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Our World in Data

Thousands of cleaned, sourced charts on health, population, poverty, energy, climate, education, food and conflict.

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About Our World in Data

Search OWID charts, read the definition, caveats and citation, and pull the data behind a chart for any countries and years. Good for long-run, cross-country context with sources you can cite.

Questions you can ask Our World in Data

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“How has child mortality fallen worldwide since 1950, and how is it measured?”

What comes back: The chart’s data by region and year plus its definition, caveats and citation.

“Compare CO₂ emissions per capita for Sweden, China and the USA since 1990.”

What comes back: Yearly values per country with units, sources and the OWID citation.

Our World in Data MCP tools

The 3 tools the Our World in Data server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.

  • owid_search_charts

    Search Our World in Data charts (health, population, poverty, energy, CO2, education, food, war, technology …).

  • owid_chart_metadata

    Metadata of one OWID chart: each column's short name, unit, time span, definition, key caveats, sources and citation, plus when it was last updated.

  • owid_get_data

    Data behind one OWID chart as CSV (entity, code, year, one column per series), optionally filtered to countries/regions and a year range.

Using Our World in Data in Kahubi

  • Hosted by Kahubi. Kahubi runs this server itself so it stays reliable enough for research use.
  • Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
  • Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to Our World in Data.

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