What is the most unequal country in South America? It depends on what metric you look at

One way to measure income inequality is to look at the share of all income that goes to the top income earners. The chart plots this for all seven South American countries with comparable 2022 pre-tax income estimates in the World Inequality Database.

Deforestation is no longer inevitable

In the past, forests around the world were cut down on a massive scale. We lost some of the world’s richest ecosystems.

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The Unbearable Anthropocentrism of Our World in Data

How billionaire elites help fund an Oxford statistics lab that makes the destruction of Earth look just great. Roughly a decade ago, a

How Billionaire Elites Help Fund An Oxford Statistics Lab That Makes The Destruction Of Earth Look Just Great| Countercurrents

Roughly a decade ago, a 30-year-old economic statistician at Oxford University named Max Roser set out to transform the way we see

Smoking: How large of a global problem is it? And how can we make progress against it?

Every year, around eight million people die prematurely as a result of smoking. But there are things we can do to prevent this.

Net-zero: it’s not just where you end up, but how you get there that matters

Delaying emissions cuts makes climate change worse, even if countries reach net-zero in 2050.

GitHub - asjadnaqvi/stata-treemap: A Stata package for tree maps

A Stata package for tree maps. Contribute to asjadnaqvi/stata-treemap development by creating an account on GitHub.