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		The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better (ourworldindata.org)
		1 point by pelario 9 months ago \| past
		The limits of our personal experience and the value of statistics (ourworldindata.org)
		12 points by alphabetatango 9 months ago \| past
		How does the World Bank classify countries by income? (ourworldindata.org)
		2 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago \| past
		There's over half billion mobile money accounts in the world, mostly in Africa (ourworldindata.org)
		1 point by alphabetatango 9 months ago \| past
		There are now more than 500M mobile money accounts in the world,mostly in Africa (ourworldindata.org)
		3 points by sien 9 months ago \| past
		Measles leaves children vulnerable to other diseases for years (ourworldindata.org)
		9 points by alphabetatango 9 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Most of the recent increase in natural disasters is due to improved reporting (ourworldindata.org)
		5 points by raffael_de 9 months ago \| past
		Most of increase in natural disasters late 20th cty is due to improved reporting (ourworldindata.org)
		8 points by mpweiher 9 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Nce a leading killer, tuberculosis is now rare in rich countries (ourworldindata.org)
		2 points by kamaraju 9 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		2B people don't have safe drinking water: what does this mean for them? (ourworldindata.org)
		99 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago \| past \| 89 comments
		Money sent home by international migrants is ~3x as much as global foreign aid (ourworldindata.org)
		3 points by therabbithole 10 months ago \| past
		Measles leaves children vulnerable to other diseases for years (ourworldindata.org)
		6 points by sohkamyung 10 months ago \| past \| 3 comments
		Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable (ourworldindata.org)
		307 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago \| past \| 92 comments
		Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable (ourworldindata.org)
		3 points by dionysou 10 months ago \| past
		Where in the world are babies at the lowest risk of dying? (ourworldindata.org)
		57 points by kamaraju 10 months ago \| past \| 83 comments
		Measles vaccines save lives each year (ourworldindata.org)
		13 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago \| past
		Young Americans spend much more time alone than they did fifteen years ago (ourworldindata.org)
		6 points by therabbithole 10 months ago \| past
		Children in rich countries are much less likely to die than a few decades ago (ourworldindata.org)
		3 points by kamaraju 10 months ago \| past
		How many species are there? (ourworldindata.org)
		3 points by thunderbong 11 months ago \| past
		Measles vaccines save lives each year (ourworldindata.org)
		3 points by ljahier 11 months ago \| past
		The length of software tasks AI systems can do has been increasing quickly (ourworldindata.org)
		1 point by elsewhen 11 months ago \| past
		[flagged] Less meat is nearly always better than sustainable meat (ourworldindata.org)
		25 points by sohkamyung 11 months ago \| past \| 60 comments
		What is foreign aid? How "Official Development Assistance" is measured (ourworldindata.org)
		1 point by kamaraju 11 months ago \| past
		Key Charts on Internet (ourworldindata.org)
		2 points by andrewstetsenko 11 months ago \| past
		Most food is transported by boat so food miles are a small % of carbon footprint (ourworldindata.org)
		2 points by therabbithole 11 months ago \| past
		How old are you compared to the rest of the world? (ourworldindata.org)
		2 points by therabbithole 12 months ago \| past
		How effective and safe are measles vaccines? (ourworldindata.org)
		5 points by salonium_ 12 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		How effective and safe are measles vaccines? (ourworldindata.org)
		5 points by sohkamyung 12 months ago \| past \| 3 comments
		How effective and safe are measles vaccines? Data from large meta-analyses (ourworldindata.org)
		2 points by therabbithole 12 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		What does it mean for a technology to follow Wright's Law? (ourworldindata.org)
		30 points by tosh on April 12, 2025 \| past \| 1 comment
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