艺术与文化
Are parents spending less time with their kids?
Over the last 50 years many countries have seen large changes in family structures and the institution of marriage. These changes – which include a rise in single-parenting and a large in...
Esteban completed his DPhil in Economics at the University of Oxford and is a Research Associate at Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government.
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工作与未来
These charts show how our working hours have changed
In today’s hustle and bustle world, it’s easy to assume that we are all, by and large, working more than ever. But is that really the case?
新兴技术
Who do you spend the most time with? This chart shows how that may change
As we go through life we build personal relationships with different people – family, friends, coworkers, partners. These relationships, which are deeply important to all of us, evolve wi...
健康与心理健康
Is there a link between 'individualistic' societies and loneliness?
There is a popular perception that countries in Northern Europe are heavily individualistic and because of this people in these societies tend to be much lonelier. The data, however, does...
公民社会
Why humans are increasingly choosing to live alone
In the US, the share of adults who live alone nearly doubled over the last 50 years. This is not only happening in the US: single-person households have become increasingly common in many...
深度产业
The importance of social networks for innovation and productivity
Economies today are increasingly built on ideas. Consider, for example, commercial aviation. After a flight, Southwest Airlines can unload and reload passengers to get the same airliner b...
深度产业
Over 2.5 billion people use social media. This is how it has changed the world
Facebook, the largest social media platform in the world, has 2.4 billion users. Other social media platforms including Youtube and Whatsapp also have more than one billion users each.
健康与心理健康
更多时间与别人相处，是否会使我们更快乐？
1938年，哈佛大学研究人员开始了一项研究计划，追踪一群年轻人的生活，该研究最终成为历时最久、最著名的纵向研究之一。通过定期访谈和医疗检查来追踪一群少年男孩的发展，该研究旨在了解他们在成长过程中的健康和幸福情况。
健康与医疗系统
Social isolation is linked to higher mortality rates and illness
Dr. Vivek Murthy, former Surgeon General of the United States, recently wrote: “Loneliness and weak social connections are associated with a reduction in lifespan similar to that caused b...
健康与心理健康
Are we happier when we spend more time with others?
In 1938, a group of Harvard researchers decided to start a research program to track the lives of a group of young men, in what eventually became one of the longest and most famous longit...
经济增长
Are emerging economies deindustrializing too quickly?
As today’s developed countries grew richer, they experienced a process of ‘structural transformation’. This means they first went through a period of industrialization as the economic cen...
You're probably wrong about other people's happiness
We tend to underestimate the average happiness of people around us. The following visualization shows this for countries around the world, using data from Ipsos’ Perils of Perception—a cr...