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Why join Our World in Data?

Research and data are crucial to making progress against the world's large problems and building a better future. At Our World in Data, we make research and data on the world’s largest problems accessible and understandable.

The problems the world faces are very diverse: global poverty, CO₂ emissions, child mortality, mental health, and many more. Our World in Data readers who are concerned about these problems should be able to rely on our compilation of research, databases, and visualizations to understand them clearly and learn how progress can be made against them.

All data on Our World in Data is available for download, all visualizations are Creative Commons licensed, and all tools are open source.

Join us if you are committed to helping us achieve this mission!

Impact

We reach a large audience (over 5 million visitors every month), and we rank within the top few results on Google Search for queries including “CO₂ emissions”, “population growth”, “global poverty”, “COVID-19 vaccinations”, and many others. Our readers include researchers, journalists, teachers, policymakers, students, and engineers looking for the data and research that enables them to do their work.

Our work is cited and referenced in hundreds of articles, reports, books, lectures, videos, and talks every year, including high-profile publications from academics and multilateral organizations such as the UN. In 2020, our rate of academic citations was above 15 per day, and citations in popular media were even more common.

During the pandemic, hundreds of media outlets cited our work daily, and all major international organizations rely on the data we collect. Dr. Anthony Fauci has used our charts to answer questions about the COVID-19 pandemic in the US Congress, and the White House has also used our work.

It is very motivating for us to work on this publication because we receive great feedback from readers. Many teachers and professors worldwide get in touch because they use our work as assigned reading or rely on our visualizations for their in-class presentations — high-school teacher Matt Cone wrote about it here. Professionals in international organizations, governments, and NGOs rely on our work regularly to understand the challenges ahead.

We have even heard from medics and psychologists who use our work to help their patients and give them a more fact-based, positive attitude towards the world — Dr Jill Gordon wrote about how she uses Our World in Data in her work here.

But we are far from achieving the impact we can have. Our main constraint is that we are a small team; this is why we are looking for new, talented colleagues to join us. We can do much more in all areas of our work — research, writing, web development, and high-impact collaborations. This is why we want to work with you.