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How is literacy measured?
An overview of how literacy is defined, and how estimates compare to other measures of educational achievement.International trade data: why doesn't it add up?
An overview of how international trade data is collected and processed, and why there are large differences between sources.What’s happening to life expectancy in Britain?
How is the world doing in its fight against vaccine preventable diseases?
Long-run trends in military spending and personnel: four key facts from new data
Do most countries devote resources to maintain armies even when they are not immersed in a critical conflict? How are military capabilities changing in the 21st century?Does population growth lead to hunger and famine?
Many countries with high population growth have recently managed to substantially decrease levels of hunger.Do famines curb population growth?
Famines and other large crises translate into very small changes in overall population trends, if at all.The missing economic measure: wealth
Gross domestic product (GDP) is increasingly seen as an incomplete measure of economic activity. Another measure gaining traction as a supplement to GDP is national wealth.Shrink emissions, not the economy
Decoupling emissions from the economy is possible.Why do far fewer people die in famines today?
How many people died in famines in history, and how has this evolved over time?Famine mortality over the long run
Famine mortality rates have fallen abruptly to much lower levels in recent decades compared to earlier periods.How and why should we study ‘economic complexity’?
The Economic Complexity Index offers insights into how diversified and sophisticated a country's export profile is. This matters for economic growth and development potential.What does a famine declaration declare?
There are specific criteria for determining if a food crisis should be considered a famine, yet how famines are discussed can still be unclear.How well do biological gender differences explain the gender pay gap?
Why is there a gender pay gap?
Key facts about the gender pay gap
How many people in the world die from cancer?
Learning for our Millennium? The changing face of education access, quality and uptake in Ethiopia
Child maltreatment and educational outcomes
A sense of units and scale for electrical energy production and consumption
How does the electricity output of different sources compare?