Our World in Data

The use of statins in the population, measured in Defined Daily Doses per 1,000 people. This is compared to the reported annual death rate from cardiovascular diseases per 100,000 people, based on the underlying cause listed on death certificates.

Most high-income countries have reduced road deaths substantially over the past decades. But the United States has made much less progress than other rich countries, and has even gone backward since the mid-2010s.

Price change in consumer goods and services in the United States, measured as the percentage change since 1997. Data is based on the consumer price index (CPI) for national average urban consumer prices.

How is inequality measured, who produces key databases, and what does the data tell us?

In most places, power from new renewables is now cheaper than new fossil fuels.

Five years ago, almost no one in Latin America bought an electric car. Today, the situation is different: electric cars now make up a meaningful and fast-growing share of new car sales.

What can countries with high stunting rates today learn from Japan's experience of going from 70% to 5%?

Dozens of companies worldwide develop large AI models, but it can be difficult to get a sense of where the most-used ones tend to come from.

In the last two centuries, the price of lighting has decreased drastically.

In the last three decades, the world has made progress against extreme poverty faster than ever before. But unless the poorest economies start growing, this period of progress against the worst form of poverty is over.