This infographic compares the cost of living to purchase power in each state. There are countries, like India, where prices are low and purchasing power is well above average. One explanation here...
By the end of 2022, the number of refugees globally stood at 35.3 million, an increase of more than eight million from the year before, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for...
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...
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...
Clean water is often thought of as the driver of conflict. In certain situations, water is the victim; in others, it is a tool for cooperation. Yet its largest impact remains in the role it plays...
When you readily have access to a resource as foundational as food, it is easy to overlook the regions that do not have the same luxury. This visualization highlights the progress society has made...
We are currently in a cost of living crisis in the UK with an increasing dependency on food banks. Food banks in the UK are also reliant on donation from the public, however with more than 35M...
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...
This data visualization highlights the 643 venues across New York City where residents can access free safer sex products, based on data from the NYC Condom Availability Program.
This is an illustrated explanation of the deportation and forced transfer of Ukrainian citizens to Russia by Russian forces.
Karina Zaiets, herself displaced from Ukraine, and the USA TODAY...
In the military veterans in the United States face many challenges after separating from active duty. As a veteran of the Iraq war I have personally faced many of those challenges in my own...
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,...
This work demonstrates the distribution of wealth in the United States. A county-level household income dataset is used for the visualization. One county is represented as a circle, grouped by...
For most of the 12 million people living with disabilities in Iran, basic needs such as healthcare, education and transportation are inaccessible. One of the main reasons why is because Iran has...
During the civic-military dictatorship of Argentina, political prisoners were held in navy ships and stadiums, in office buildings and police stations. Military bases expropriated houses and...
In the end of 2022 people in Iran started to protest against the Islamist regime. Data shows how protests have sprung up around the country and where the government has unleashed the most brutality...
Sexual violence in Australia is pervasive but rarely prosecuted, much less punished. Invisible Crime is an attempt to give a count to these crimes, a texture to the experiences of those who survive...
How can acts of violence be visualized in an appropriate manner? Jews, Jewish institutions, and Jewish-owned firms and stores in the German Reich were subjected to increasing violence long before...
A series of maps explain how President Assad’s military – backed by Russian warplanes – have been waging a harsh campaign against an array of rebel factions in Syria’s bloody conflict.
The...
The 360Giving Trend Engine application allows users to quickly explore the UK grant making landscape. Users can browse who has funded which themes and track the location of grants recipients over...
A data visualization on the magnitude, frequency and spatial distribution of violence against civilians and internal displacement in Burkina Faso at a time when both indicators are on a rising...
The Force Report, a 16-month investigation by NJ Advance Media, found New Jersey’s system for tracking police force is broken. It collected five years of police force data to show readers how often...
This piece is designed to celebrate the hard work, the dedication, and the collaboration around the world to end polio. We are so close to achieving polio eradication, and we can not give up now.
China is accused of incarcerating hundreds of thousands of Muslims in detention camps that are rising from the desert sands in Xinjiang. A forensic analysis of satellite data covering 39 of these...
In 2017, over two million traffic stops occurred in Illinois. Each time an Illinois resident was pulled over, the enforcement officer was required to record the details of the traffic stop,...
August marked the happening of Pride in Amsterdam! During this event, the worldwide LGBTQ+ community, as well as all their supporters, came together in Amsterdam for 9 days to celebrate diversity,...
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...
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...
The set of 31 voronoi maps show water points monitored over time by governments and development partners for indiviual countries.
The data is collected by the Water Point Data Exchange (WPDx)...
Across the relationship that exists between the brain and human emotions, there is a spectrum that goes beyond the tangible; To explore it, we present this project with the aim of breaking down the...