Search over 1,700, often surprising, info-bites covering food, hunger, farming, inequality, living democracy—and more. A public database developed by the Small Planet Institute research team:
11 billion people are projected to be in the world by end of the century
Happy Planet Index identifies three groups of nations: unsustainable, unhappy, and almost happy
Creativity decreases mortality risk in older men
Worldwide percentages of unplanned pregnancies
Our brains have an "optimism bias"
Half the world's people live in countries where birth rates are below replacement levels - even
Worldwide, more people die from suicide than from all homicides and wars combined
Sustainable happiness model: intentional activities increase happiness
BRAC helped reduce Bangladesh's under-5 child mortality rate from 180 to 53 deaths per 1000 chil
1 billion people in developing countries participate in social safety net programs which have been s
