This is the list of the topics for which we have gathered data and that we cover or plan to cover on OurWorldInData. Most topics will be covered in a specific entry of the same name, sometimes two topics will be covered in the same entry.
- World Population Growth
- Life Expectancy
- Child Mortality
- Infant Mortality
- Future Population Growth
- Fertility Rate
- Gender Ratio
- The Distribution of World Population
- Age Structure
- Mortality by Age
- Global Health (meta entry)
- Health Inequality
- Burden of Disease
- Causes of Death
- Infectious Diseases
- All infectious diseases not listed below
- Smallpox
- Malaria
- HIV / AIDS
- Tuberculosis
- Measles
- Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Diarrheal diseases
- Meningitis
- Respiratory diseases
- includes chronic (COPD, asthma) and infectious (pneumonia)
- Polio
- Vaccination
- Eradication of Diseases
- Contraception & Abortion
- Child health
- Maternal Health
- includes Maternal mortality
- Cancer
- Musculoskeletal disorders
- includes neck and back pain
- Disorders of the senses
- Hearing loss, visual impairment etc.
- Chronic Disease and Disabilities
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Neurological disorders
- Migraine, Alzheimer, Epilepsy, Parkinson, MS, ALS
- Skin diseases
- Unintentional injuries
- Falls, drownings, poisonings, fire, etc.
- Smoking
- Substance Use
- Alcohol Consumption
- Mental Health
- Suicide
- Blood and Organ Donation
- Medical Research & Innovation
- Doctors & Health Workers
- Hygiene
- Toxins
- Hunger and Undernourishment
- Food per Person
- Diet Compositions
- Micronutrient Deficiency
- Obesity & BMI
- Famines
- Meat and Seafood Production & Consumption
- Land Use and Yields in Agriculture
- Employment in Agriculture
- Fertilizers
- Food Prices & Expenditure
- Human Height
- Agricultural Production
- Food Waste
- Non-food Crops
- Soil
- Food Trade
- Agricultural Regulation & Policy
- Energy Production & Changing Energy Sources
- Fossil Fuels
- Renewables
- CO2 and other Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Energy Efficiency
- Emission Intensity
- Electricity
- Energy Prices
- Energy Trade
- Nuclear Energy
- Metals & Minerals
- Resource Curse & Trade
- CO2 and other Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Natural Disasters
- Air Pollution
- Indoor Air Pollution
- Water Use
- Ozone Layer
- Plastic Pollution
- Oil Spills
- Climate Change
- Waste
- Forests
- Land Use
- Biodiversity
- Water Quality in Rivers and Oceans
- Environmental Protection & Regulation
- Technology Adoption
- Technological Progress
- Research & Development
- Patents
- Productivity of Technologies
- Communication Technology
- Transport
- Transportation Technologies
- Transportation Infrastructure
- Transport safety and accidents
- Space Travel & Satellites
- Infrastructure Projects
- Technological Disasters
- Medical & Biotechnologies
- Economic Growth
- Incomes across the Distribution
- Global Extreme Poverty
- Poverty
- Multidimensional Poverty
- Poverty relative to poverty lines higher than the international poverty line
- Economic Crises
- Business Cycles
- Productivity
- Economic Complexity
- Wages
- Minimum Wage
- Prices
- including Inflation
- Labor & Capital Share
- (Factor Incomes)
- Income Inequality
- including Relative Poverty
- Wealth Inequality
- Consumption Inequality
- Income Mobility & Social Mobility
- Economic inequality by Gender
- Economic inequality by Race
- Economic inequality by Age
- Pensions
- Global Economic Inequality
- Financial Markets, Banks & Financial Institutions
- including stock market, bond market, and trading
- Interest Rates & Credit Market
- Including microcredit
- Risk and Insurance
- Including microinsurance
- Financial inclusion
- Including mobile money
- Corporate Profits
- Consumer Debt, Credit, & Saving
- Economic projections
- Predictions of Global Growth etc.
