Every dataset behind the atlas.

1. Berkeley Earth — Land/Ocean Temperature Record — berkeleyearth.org/data ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026
2. BloombergNEF — Lithium-ion Battery Price Survey — about.bnef.com/blog/lithium-ion-battery-pack-prices-see-largest-drop-since-2017 ↗ · link-only · vintage 2024
3. Chancel, Piketty, Saez & Zucman — World Inequality Report 2022 — wir2022.wid.world ↗ · link-only · vintage 2022
4. Charles I. Jones — 'The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population' (AER, 2022) — www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20201605 ↗ · academic — link-only · vintage 2022
5. Climate Watch (2026) — greenhouse gas emissions by sector — ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector ↗ · CC BY · vintage 2026
6. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) / ECMWF — ERA5 — pulse.climate.copernicus.eu ↗ · Copernicus licence (free reuse with attribution) · vintage 2026
7. CSIRO & NOAA — Global mean sea level, via U.S. EPA — www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-sea-level ↗ · Public Domain · vintage 2024
8. Doepke, Hannusch, Kindermann & Tertilt — 'The Economics of Fertility: A New Era' (2022); Myrskylä, Kohler & Billari (Nature, 2009) — www.nber.org/papers/w29948 ↗ · academic — link-only · vintage 2022
9. EM-DAT — International Disaster Database, CRED / UCLouvain (link-only) — www.emdat.be ↗ · restricted — link-only · vintage 2025
10. Ember — Yearly Electricity Data — ember-energy.org/data/yearly-electricity-data ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026-06-13
11. FAO — Forest area, via Our World in Data — ourworldindata.org/grapher/forest-area-km ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2025
12. Federation of American Scientists — Nuclear Notebook — fas.org/initiative/nuclear-information-project ↗ · CC BY 4.0 (via OWID) · vintage 2026
13. Global Carbon Budget (2025) — globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2025
14. Global Terrorism Database (START, U. Maryland) — www.start.umd.edu/gtd ↗ · CC BY 4.0 (via OWID) · vintage 2026
15. IEA — CO₂ Emissions / World Energy Outlook (link-only) — www.iea.org/topics/global-energy-transitions ↗ · restricted — link-only · vintage 2025
16. IEA — Global EV Data Explorer — www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/global-ev-data-explorer ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026-06-13
17. IEA — Global EV Outlook 2024 — www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2024 ↗ · link-only · vintage 2024
18. IEA — Global EV Outlook 2026 (report) — www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-product/global-ev-outlook-2026 ↗ · link-only · vintage 2026
19. IEA — Renewables 2024 / Electricity 2025 — www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2024 ↗ · link-only · vintage 2024
20. IHME — Global Burden of Disease (link-only) — vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-results ↗ · IHME Free-of-Charge Non-Commercial Agreement · vintage GBD 2021
21. IHME — Global Burden of Disease 2021 (link-only) — vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-results ↗ · IHME Free-of-Charge Non-Commercial — link-only · vintage 2021
22. IHME — Vollset et al., 'Fertility, mortality, migration, and population scenarios' (The Lancet, 2020) — www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30677-2/fulltext ↗ · academic — link-only · vintage 2020
23. ILOSTAT — International Labour Organization — ilostat.ilo.org ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026-06
24. International Labour Organization (ILOSTAT) — ilostat.ilo.org ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026
25. IPCC — Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (link-only) — www.ipcc.ch/sr15 ↗ · © IPCC — cited with attribution, not re-hosted · vintage 2018
26. Johnson & Papageorgiou — “What Remains of Cross-Country Convergence?” (J. Econ. Literature) — www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20181207 ↗ · link-only · vintage 2020
27. Jones et al. (2025) — National Contributions to Climate Change / Global Carbon Project — ourworldindata.org/grapher/methane-emissions ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2025
28. Kremer, Willis & You — “Converging to Convergence” (NBER 29484) — www.nber.org/papers/w29484 ↗ · link-only · vintage 2021
29. Lutz, Skirbekk & Testa — the low-fertility-trap hypothesis (2006); Pritchett — desired fertility and policy (1994) — www.jstor.org/stable/20058983 ↗ · academic — link-only · vintage 2006
30. Maddison Project Database — www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison ↗ · CC BY 4.0 (via OWID) · vintage 2026
31. Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-agency Group (MMEIG) — www.who.int/data/maternal-newborn-child-adolescent-ageing/maternal-health ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2023
32. NASA GISS — GISTEMP v4 — data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp ↗ · Public Domain (US Government) · vintage 2026
33. NASA/JPL — GRACE & GRACE-FO ice-sheet mass — climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/ice-sheets ↗ · Public Domain (US Government) · vintage 2026
34. National Snow and Ice Data Center — Sea Ice Index v3 — nsidc.org/data/seaice_index ↗ · Public Domain · vintage 2026
35. ND-GAIN — Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative Country Index (link-only) — gain.nd.edu/our-work/country-index ↗ · licence unclear — link-only · vintage 2024
36. NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory — CH₄ & N₂O concentration — gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends ↗ · Public Domain (US Government) · vintage 2026
37. NOAA NCEI — Global Ocean Heat Content (0–2000 m) — www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/global-ocean-heat-content ↗ · Public Domain (US Government) · vintage 2026
38. OpenAlex — openalex.org ↗ · CC0 1.0 · vintage 2026-06
39. Our World in Data — ourworldindata.org ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026-06
40. Our World in Data — “$3 a day: a new poverty line — what changed, and why?” — ourworldindata.org/new-international-poverty-line-3-dollars-per-day ↗ · link-only · vintage 2026
41. Our World in Data — “The end of progress against extreme poverty?” (Max Roser) — ourworldindata.org/end-progress-extreme-poverty ↗ · link-only · vintage 2026
