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== History ==
Roser began his work on the project in 2011,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/history-of-our-world-in-data|title=History of Our World in Data|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2019-10-29}}</ref> adding a research team at the [[University of Oxford]] later on. In the first years, Roser developed the publication together with inequality researcher Sir [[Tony Atkinson]].<ref name=":0" /> [[Hannah Ritchie]] joined in 2017 and became Head of Research.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Vaughan|first=Adam|title=Hannah Ritchie interview: The woman giving covid-19 data to the world|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2278673-hannah-ritchie-interview-the-woman-giving-covid-19-data-to-the-world/|access-date=2021-07-21|website=New Scientist|language=en-US}}</ref> [[Edouard Mathieu]] joined in 2020 and became Head of Data.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Edouard Mathieu: An Open Data Approach to Solving the World's Problems|url=https://ten7.com/podcast/episode/edouard-mathieu-open-data-approach-solving-worlds-problems|access-date=2021-10-05|website=TEN7|language=en-US}}</ref> The organization began the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] with six staff members, and grew to 20 by late 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wiblin|first=Robert|title=Max Roser on building the world's first great source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data|url=https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/max-roser-our-world-in-data/|website=80,000 Hours|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/team|title=Our World in Data - Team|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2021-10-05}}</ref>
=== 2011 to 2019 ===
In 2019, Our World in Data won the [[International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences|Lovie Award]], an European web award<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lovieawards.eu/features/2019-winners-announced/|title=Meet The 2019 Lovie Awards Special Achievement Winners|date=2019-10-07|website=The Lovie Awards|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-02}}</ref>, and was one of three [[nonprofit organization]]s in [[Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator's]] Winter 2019 cohort.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/our-world-in-data/|title=YC-backed Our World in Data wants you to know what's changing about the planet|website=TechCrunch|access-date=2019-01-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/owid-at-ycombinator|title=Our World in Data is at Y Combinator|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2019-01-26}}</ref> .▼
Roser began his work on the project in 2011,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/history-of-our-world-in-data|title=History of Our World in Data|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2019-10-29}}</ref> adding a research team at the [[University of Oxford]] later on. In the first years, Roser developed the publication together with inequality researcher Sir [[Tony Atkinson]].<ref name=":0" />
SinceBeginning in 2020, Our World in Data hasadded an emphasis beenon publishing global data and research on the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]: ▼[[Hannah Ritchie]] joined Our World in Data in 2017 and became Head of Research.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Vaughan|first=Adam|title=Hannah Ritchie interview: The woman giving covid-19 data to the world|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2278673-hannah-ritchie-interview-the-woman-giving-covid-19-data-to-the-world/|access-date=2021-07-21|website=New Scientist|language=en-US}}</ref>
* *Newspapers relyThey created and maintained a worldwide database on [[COVID-19 vaccine|vaccinations for COVID-19]], which was used as the source for data frompublished Ourby the [[World inHealth Organization]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=WHO COVID-19 Explorer|url=https://worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io/covid/|access-date=2021-04-29|website=worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io}}</ref>, researchers and other international organizations<ref>{{Cite web|title=COVID-19 Task Force Dashboard|url=https://data.covid19taskforce.com/data|access-date=2022-01-20|website=data.covid19taskforce.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ledford|first=Heidi|date=2021-06-04|title=Six months of COVID vaccines: what 1.7 billion doses have taught scientists|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01505-x|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=594|issue=7862|pages=164–167|doi=10.1038/d41586-021-01505-x|pmid=34089016|bibcode=2021Natur.594..164L |s2cid=235347317}}</ref>, journals<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Mathieu|first1=Edouard|last2=Ritchie|first2=Hannah|last3=Ortiz-Ospina|first3=Esteban|last4=Roser|first4=Max|last5=Hasell|first5=Joe|last6=Appel|first6=Cameron|last7=Giattino|first7=Charlie|last8=Rodés-Guirao|first8=Lucas|date=2021-05-10|title=A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01122-8|journal=Nature Human Behaviour|language=en|volume=5|issue=7|pages=947–953|doi=10.1038/s41562-021-01122-8|issn=2397-3374|pmid=33972767|s2cid=234362504}}</ref>, and numerous newspapers<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Visual|first1=F. T.