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American homicide victims are mostly men, except when the killer is an intimate partner— Almost 20,000 Americans were murdered in 2023. The chart shows the homicide rates among male and female victims. Men were 2.7 times more likely to die by homicide than women. We can see

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Explore more insights and data on changes in fertility rates across the world:

China’s fertility rate has fallen to one, continuing a long decline that began before and continued after the one-child policy— The 1970s were a decade shaped by fears about overpopulation. As the world’s most populous country, China was never far from the debate. In 1979, China

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Shortly after the end of the last great ice age — 10,000 years ago — 57% of the world’s habitable land was covered by forest. In the millennia since then, a growing demand for agricultural land means we’ve lost one-third of global forests — an area twice the size of the United

Explore the data for all countries in the interactive version of this chart:

📊 Data update: We now show the latest GDP growth projections from the IMF In the spring and fall each year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) publishes its World Economic Outlook. The latest report was published this past October. The report helps us understand how

@EOrtizOspina Read more in our article, “How many people die from the flu?”:

Seasonal flu kills about 700,000 people each year across the world— (This Data Insight was written by @EOrtizOspina.) Seasonal influenza is sometimes seen as a mild illness, but it remains a major cause of death. In serious cases, it can cause deadly complications such as

@_HannahRitchie Read the new article by Hannah Ritchie and Fiona Spooner, “Just ten species make up almost half the weight of all wild mammals on Earth”:

Wild mammals once dominated the mammal kingdom. Not anymore. Today, humans and our livestock account for 98% of the world’s land mammals by weight, while wild land mammals are just 2%. But, as @_HannahRitchie and Fiona Spooner explain in a new article, it’s not just the *total*

See self-reported levels of life satisfaction in your own country:

Afghans report the lowest life satisfaction in the world— Measuring happiness is difficult, but one way to understand how satisfied people are with their lives is to simply ask them. Self-reported life satisfaction is one key metric that researchers often rely on. It asks