- Education in Economics, Finance, & Business
- Happiness and Life Satisfaction
- Human Development Index (HDI)
- Working Hours
- Child Labor
- Labor Force Participation and Employment
- Female Labor Supply
- Unemployment
- Labor Market Policies
- Slavery
- Forced Labor
- Job Satisfaction
- Work Conditions & Safety
- Workers’ Unions & Workers Rights
- Strikes
- Informal sector
- Start-Ups & Entrepreneurialism
- Unpaid Work
- Non-Profit Sector
- NGOs and the Third Sector
- Charitable giving
- Industrialization
- Capital Formation
- including Investment, % Capital per Worker
- Urbanization
- Light
- Housing
- Homelessness
- Quality of Life
- Consumption Baskets
- Availability of Goods
- Government Revenues
- Taxation
- Income Tax
- Redistribution
- Government Spending
- Social Spending
- Financing Healthcare
- Financing Education
- Corruption
- Public Sector Employment
- Monetary Policy
- Public Debt
- Economic Systems
- Comparisons between free market systems, regulated markets, communism etc.
- Views on capitalism and other systems
- Competition
- Economic Freedom
- Economic Regulation
- Business Environment
- Property Rights
- Intellectual Property
- Tourism
- International Trade
- Trade Barriers
- Including Tariffs, Financial Liberalization, etc.
- Trade blocs
- Economic Unions & Trade Agreements
- Balance of Payments
- including Current Account and Capital Account
- Foreign Direct Investment
- Intergovernmental Organizations & Diplomacy
- Foreign Aid
- Remittances
- Migration
- including Public Opinion on Immigration; Domestic Migration; and Education & Migration
- Human Trafficking
- Political Asylum & Refugees
- War and Peace
- including: Correlates & Drivers of Peace; Wars in Non-State Societies; Fortifications of Settlements; Consequences of Conflict; Costs of Wars
- Civil Wars
- Genocides
- Peacekeeping
- Terrorism
- Military Spending
- Military Personnel
- Weapons
- Arms Producers, Trade & Non-Proliferation (including Landmines and Other Weapons)
- Nuclear Weapons
- Forced Migration
- including movements of internally displaced people
- Political Regimes
- Colonialism
- Democracy
- including Support for democracy,
- Accountability & Transparency
- Political Rights
- Press Freedom
- Freedom of Speech
- Citizenship
- Trust in Political Regime & Institutions
- Women and Politics
- Franchise, Voting Rights & Electoral Systems
- Voter Turnout
- Political Engagement
- Political Protest
- Political Fragmentation
- Separation of State and Religion
- Quality of Institutions
- Political Stability
- including Coups and Violence against the Political System
- Legal Institutions and the Rule of Law
- Prisons
- Police
- Privacy & Surveillance
- State Violence
- Torture
- Capital Punishment
- Human Rights
- Violence against & Rights for Children
- Infanticide
- Rights of Minorities
- Women’s Rights
- LGBTQ Rights
- Religious Violence & Tolerance
- Genital Mutilation
- Animals Rights
- Treatment of the Elderly
- Homicides
- Ethnographic and Archaeological Evidence on Violent Deaths
- Guns
- Crime
- Trust
- Optimism & Pessimism
- Materialism
- including Post-Materialism
- Marriage & Relationships
- including teenage marriage
- Teenage Pregnancy
- Self Expression & Secular Rationalism
- Life Goals & Values
- Rational Orientation
- Values
- among others: Individualism; We-Feeling, Nationalism & Cosmopolitanism; Individualism vs Collectivism; Egalitarianism vs Elitism; Emotionalism vs Stoicism; Value Determinants; Views on Tradition and Modernization; Conservatism vs Liberalism; Freedom vs Egality; Long-Term Determinants of Values
- Personality Traits & Social Preferences
- Including risk aversion, patience, altruism, reciprocity
- Quantitative View of the World
- includes all aspects on whether people rely on data to understand the world
- Beauty, Fashion, & Style
- Art
- Cultural Contact
- including the transfer of culture
- Languages
- Foreign Language Skills
- Sports
- Religion
- Atheism
- Sex