ourworldindata

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by ourworldindata 7y ago
Yes, that is right the population growth rate started declining more than half a century ago. In 1962 the growth rate peaked at 2.2% and has halved since then: https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth#the-globa...
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by ourworldindata 7y ago
Hi rlue! This is largely due to China's population dynamics. Here I've made a chart that shows the number of births (and deaths) in China over the last 69 years: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/births-and-d
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by ourworldindata 8y ago
We were thinking of building "a news feed of research about the topics [you] care about". What do you have in mind? Do you have an example? We'd be curious what it is that you would expect there. Thanks!
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by ourworldindata 8y ago
Our main goal is what you say. I am happy to hear that. Thank you! It is exactly what we try to do.
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by ourworldindata 8y ago
Thank you very much!! Let us know if you are missing something to make it your go to site.
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by ourworldindata 8y ago
There should be many more projects like ours so I'm happy to hear that! I'd really like it if we had as much reporting on the slow long-term changes as we have media that focusses on single events in the last 24 hours.
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by ourworldindata 8y ago
I didn't think of that. Sounds like a good idea!
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by ourworldindata 8y ago
Hi betocmn, I'm happy to hear that! Yes, took quite a few years to piece everything together. We have a long list of topics that we want to work on https://ourworldindata.org/about/list-of-all-data-entries (And fu
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by ourworldindata 8y ago
A community discussion forum to discuss research would be great. I'd be interested in hearing what you would suggest? We have discussed whether something like StackOverflow, but for global development, would be possible. I think we are