|last2=team|first2=Data inJournalism|title=Covid-19 theirvaccine reportingtracker: the global race to vaccinate|url=https://ig. ft.com/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker/|access-date=2022-01-20|website=ig.ft.com|language=en-gb}}</ref>''<ref>{{Cite news|last=Holder|first=Josh|date=2021-01-29|title=Tracking Coronavirus Vaccinations Around the World|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html|access-date=2022-01-20|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Holder|first=Josh|title=Tracking Coronavirus Vaccinations Around the World|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html|access-date=2021-04-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Neville|first=Sarah|date=2022-01-19|title=Pandemic exposes a world of healthcare inequalities|work=Financial Times|url=https://www.ft.com/content/258588c0-93c8-4978-8e73-5eb28d43f12a|access-date=2022-01-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title='Our World in Data': ¿El mundo va a mejor o a peor?|url=https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/pensamiento/espejos-de-hoy/our-world-in-data-el-mundo-va-mejor-peor_510594_102.html|access-date=2021-07-21|website=Crónica Global|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Covid-19 vaccine tracker: View vaccinations by country|url=https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/health/global-covid-vaccinations/|access-date=2021-07-21|website=CNN|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Millán|first=Víctor|date=2021-04-05|title=3100 gráficos de casi 300 temas distintos: así es Our World in Data, la web imprescindible para entender lo que ha pasado y está pasando|url=https://www.xataka.com/investigacion/our-world-in-data-web-imprescindible-para-entender-que-ha-pasado-esta-pasando-2020-2021|access-date=2021-07-21|website=Xataka|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Max Roser on building the world's best source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data|url=https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/max-roser-our-world-in-data/|access-date=2021-07-21|website=80,000 Hours|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-01-06|title=Most governments are not yet on track to hit their vaccine roll-out targets|newspaper=The Economist|url=https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/01/06/most-governments-are-not-yet-on-track-to-hit-their-vaccine-roll-out-targets|access-date=2021-07-21|issn=0013-0613}}</ref> .▼
** OurSimilarly, Worldthe inteam Data'sbuilt and maintained a global dataset on [[COVID-19 testing]] databasewhich was publishedused inby ''[[Scientificthe DataUnited Nations, the White House, the World Health Organization, and epidemiologists and researchers<ref>{{Cite (journal )| Scientificlast=Subbaraman|first=Nidhi|date=2020-03-23|title=Coronavirus Data]]'tests: researchers chase new diagnostics to fight the pandemic|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00827-6|journal=Nature|language=en|doi=10.1038/d41586-020-00827-6|pmid=32205872|s2cid=214630708}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Yan|first=Holly|title=Trump says the US leads the world in testing. But it' s far behind in testing per capita, studies show|url=https://www. cnn.com/2020/05/12/health/us-coronavirus-testing-per-capita/index.html|access-date=2020-07-08|website=CNN|date=13 May 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Hasell|first1=Joe|last2=Mathieu|first2=Edouard|last3=Beltekian|first3=Diana|last4=Macdonald|first4=Bobbie|last5=Giattino|first5=Charlie|last6=Ortiz-Ospina|first6=Esteban|last7=Roser|first7=Max|last8=Ritchie|first8=Hannah|date=2020-10-08|title=A cross-country database of COVID-19 testing|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00688-8.epdf?sharing_token=DhVSer4fwMaMn21PlrIsjNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PTrf0-71MWJ-TVId3NUEQUJCLb8G87BoUdAuW8R1_iiTGud8PFK9p5JC67ZMJAXpsgS8kKXhMu3mB2ZZLC5N3NtSS3xfkaXYRTu-Sslh-oREBAjsFqLo8llDsJyPwH6bM=|journal=[[Scientific Data (journal)|Scientific Data]]|language=en|volume=7|issue=1|page=345|doi=10.1038/s41597-020-00688-8|issn=2052-4463|pmc=7545176|pmid=33033256|doi-access=free}}</ref> , and also published data such as hospitalizations and computations of excess deaths.<ref>{{Cite web|title=covid-19-data/public/data at master · owid/covid-19-data|url=https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data|access-date=2022-01-20|website=GitHub|language=en}}</ref> ▼▲Our World in Data was one of three [[nonprofit organization]]s in [[Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator's]] Winter 2019 cohort.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/our-world-in-data/|title=YC-backed Our World in Data wants you to know what's changing about the planet|website=TechCrunch|access-date=2019-01-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/owid-at-ycombinator|title=Our World in Data is at Y Combinator|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2019-01-26}}</ref>
In 2019, Our World in Data won the [[International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences|Lovie Award]], an European web award, "in recognition of their outstanding use of data and the internet to supply the general public with understandable data-driven research – the kind necessary to invoke social, economic, and environmental change."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lovieawards.eu/features/2019-winners-announced/|title=Meet The 2019 Lovie Awards Special Achievement Winners|date=2019-10-07|website=The Lovie Awards|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-02}}</ref>
=== 2020 to present ===
▲Since 2020, Our World in Data has been publishing global data and research on the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]:
* Our World in Data created and maintained the worldwide database on [[COVID-19 vaccine|vaccinations for COVID-19]].
