Max Roser

The WHO’s estimates of the excess mortality in the COVID pandemic got published in Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05522-2

The WHO estimates 14.8m excess deaths in 2020 and 2021.

This is quite similar to other estimates (e.g. the weekly updated estimates produced by The Economist https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?uniformYAxis=0&Metric=Excess+mortality+%28estimates%29&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=false&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=~OWID_WRL).

In the last two decades, the world has made very good progress against global poverty.

Except at the very lowest cutoffs. The very, very poorest people in our world live on extremely little and this situation has barely changed since 2010.

A fact that doesn't get the attention that it deserves.