Our World in Data

A VERY INTERESTING WEBSITE
Does it seem to you that all of the information you hear is BAD and getting worse? I just learned of a website that can help give you some perspective on that. It is the Website of a nonprofit run by Oxford University that keeps data on all kinds of things.

According to their own description.
"Our World in Data is a non-profit website that brings together the data and research on the powerful, long-run trends reshaping our world: Through interactive data visualizations we show how the world has changed; by summarizing the scientific literature we explain why."

The information that they collect and the graphs are available to anyone and used by government agencies and others to make plans.
 

"It is possible to change the world. In many important ways global living conditions have improved. These facts are surprising to many because it is a widespread belief that the world is stagnating or getting worse. We believe that in our fight against current challenges it is important to know that we have been able to make progress up to now and we should use the opportunity to study in detail how it was possible to improve living conditions in the past."

You can look at their graphs and explanations by topic. Some of the topics are
literacy, life expectancy, income inequality and plastics pollution. There are Many others and they all have very readable explanations.

https://ourworldindata.org