** Our World in Data's vaccination dataset is the source of the data published by the [[World Health Organization]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=WHO COVID-19 Explorer|url=https://worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io/covid/|access-date=2021-04-29|website=worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io}}</ref>
** Daily updated dashboard by the ''[[Financial Times]]'' and ''[[The New York Times]]'' present data compiled by Our World in Data''.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Visual|first1=F. T.|last2=team|first2=Data Journalism|title=Covid-19 vaccine tracker: the global race to vaccinate|url=https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker/|access-date=2022-01-20|website=ig.ft.com|language=en-gb}}</ref>''<ref>{{Cite news|last=Holder|first=Josh|date=2021-01-29|title=Tracking Coronavirus Vaccinations Around the World|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html|access-date=2022-01-20|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
▲**Newspapers rely on data from Our World in Data in their reporting.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Holder|first=Josh|title=Tracking Coronavirus Vaccinations Around the World|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html|access-date=2021-04-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Neville|first=Sarah|date=2022-01-19|title=Pandemic exposes a world of healthcare inequalities|work=Financial Times|url=https://www.ft.com/content/258588c0-93c8-4978-8e73-5eb28d43f12a|access-date=2022-01-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title='Our World in Data': ¿El mundo va a mejor o a peor?|url=https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/pensamiento/espejos-de-hoy/our-world-in-data-el-mundo-va-mejor-peor_510594_102.html|access-date=2021-07-21|website=Crónica Global|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Covid-19 vaccine tracker: View vaccinations by country|url=https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/health/global-covid-vaccinations/|access-date=2021-07-21|website=CNN|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Millán|first=Víctor|date=2021-04-05|title=3100 gráficos de casi 300 temas distintos: así es Our World in Data, la web imprescindible para entender lo que ha pasado y está pasando|url=https://www.xataka.com/investigacion/our-world-in-data-web-imprescindible-para-entender-que-ha-pasado-esta-pasando-2020-2021|access-date=2021-07-21|website=Xataka|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Max Roser on building the world's best source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data|url=https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/max-roser-our-world-in-data/|access-date=2021-07-21|website=80,000 Hours|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-01-06|title=Most governments are not yet on track to hit their vaccine roll-out targets|newspaper=The Economist|url=https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/01/06/most-governments-are-not-yet-on-track-to-hit-their-vaccine-roll-out-targets|access-date=2021-07-21|issn=0013-0613}}</ref>
**Researchers and other international organizations also relied on this same database.<ref>{{Cite web|title=COVID-19 Task Force Dashboard|url=https://data.covid19taskforce.com/data|access-date=2022-01-20|website=data.covid19taskforce.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ledford|first=Heidi|date=2021-06-04|title=Six months of COVID vaccines: what 1.7 billion doses have taught scientists|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01505-x|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=594|issue=7862|pages=164–167|doi=10.1038/d41586-021-01505-x|pmid=34089016|bibcode=2021Natur.594..164L |s2cid=235347317}}</ref>
** Our World in Data's COVID-19 vaccination database was published in the journal ''[[Nature Human Behaviour]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Mathieu|first1=Edouard|last2=Ritchie|first2=Hannah|last3=Ortiz-Ospina|first3=Esteban|last4=Roser|first4=Max|last5=Hasell|first5=Joe|last6=Appel|first6=Cameron|last7=Giattino|first7=Charlie|last8=Rodés-Guirao|first8=Lucas|date=2021-05-10|title=A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01122-8|journal=Nature Human Behaviour|language=en|volume=5|issue=7|pages=947–953|doi=10.1038/s41562-021-01122-8|issn=2397-3374|pmid=33972767|s2cid=234362504}}</ref>
* The team built and maintained the global dataset on [[COVID-19 testing]].
