Why do we need to know about progress if we are concerned about the world’s large problems? - Our World in Data

Why have we made it our mission to publish the “research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems”?

Home Poverty Why have we made it our mission to publish “research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems”? At the heart of it is a simple truth. When we look around us, it is clear that the world faces many very large problems: Every year, 300,000 women die from pregnancy-related causes; this means that on any average day, 830 mothers die. ( source ) The majority of the world — 56% — lives on less than $10 per day. And about 10% live in ‘extreme poverty,’ on less than $3 per day. ( source ) The world deforested 47 million hectares of forest in the last decade; that’s an

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