Skip to main content
Hannah Ritchie on Muck Rack

Hannah Ritchie

Edinburgh
As seen in: It Gets Good, Our World in Data, Next Big Idea Club Podcast, The Waterstones Podcast, CNN, CNN Business, CNN en Español, CNN Travel, G1 Globo, MSN, MSN Canada, MSN Singapore and
Deputy Editor @OurWorldinData / Researcher at @UniofOxford / Honorary Fellow at @EdinburghUni @EdCentreCC / Not the End of the World: amzn.to/3MdaOci
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Hannah

Contact Hannah, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

Fertility rates across many countries have converged, despite starting from very different levels

|
By Hannah Ritchie
| Our World in Data
In the thirty years since I was born, fertility rates in my country, the United Kingdom, have not changed much. In 1993, the fertility rate was 1.8 births per woman. Thirty years later, it had dropped only slightly, to 1.6 births. Elsewhere, the change has been much more dramatic; fertility rates have dropped sharply and are now similar to those in the UK. You can see this in the chart, which shows the change in fertility rates from 1993 (in purple) to 2023 (in blue).
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (1) Issue with article?

Hoe wordt voedsel over de wereld verhandeld?

|
By Hannah Ritchie
| Foodlog.nl
Van welke landen zijn we vooral afhankelijk voor al die verschillende voedingsmiddelen? Om het antwoord op die vraag inzichtelijk te maken, ontwikkelde mijn collega Sophia Mersmann een interactieve visualisatie. Die laat voor uiteenlopende voedingsmiddelen de handelsstromen zien, van het producerende land naar het land waar het product wordt geconsumeerd. Zo kun je zien hoe en waar voedsel over de wereld wordt verhandeld.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

How does food get traded around the world?

|
By Hannah Ritchie, Sophia Mersmann, Pablo Rosado
| Our World in Data
Our interactive tool helps you see where food is exported from and where it goes. By Hannah Ritchie (conceptualization & writing), Sophia Mersmann (visualization), Pablo Rosado (data), and Marwa Boukarim (design) June 29, 2026 My local supermarket here in Scotland is full of foods that were grown and produced elsewhere: bananas from South America, cocoa beans from West Africa, and citrus fruits from my southern neighbors in Europe. This is the case in many parts of the world.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 2,822 licensed articles (2,845 Total)