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What’s happening to life expectancy in Britain?
How common is alcohol and drug dependency across the world?
Global mental health: five key insights which emerge from the data
How is the world doing in its fight against vaccine preventable diseases?
Long-run trends in military spending and personnel: four key facts from new data
Does population growth lead to hunger and famine?
Do famines curb population growth?
The missing economic measure: Wealth
Shrink emissions, not the economy
Why do far fewer people die in famines today?
Famine mortality over the long run
How and why should we study ‘economic complexity’?
What does a famine declaration declare?
Introducing the Our World in Data ‘Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Tracker’
Measuring education: What data is available?
How well do biological gender differences explain the gender pay gap?
Why is there a gender pay gap?
Key facts about the gender pay gap
Is it fair to compare terrorism and disaster with other causes of death?
What do people die from?