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Our World in Data, published by the Global Change Data Lab

Headquarters: Oxford
Founded: Started in 2011 by Max Roser, public since 2014; the Global Change Data Lab was established in 2018 as a registered charity
Funding: Grants from the Quadrature Climate Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, support from the World Health Organization and the UK Department of Health and Social Care, and donations from several thousand readers — more than 4,000 individual donors in recent years. The first grant was £75,883 from the Nuffield Foundation in 2014.
Governance: A charity governed by a board of trustees chaired by Hetan Shah and regulated by the Charity Commission for England and Wales, with Oxford researchers acting as scientific editors.
Published: Continuous — articles and datasets update as upstream sources publish.
Licence: Dataset-specific: upstream terms apply to third-party data; data produced by Our World in Data are CC BY 4.0.