11. "Literacy". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  12. "Ethnographic and Archaeological Evidence on Violent Deaths". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 20 June 2019. 
  13. Roser, Max; Nagdy, Mohamed; Ritchie, Hannah. "Terrorism". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  14. "Global Economic Inequality". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  15. Roser, Max; Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban. "Income Inequality". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  16. Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban; Beltekian, Diana; Roser, Max. "Trade and Globalization". ourworldindata.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
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