Today's fact from #OurWorldInData: “Global sales of combustion engine cars peaked in 2017”

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/global-sales-of-combustion-engine-cars-have-peaked

#cars #electrification #ClimateChange #diesel #petrol #PeakOil #transport

#GoodNews taken from Hank Green's newsletter:
Cereal yields in Ghana have increased much faster over the past decade

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/cereal-yields-in-ghana-have-increased-much-faster-over-the-past-decade
#OurWorldInData

Today's fact from the #RSS feed of #OurWorldInData: Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world at the beginning of the 20th century.

I might use this in the future when responding to people who claim that “things can't get any worse”.

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/argentina-was-one-of-the-richest-countries-in-the-world-at-the-beginning-of-the-20th-century

#Argentina #Economy #GDP #History

Three ways to look at cancer mortality.

"The same underlying data gives us three different pictures. The absolute number of deaths is up; the crude rate is up slightly; the age-standardized rate is down. None of these are inaccurate, but they answer different questions."

More information on how to look at this graph at [ https://ourworldindata.org/age-standardization ]

#OurWorldInData #Cancer #Mortality #Rates #Statistics

go go go la descente!

#co2 #ourworldindata

For #TidyTuesday I plotted the sheep population and census data from #OUrWorldinData. They better hope the sheep don't rise up. #rstats #dataviz

p.s. I could not get a @ symbol in my caption without some special text (!?)

Code:https://codeberg.org/svanhorne/TidyTuesday/src/branch/main/2026/NewZealand.r

This is a fun little visualiser by Hannah Ritchie of #OurWorldInData of how the energy consumption of various daily activities like leaving a lightbulb on, using a gas oven or watching TV compare.

https://hannahritchie.github.io/energy-use-comparisons

https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/does-that-use-a-lot-of

#EnergyEfficiency