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The budget to keep temperatures below 1.5°C is less than a decade of current emissions. For 2°C, it’s less than three decades.

There are many ways to measure countries’ contributions to climate change. What do they tell us?

Hundreds of millions of animals get killed for meat every day.

How many animals are slaughtered every year? How do welfare standards vary across the world? Explore data and research on animal welfare.

Our page on artificial intelligence has been enriched with key insights and 23 new charts.

To find ways to save lives, it’s essential to know what people are dying from. Explore global data and research on causes of death.

How can individuals reduce their emissions from transport?

Explore key insights, 4 articles, and 25 charts on terrorism and how it has changed over time.

There are different approaches to measuring terrorism. Here is the approach of the Global Terrorism Database, a leading source of terrorism data.

Risk factors are important to understand because they can help us identify how to save lives. How do researchers estimate their impact?

In many countries, when people die, the cause of their death is officially registered in their country’s national system. How is this determined?

The effects of risk factors can be calculated in different ways. How are they calculated and interpreted?

Deaths caused by each risk factor can’t be added up. By understanding why, we will have a better understanding of how many lives can be saved with each intervention.

Explore global data on food affordability, and expenditures on food across the world.

The world is huge; to get a clear idea of what our world is like, we have to rely on carefully collected, well documented statistics.

Explore data on how tourism has changed over time, and how it differs across the world.

Explore data on homicides rates across the world, and how these have changed over time.

With our SDG Tracker you can track global and country-by-country progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Explore global data on the history of economic growth, and differences across the world today.

Explore global and country data on population growth, demography, and how this is changing.