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How often are people infected with malaria?
(This Data Insight was written by @_HannahRitchie.)
Malaria is an infectious disease that kills over 600,000 people a year. Most of them, children.
Its high death toll is at least partly explained by the fact that there are so many
Drowning is a common cause of death among children — the world has made progress, but more can be done.
(This Data Insight was written by @EOrtizOspina.)
More than 100,000 children under the age of 15 died from drowning in 2023. I found this statistic staggering when I first
Meat preferences vary a lot across different countries.
America’s most popular type of meat is chicken. In Argentina, it’s beef. And in Japan, it’s seafood.
There are large differences in the popularity of meat types across the world.
In the chart, you can see the share of
How does the World Bank classify countries by income?
Researchers and policymakers often need to compare countries by income, which means having clear criteria for who counts as "rich" or "poor".
One widely used approach is the World Bank’s (WB) income classification system,
