China has implemented a one-child policy since 1978. Every child is the support and hope of every Chinese family. Lost children are common in china, and fortunately the situation is improving...

New York State of Incarceration focuses on trends in jail population in the state of New York. While New York City jail population has dropped by more than half over the last 20 years, population...

Refugee Flow gathers data from multiple reliable sources to construct a compelling account on how persons become refugees. This project examines one of the direct fundamental causes of the global...

In February we released a project Our World in Data had been working on: SDG-Tracker.org, the first (and only, to date) resource where you can track our progress towards the United Nations...

Climate change and global warming is suddenly very real when you take a look at this interactive map that brings together all the Earth’s natural disasters since year 2000. Flooding is a number one...

Vulnerable communities are bracing for an undercount in 2020. It’s a familiar story that traces back to the Articles of Confederation.

Trafficking of girls for sexual exploitation from Nigeria to Europe is one of the most difficult streams to fight. Italy is among the main destinations for this business. The phenomenon, however,...

The so-called refugee crisis puts the EU to the test and gives an impetus to extreme political currents. But how many refugees are we talking about? Where do they come from? We elaborated a...

This comic wants to make visible the exodus of Zainab and her family who, like another 11 million people, have been forced to leave their home since the war in Syria began in 2011. This...

This scroller piece invites users not just to see but also to feel the severity of income inequality in the US. With 1 pixel representing 1 dollar, the amount of scrolling required to earn what the...

This visualization project comissioned by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) shows flows of refugees and other persons of concern over time using an interactive StreamGraph. Clicking on a...

Funding Trends is a free and interactive web app visualising data to present key trends on donations from UK grantmakers and a dedicated dashboard for each funder. It uses a variety of...

A beautiful way to visualise which funders are supporting the growth of user-led organisations.

This page lists media reports, collected by Google News, about hate crimes and bias incidents. The “keywords” column contains names and places found in the news reports in the “articles” column....

In Iran, at least 28 prisoners held on politically motivated charges have died in state custody due to beatings, denial of medical care or gross negligence on the part of state authorities since...

Exodus is an Information-visualization that attempts to uncover the causalities behind the movement of refugees who have migrated from their homes to new lands, from the top 11 countries with a...

The experiences of female sex workers are widely misrepresented and misunderstood. This three-part series invites viewers to consider the experiences of these women including, 1) Risk factors that...

Despite the fact that our world is more free than ever before in history, there remain some 45.8 million people living in a state of modern slavery. This visualization analyzes the problem of...

The project “Wall of Silence” reflects on the systemic conditions that allowed for the sexual abuse of 265 young gymnasts at the hands of their physician, Larry Nassar. While media coverage has...

Comprehensive review of over 1,100 killings by police in 2017.

Violence Info is a collection of current, published scientific information on interpersonal violence. It provides information on the prevalence of violence, its consequences, risk factors,...

My visualization is showing survey results for the MyWorld survey looking at people’s perception on the successful (or not) achievement of sustainable development goals. As a part of the UN SDG...

Migration Trail follows the journeys of two fictional characters: David, from Nigeria and Sarah, from Syria. Their stories are told via maps, data visualisation and social media, in real time over...

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled to neighboring Bangladesh since violence erupted in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. The exodus was sparked by a fierce military response...

The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018 presents maps, charts, and stories related to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. It discusses trends, comparisons, and measurement issues...

Up to 79,000 Mexican migrants has been deported from the US back to Mexico. This view shows each record graphically to gain a better understanding of the data. Who they are, born city, skills,...

360Giving has launched a visualization challenge to answer questions to help funders to maximize their impact on the charitable causes they support. Such questions intend to give a better...

Modern slavery effects 21 million victims on any given day. Exploited Hopes and Dreams in Modern Slavery explores the story of two victims in Switzerland and brings to light how traffickers prey on...

Guardian Australia’s Deaths inside investigation revealed serious systemic failings in Australia's justice system, and prompted widespread calls for action from all sides of politics. Our...

We developed a series of video/motion graphics for UNITAID, an international organisation that invests in innovations to prevent, diagnose and treat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria more quickly,...