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...

Information can be beautiful... why not stunningly beautiful? I wanted to mesmerise and captivate hearts as well as minds, inviting people to watch and interact and uncover - and trying to breathe...

What remains when all is lost? Under the blankets tells the story of seven different homeless individuals — in Italy 43.595 — forced to live in degraded and painful conditions. The higher 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...

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...

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...

"Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first...

Few people care about the situation in Yemen, and when it’s covered in the news it’s all about the war. But what is life really like for the people in Yemen? The Yemen Polling Center is the only...

No other shooting in recent years comes close to the carnage of Las Vegas.

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...

In Brazil, couples that want to adopt children need to go through an extensive examination and backround check. After they are accepted into the adoption proccess, they also need to fill a form in...

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...

There are still many people in the world who experience hunger and have gone without food for days. The problem of hunger transcends beyond developing nations as it brings us to another topic of...

Homelessness is not acceptable. Not in 2018, and not in one of the richest countries in the world: the UK. To raise public awareness of the issue and inspire people to engage with the solution,...

Today in the world there are 541 million young workers, accounting for over 15 per cent of the global labour force. What does it mean to be young workers in 2018? With 313 million workers...

The Healthy Marketplace Index (HMI) reveals local trends in a large but lesser-known sector of the U.S. health care system – employer-based insurance, which covers half the population. HMI creates...

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...

Kiron Open Higher Education is a non-profit organization supporting access to higher education for refugees and asylum seekers. I am visualizing the situation and profile of refugees in Germany who...

How far does imaging the city in planning schools represent contextual urban realities? As a previous student and current practitioner of planning, I noticed two conflicting realities: the city as...

Visualisation of Russian traffic deaths.

Water scarcity continues to be one of the world's largest problems. Without access to clean water, residents are at constant risk of disease.

Worshipped by a billion Hindus and a water source for 400 million, the Indian government is battling to save “Mother Ganga”. This project follows the river from its source to emptying into the...

An interactive web app presenting key funding trends and a dedicated dashboard for each funder.

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...

The result of a three-month investigation, 3,121 desperate journeys breaks down the real cost of the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy. The piece aims to tell the story of just one week...

Between 1973 and 2013, $367 billion of development aid has been distributed worldwide. Who has provided aid, and who has received it? This deceptively simple graphic shows the flows of global...

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...

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

Our story, “Killings of Black Men by Whites are Far More Likely to be Ruled ‘Justifiable,’” tackles the complex issue of killings that do not result in any form of prosecution. “Justifiable...

A visual enquiry into the rape epidemic in India and the systematic dysfunction of the Indian justice system.