Venezuela had the highest inflation rate for food of Latin America, according to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). As of September 2022 (the lat...
The United States, Sweden, Singapore, Switzerland and the Netherlands are the five most prepared countries to use, adopt or adapt to frontier technologies, which will be essential to the ...
Data from Ember’s fourth annual Global Electricity Review reveals that electricity generation from coal increased by 1.1 percent last year, which is in line with the average rate of growt...
Wind and solar power accounted for 12 percent of global electricity in 2022, according to Ember’s fourth annual Global Electricity Review, published today. This rises to 39 percent when c...
Cooking and baking is the most popular hobby among retirees in the United States with nearly half of all respondents saying it is one of their pastimes, according to the latest wave of da...
Finland leads the ranking of the world's happiest countries for the sixth year in a row, according to the 2023 World Happiness Report. While its score (7.80) is significantly ahead of all...
OpenAI launched its brand new multimodal language model GPT-4 this week, just four months after releasing the first version to the public. ChatGPT has taken the tech world by storm with i...
Half of U.S. respondents disagree with the statement that national news organizations do not intend to mislead, misinform, or persuade the public, according to a new report by Gallup and ...
The United Kingdom is expected to be the only G7 country to fall into recession in 2023, according to the latest estimates of the International Monetary Fund. Annual GDP is set to contrac...
Eight countries in Europe recorded all-time high temperature records for January on New Year’s Day this year. The following data draws from the visualization of meteorologist Scott Duncan...
While it’s true that the world is getting better on the whole, the rate of social progress has slowed significantly in recent years. This is according to the 2022 Social Progress Index. W...
Hong Kong has been named the world’s top city for public transit, according to a new study by consulting firm Oliver Wyman and the University of California, Berkeley. The city’s transport...
For many, this Christmas will be marked not only by a tentative return to normality as Covid-related restrictions have eased up around the world, but also by the general increase in price...
Governments from around the world have agreed to draw up a global agreement by the end of 2024 to put an end to plastic pollution. As the following chart shows, a majority of polled consu...
The Guardian reports that discussions over a potential new ‘Rainforest OPEC’ deal are underway between Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo - three countries holding the...
