How many animals get slaughtered every day?
Hundreds of millions of animals get killed for meat every day.
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We published a new topic page on animal welfare
How many animals are slaughtered every year? How do welfare standards vary across the world? Explore data and research on animal welfare.We updated our topic page on artificial intelligence
Our page on artificial intelligence has been enriched with key insights and 23 new charts.We published a new topic page on causes of death
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.Which form of transport has the smallest carbon footprint?
How can individuals reduce their emissions from transport?Terrorism affects some countries much more than others
Explore key insights, 4 articles, and 25 charts on terrorism and how it has changed over time.The Global Terrorism Database: how do researchers measure terrorism?
There are different approaches to measuring terrorism. Here is the approach of the Global Terrorism Database, a leading source of terrorism data.How do researchers estimate the death toll caused by each risk factor, whether it’s smoking, obesity, or air pollution?
Risk factors are important to understand because they can help us identify how to save lives. How do researchers estimate their impact?How are causes of death registered around the world?
In many countries, when people die, the cause of their death is officially registered in their country’s national system. How is this determined?Risk ratios, odds ratios, risk differences: How do researchers calculate the risk from a risk factor?
The effects of risk factors can be calculated in different ways. How are they calculated and interpreted?Why isn’t it possible to sum up the death toll from different risk factors?
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.We just published a new topic page on food prices
Explore global data on food affordability, and expenditures on food across the world.The limits of our personal experience and the value of statistics
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.We published a new topic page on tourism
Explore data on how tourism has changed over time, and how it differs across the world.We published a new topic page on homicides
Explore data on homicides rates across the world, and how these have changed over time.We launched our new Sustainable Development Goals Tracker
With our SDG Tracker you can track global and country-by-country progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).We published a new topic page on economic growth
Explore global data on the history of economic growth, and differences across the world today.The world has passed “peak child”
Explore global and country data on population growth, demography, and how this is changing.How are incomes adjusted for inflation?
Adjusting incomes for inflation is crucial if we want to learn how standards of living are changing. How is this adjustment done?We published a new topic page on economic inequality
Explore global data on economic inequality, and how this is changing over time.How has income inequality within countries evolved over the past century?
While the steep rise of inequality in the United States is well-known, long-run data on the incomes of the richest shows countries have followed a variety of trajectories.