Roser was born in Kirchheimbolanden, Germany, a village close to the border with France. In 1999, he and a friend won a prize in the German youth science competition Jugend forscht with a model of a self-navigating vacuum cleaner.[5]Der Spiegel reported that he travelled the length of the Nile from the mouth to the source, and that he crossed the Himalayas and the Andes.[6]
In 2012, inequality and poverty researcher Tony Atkinson hired Roser at the University of Oxford where he collaborated with Piketty, Morelli, and Atkinson.[8] In 2015, he established a research team at the University of Oxford which is studying global development.[9]
He founded Our World In Data, a scientific web publication with the goal to present "research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems."[10] During the first years he financed his project by working as a bicycle tour guide around Europe.[11]
Roser said that there are three messages of his work: "The world is much better; The world is awful; The world can be much better".[14] He listed global poverty, inequality, existential risks, human rights abuse, and humanity's environmental impact among the world's most severe problems.[1][15]
About his motivation for this work he wrote "The mission of this work has never changed: from the first days in 2011 Our World in Data focussed on the big global problems and asked how it is possible to make progress against them. The enemies of this effort were also always the same: apathy and cynicism."[16] He said that "it is because the world is terrible still that it is so important to write about how the world became a better place."[14]
He is critical of the mass media's excessive focus on single events which he claims is not helpful in understanding "the long-lasting, forceful changes that reshape our world, as well as the large, long-standing problems that continue to confront us."[1][17][18] In contrast to the event-focussed reporting of the news media Roser advocates the adoption of a broader perspective on global change, and in particular a focus on those living in poverty.[18] The focus on the upper classes, especially in historical perspective, is misleading since it is not exposing the hardship of those in the worst living conditions.[19]
He advocates looking at larger trends in poverty, education, health and violence since these are slowly, but persistently changing the world and are neglected in the reporting of today's mass media.[18]
He is known for his research how global living conditions are changing and his visualisations of these trends.[20][21][22] He has shown that in many societies in the past a large share (over 40%) of children died.[23]
Research
Roser's research is concerned with global problems such as poverty, climate change, child mortality and inequality.[2] In 2015 research with Tony Atkinson, Brian Nolan and others he studied how the benefits from economic growth are distributed.[24][25][26]
In October 2019 he co-authored a study of child mortality. It was the first global study that mapped child death on the level of subnational district.[27] The study, published in Nature, was described as an important step to make action possible that further reduces child mortality.[28]
He and Felix Pretis found that the growth rate in CO2emission intensity exceeded the projections of all climate scenarios.[29] With Jesus Crespo Cuaresma he studied the history of international trade and its impact on economic inequality.[30]
Roser has criticized the practice of focusing on the international poverty line alone. In his research he suggests a poverty at 10.89 international dollars per day.[31] The researchers say this is the minimum level people needed to have access to basic healthcare. The reason for the low global poverty line is to focus the attention on the world's very poorest population.[32] He proposes using several different poverty lines to understand what is happening to global poverty.
In global health research he studied the impact of poverty on poor health and disease and contributed to a textbook on global health.[33][34] His most cited article, coauthored with Hannah Ritchie and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, is concerned with global population growth.[35]
Roser is a regular speaker at conferences where he presents empirical data on how the world is changing.[36] He is part of the Statistical Advisory Panel of UNDP.[37] UN Secretary-General António Guterres invited him to internal retreats attended by the heads of the UN institutions to speak about his global development research.[38]
The data visualization expert Edward Tufte repeatedly cited and reprinted the work by Max Roser in his books.[45][46]
Roser developed a global cartogram in which the area of each country represents the size of the country’s population. He published it open access and it became widely used in the media (including the FT, The Economist, and in open source applications).
Awards
In 2019 he was listed in second place among the "World’s Top 50 Thinkers" by Prospect Magazine.[47]
In 2019 Our World in Data won the Lovie Award, the European web award, "in recognition of their outstanding use of data and the internet to supply the general public with understandable data-driven research – the kind necessary to invoke social, economic, and environmental change."[48]
In 2021 he received the Covid Innovation Heroes Award "for an outstanding contribution to public understanding for helping people across the world see, and more importantly understand, critical pandemic data."[49]
In 2022 he was selected as one of "The Future Perfect 50", as one of 50 scientists and writers who are building a better future.[50]
References
^ abc"About". Our World in Data. Archived from the original on 5 October 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
^"Our World in Data". Global Health Education and Learning Incubator, Harvard University. Archived from the original on 14 May 2023. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
^ abSchmundt, Hilmar (2 January 2016). "Statistiken Frohe Botschaft". Der Spiegel (in German). Vol. 1. Archived from the original on 7 February 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2016.(subscription required)
^Roser, Max; Cuaresma, Jesus Crespo (1 July 2012). "Borders Redrawn: Measuring the Statistical Creation of International Trade". Working Papers in Economics and Finance. Rochester, NY. SSRN2111864.
^Kohler, Stefan; Roser, Max; Geldsetzer, Pascal; Bärnighausen, Till (2021). "Ökonomie und globale Gesundheit" [Economics and Global Health]. In Bonk, Mathias; Ulrichs, Timo (eds.). Global Health (in German). De Gruyter. pp. 523–556. doi:10.1515/9783110448474-020. ISBN978-3-11-044847-4.
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