How often do people in high-burden areas get malaria? Studies suggest that many children can experience five or more malaria infections a year.
Most beef production in Brazil is to meet domestic rather than international demand.
How elections spread, voting rights expanded, and political competition developed around the world over the last two centuries.
Falling fertility rates have created a unique scenario in human history: many countries are experiencing structural population decline.
According to a UN report published last year, there are 138 million children in child labor. In this article, we look at what this estimate exactly captures.
The Energy Institute no longer uses the substitution method to estimate primary energy. Here’s why that matters for our charts on energy.
Agriculture has been the main driver of deforestation, but this has been concentrated in only a few commodities: mostly beef, palm oil, soy, and forestry products.
Learn how inequality is measured, who produces key databases, and what the data tells us.
Data centers consume around 1.5% of global electricity, but demand is very geographically concentrated.
Explore how populations are distributed across settlement types, which cities are growing fastest, what living conditions in urban areas look like, and much more.