42. Our World in Data — Annual CO₂ emissions (Global Carbon Budget) — ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026-06-13
43. Our World in Data — Atmospheric CO₂ concentration — ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-long-term-concentration ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026
44. Our World in Data — Children per woman (UN WPP) — ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-un ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026
45. Our World in Data — Electric car sales (IEA) — ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026-06-13
46. Our World in Data — Extreme poverty in brief (Max Roser) — ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief ↗ · link-only · vintage 2026
47. Our World in Data — Life Expectancy — ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2024
48. Our World in Data — Population growth rate / births / median age (UN WPP) — ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-growth-rates ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026
49. Our World in Data — Population, with UN projections — ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-long-run-with-projections ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026
50. Our World in Data — Poverty — ourworldindata.org/poverty ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026-06
51. Our World in Data — Projections of extreme poverty (World Bank) — ourworldindata.org/grapher/projections-extreme-poverty-wb ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026
52. Our World in Data — Solar PV module prices (Lafond et al. / IRENA) — ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026
53. Our World in Data — War & Peace — ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026-06
54. Patel, Sandefur & Subramanian — “The New Era of Unconditional Convergence” (J. Development Economics, 2021) — www.cgdev.org/publication/new-era-unconditional-convergence ↗ · link-only · vintage 2021
55. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) — www.sipri.org/databases/milex ↗ · CC BY 4.0 (via OWID) · vintage 2026
56. UN IGME — Under-five mortality, via Our World in Data — childmortality.org ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026
57. UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) — childmortality.org ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2024
58. UN OCHA — occupied Palestinian territory — www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties ↗ · Cited (not re-hosted) · vintage 2026
59. UN World Population Prospects 2024 — Demographic Indicators (direct) — population.un.org/wpp ↗ · CC BY 3.0 IGO · vintage 2024
60. UNAIDS — aidsinfo.unaids.org ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2024
61. UNHCR Refugee Data Finder — www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics ↗ · CC BY 4.0 (via OWID) · vintage 2026
62. UNODC Global Study on Homicide — www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/global-study-on-homicide.html ↗ · Link-only (non-redistributable) · vintage 2025
63. Uppsala Conflict Data Program — ucdp.uu.se ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026-06
64. Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP / PRIO) — ucdp.uu.se ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026
65. WHO Global Health Observatory — www.who.int/data/gho ↗ · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO · vintage 2024
66. WHO Mortality Database / UNODC — platform.who.int/mortality ↗ · CC BY 4.0 (via OWID) · vintage 2026
67. WHO/UNICEF Estimates of National Immunization Coverage (WUENIC) — www.who.int/teams/immunization-vaccines-and-biologicals/immunization-analysis-and-insights/global-monitoring/immunization-coverage ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2024
68. WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme — washdata.org ↗ · CC BY 4.0 (via the World Bank) · vintage 2026
69. World Bank — “Lifting 800 Million People Out of Poverty: Lessons from China’s Experience” (2022) — www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/lifting-800-million-people-out-of-poverty-new-report-looks-at-lessons-from-china-s-experience ↗ · link-only · vintage 2022
70. World Bank — Access to electricity (EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS) — data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026
71. World Bank — aging & dependency (SP.POP.65UP.TO.ZS, SP.POP.DPND.OL) — data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.65UP.TO.ZS ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026
72. World Bank — Fertility rate, total (SP.DYN.TFRT.IN) — data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026
73. World Bank — Forest area (% of land area, AG.LND.FRST.ZS) — data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2025
74. World Bank — GDP per capita, PPP (NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.KD) — data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.KD ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026-06-12
75. World Bank — girls' secondary enrolment, women's labour force, adolescent fertility — data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.ADO.TFRT ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026
76. World Bank — Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026-06-12
77. World Bank — Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) — pip.worldbank.org ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026-06
78. World Bank — World Development Indicators — data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5 ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026
79. World Bank HNP — Health, Nutrition & Population by wealth quintile (DHS & UNICEF MICS) — databank.worldbank.org/source/health-nutrition-and-population-statistics-by-wealth-quintile ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage various surveys
80. World Bank Open Data — data.worldbank.org ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026-06
81. World Glacier Monitoring Service — reference-glacier mass balance — wgms.ch ↗ · CC BY 4.0 · vintage 2026
82. World Inequality Database (WID) — wid.world ↗ · CC BY 4.0 (via OWID) · vintage 2026

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