2026-08-10 08:00:00
According to a UN report published last year, there are 138 million children in child labor. In this article, we look at what this estimate exactly captures.<br><br><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/138-million-children-are-in-child-labor-what-does-this-actually-mean"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/564b02f9-4455-4334-12ce-94a4583fde00/w=1024"/></a>
2026-08-07 08:00:00
The Energy Institute no longer uses the substitution method to estimate primary energy. Here’s why that matters for our charts on energy.<br><br><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/primary-energy-measurement-change"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/9a8b8dbc-314b-4366-f601-386556664700/w=1024"/></a>
2026-08-03 08:00:00
Agriculture has been the main driver of deforestation, but this has been concentrated in only a few commodities: mostly beef, palm oil, soy, and forestry products.<br><br><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/what-has-driven-deforestation-in-the-21st-century"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/b63c446f-e9a8-4eca-b979-4e1eafb5a500/w=1024"/></a>
2026-07-27 08:00:00
Learn how inequality is measured, who produces key databases, and what the data tells us.<br><br><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/we-published-a-new-topic-page-on-economic-inequality"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/8572fbf8-1c9c-4176-a865-12735e86a000/w=1024"/></a>
2026-07-20 08:00:00
Data centers consume around 1.5% of global electricity, but demand is very geographically concentrated.<br><br><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/how-much-energy-do-data-centers-and-artificial-intelligence-use"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/1bda728d-dc32-4ca7-32f8-dcb5be9a4b00/w=1024"/></a>
2026-07-13 08:00:00
Explore how populations are distributed across settlement types, which cities are growing fastest, what living conditions in urban areas look like, and much more.<br><br><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/we-have-a-new-urbanization-topic-page"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/a57ed482-5955-4a15-01c2-fc5092c4ac00/w=1024"/></a>
