Mental illness is a better predictor of misery than poverty is.

The separation of immigrant families dominated headlines in 2018. But as we uncovered, a different family separation crisis has been unfolding in plain sight for years. In a multi-year...

This data visualization animation brings to life the extraordinary expansion of deportations managed by the EU's Coastal and Borders Agency, Frontex. It shows in a thought-provoking way the growing...

This chart illustrates U.S. Federal Government Outlays (discretionary and mandatory) from 1962 through 2023 forecasted as two animated pie charts.

Platts removes an element of confusion in the oil markets... S&P Global Platts has created the first ever interactive Periodic Table of Oil. It unravels the complexity of the $1.7 trillion...

Nearly two years since the shocking EU referendum vote, divisions have only hardened across Britain. Some people wished Brexit would happen faster. Some didn’t want it, but will get on with it...

The Jan. 14 sinking of the tanker Sanchi was the worst oil shipping disaster in decades. Thirty-two crew died in a tragedy that has tarnished the industry’s gradually improving safety record. Here...

Rohingya Muslims have been fleeing apartheid-like conditions in northwestern Myanmar for decades. A recent military operation drew allegations of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity and...

Right now, more than half the world is not connected to the internet, and almost 75% of Africa is offline. Why does this matter? For people living in the poorest parts of the world, access to the...

Almost half of Americans believe that immigrants make crime worse. But the data tells a different story. This visual piece examines the relationship between immigration and crime in American cities...

With the collapse of investment bank, Lehman Brothers, the 2008 Financial Crisis became full blown economic downturn which eventually led to the worst financial crisis since The Great Depression of...

Penguins dashboards shows the different species of Penguins, their locations and the information about each species. 82% of the species are from Antarctica.

4600: This is the number of Swiss citizens standing for one of the 200 seats in the National Council on 20 October. 2019. More than ever before. Age, gender, political attitude: these are their...

A random sample of 200,000 victims of the conflict

WDVP winner: This interactive visualization enables the exploration of the DNA of a good government. You can analyse and compare multiple indicators to investigate their influence on countries...

The World Poverty Clock is brought to you by World Data Lab in Vienna, Austria and its global network. It is based on a global standardized database on income which provides real-time projections...

Going back as far as 1983, the prices of two key commodities, oil and gold, have often moved in close correlation with one another, even as the Consumer Price Index rose steadily. However, in the...

When senator 'X' votes a 'Yea' or 'Nay' what are the chances that senator 'Y' would do the same? This tool allows you to find out the similarity in voting patterns of senators of the 115th Congress.

The findings, while limited, point in one direction: Gun control can save lives.

A tilegram map of the world showing which countries are the biggest spenders on public health, compared to Gross National Income. Each country is also measured on health indicators.

To create Paradise Papers, we used interactive graphics to illustrate complex concepts relating to secret, often convoluted tax machinations of some of the world’s most powerful people and...

Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. To date, the United States has provided Israel $134.7 billion (current, or noninflation-adjusted, dollars)...

How much debt has been racked up by governments? This stunning infographic shows each country's share of world debt, along with their debt-to-GDP ratio.

Donald Says is a press review for Donald Trump related news. This website analyzes 40+ U.S. news feeds and delivers an overview for up-to-date news trends. It shows the frequency of new articles,...

This is a searchable database of all of Trump's tweets in 2017. Each grid forming the image of Trump here represents a tweet. The tweets can be arranged in order of weekday & month.

Every year, humanity is leaking more and more plastic into the world's oceans. Plastic does not dissolve. Instead it is ground into smaller and smaller pieces at the micrometer and nanometer...

Access to adequate health care is crucial to social and economic development, as healthy human capital fosters productivity and economic growth. This scrollytelling interactive tracks global...

Water is a bare necessity to us humans, and with the population explosion and rampant industrialization all around the world, we stare down the imminent Day Zero. Water, as we know it, will no...

The economy, immigration and everything else.

"War Filings" shows the density of explosions on the Syrian territory from 2015 to 2017. The data, gathered in the Global Terrorism Database, are represented through the metaphor of ferromagnetic...