** This data was used by the United Nations, the White House, the World Health Organization, and epidemiologists and researchers.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Subbaraman|first=Nidhi|date=2020-03-23|title=Coronavirus tests: researchers chase new diagnostics to fight the pandemic|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00827-6|journal=Nature|language=en|doi=10.1038/d41586-020-00827-6|pmid=32205872|s2cid=214630708}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Yan|first=Holly|title=Trump says the US leads the world in testing. But it's far behind in testing per capita, studies show|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/health/us-coronavirus-testing-per-capita/index.html|access-date=2020-07-08|website=CNN|date=13 May 2020 }}</ref>
▲** Our World in Data's [[COVID-19 testing]] database was published in ''[[Scientific Data (journal)|Scientific Data]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Hasell|first1=Joe|last2=Mathieu|first2=Edouard|last3=Beltekian|first3=Diana|last4=Macdonald|first4=Bobbie|last5=Giattino|first5=Charlie|last6=Ortiz-Ospina|first6=Esteban|last7=Roser|first7=Max|last8=Ritchie|first8=Hannah|date=2020-10-08|title=A cross-country database of COVID-19 testing|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00688-8.epdf?sharing_token=DhVSer4fwMaMn21PlrIsjNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PTrf0-71MWJ-TVId3NUEQUJCLb8G87BoUdAuW8R1_iiTGud8PFK9p5JC67ZMJAXpsgS8kKXhMu3mB2ZZLC5N3NtSS3xfkaXYRTu-Sslh-oREBAjsFqLo8llDsJyPwH6bM=|journal=[[Scientific Data (journal)|Scientific Data]]|language=en|volume=7|issue=1|page=345|doi=10.1038/s41597-020-00688-8|issn=2052-4463|pmc=7545176|pmid=33033256|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* Our World in Data also published data on hospitalizations, excess deaths, and other data.<ref>{{Cite web|title=covid-19-data/public/data at master · owid/covid-19-data|url=https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data|access-date=2022-01-20|website=GitHub|language=en}}</ref>
* All data{{Which|date=July 2022}} is{{When|date=July 2022}} updated daily.
[[Tim Harford]] wrote that during the pandemic, Our World in Data "performed heroic efforts in assembling clear, usable information from a messy patchwork of primary sources."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Harford|first=Tim|title=Why investing in data is never money wasted|url=https://www.ft.com/content/6e046f07-6060-4eba-a203-6b147b45ea6c|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-21|newspaper=Financial Times|date=5 February 2021}}</ref>
The website's visibility largely increased{{Weasel inline|date=July 2022}} compared to the pre-COVID period.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Our%20World%20in%20Data|title=Our World in Data - Google Trends - 2004 to present|website=Google Trends|access-date=2021-10-05}}</ref> The organization began the pandemic with six staff members, and grew to 20 by late 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wiblin|first=Robert|title=Max Roser on building the world's first great source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data|url=https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/max-roser-our-world-in-data/|website=80,000 Hours|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourworldindata.org/team|title=Our World in Data - Team|website=Our World in Data|access-date=2021-10-05}}</ref> [[Edouard Mathieu]] joined in early 2020 and became Head of Data.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Edouard Mathieu: An Open Data Approach to Solving the World's Problems|url=https://ten7.com/podcast/episode/edouard-mathieu-open-data-approach-solving-worlds-problems|access-date=2021-10-05|website=TEN7|language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2021 the team began campaigning for the [[International Energy Agency]] to make the data it collects from national governments genuinely open.<ref name="ritchie-2021">
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