Type of business | Non-profit affiliated with the University of Oxford |
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Headquarters | Oxford, England |
Owner | Global Change Data Lab |
Founder(s) | Max Roser |
Revenue | £1,784,746 (2022)[1] |
URL | ourworldindata |
Commercial | No |
Launched | May 2013[2] |
Current status | Active |
Our World in Data (OWID) is a scientific online publication that focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality.
It is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a registered charity in England and Wales,[3] and was founded by Max Roser, a social historian and development economist. The research team is based at the University of Oxford.[4] The organization is chaired by Hetan Shah.