Illustration by The New York Times. Photograph by Getty Images. By Max Roser Graphics by Sara Chodosh Mr. Roser is the founder of Our World in Data and a professor at the University of Oxford’s ...

ONE just launched a new report with this shocking fact: at least one trillion dollars is siphoned out of poor countries EACH year, robbing governments of valuable resources that could be used to fund ...

We are at a critical juncture today in the fight against poverty. Despite decades of hard-won development progress, a world free of poverty remains out of sight. Ten years ago, the outlook appeared ...

The world is not on track to meet its goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030. In fact, global progress to reduce extreme poverty “has grinded to a halt” over the past few years. We‘re in the middle of ...

Last month, the United Nations issued a warning in its report “Gender Snapshot 2023,” predicting that should current trends continue, more than 340 million women and girls “will live in extreme ...

Prevalence of unaffordability and number of people unable to afford each diet Ratio of each diet cost to observed national average food expenditures Ratio of each diet cost to the food component of ...

The rock group U2 has sold some 175 million records globally, but I get that they might not be everybody’s cup of Irish tea. Maybe you don’t like their post-punk, anthemic music style. Maybe you think ...

Asian Americans are often portrayed as educationally and financially successful when compared with other racial or ethnic groups. However, Asian origin groups in the United States vary widely in their ...