Felix Lanver
@felixlanver.bsky.social
Interested in data-driven insights on global politics, economics & society.
Doctoral Researcher @unibremen.bsky.social.
Comparative Political Economy | Welfare States | Labor Markets.
🔗 https://felixlanver.github.io/
Doctoral Researcher @unibremen.bsky.social.
Comparative Political Economy | Welfare States | Labor Markets.
🔗 https://felixlanver.github.io/
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Felix Lanver
@felixlanver.bsky.social
· May 19
Check out my latest data story on Latin America & the Caribbean!
-> felixlanver.github.io/lac_story/
-> felixlanver.github.io/lac_story/
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One of the world’s most famous fertility rate charts must be this one. China is now down to one child per woman on average.
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
One of the world’s most famous fertility rate charts must be this one. China is now down to one child per woman on average.
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Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025.
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
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Our visual guide to how a bust that rivals the dotcom era could wipe out 8% of Americans’ household wealth
How much wealth would be destroyed by an AI stockmarket crash?
Our visual guide to how a bust that rivals the dotcom era could wipe out 8% of Americans’ household wealth
econ.st
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Our visual guide to how a bust that rivals the dotcom era could wipe out 8% of Americans’ household wealth
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🔴New Article🔴 by Kerem Gabriel Öktem & Lutz Leisering: "Emerging social assistance regimes in middle income countries: Turkey in comparative perspective" @journals.sagepub.com @sagepub.com #socialassistance #socialpolicy #globalsocialpolicy #sociology
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October 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
🔴New Article🔴 by Kerem Gabriel Öktem & Lutz Leisering: "Emerging social assistance regimes in middle income countries: Turkey in comparative perspective" @journals.sagepub.com @sagepub.com #socialassistance #socialpolicy #globalsocialpolicy #sociology
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Every year Gallup, a pollster, asks people in more than 140 countries how they felt the day before they were surveyed. Our charts break down the data
The world has become surprisingly less grumpy
But our analysis of polling data shows an uneven recovery in how people feel
econ.st
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Every year Gallup, a pollster, asks people in more than 140 countries how they felt the day before they were surveyed. Our charts break down the data
I don’t do beauty sleep I am hibernating through the collapse of the global order
September 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I don’t do beauty sleep I am hibernating through the collapse of the global order
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August 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Tracking Trump’s New Tariffs on Every Country
Tracking Trump’s New Tariffs on Every Country (Gift Article)
See which countries are being targeted by President Trump, as he seeks to remake the global trading system.
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Tracking Trump’s New Tariffs on Every Country
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📊 New dataset and paper alert!
We’re proud to launch the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019: a global dataset covering 1,452 mass mobilization movements. It was just published in Comparative Political Studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Below follows a 🧵
We’re proud to launch the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019: a global dataset covering 1,452 mass mobilization movements. It was just published in Comparative Political Studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Below follows a 🧵
August 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
📊 New dataset and paper alert!
We’re proud to launch the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019: a global dataset covering 1,452 mass mobilization movements. It was just published in Comparative Political Studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Below follows a 🧵
We’re proud to launch the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019: a global dataset covering 1,452 mass mobilization movements. It was just published in Comparative Political Studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Below follows a 🧵
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We just released version 3.1 of WhoGov, a global dataset on members of government from 1966-2023. The update fixes the mistakes that came to our attention while creating the Paths to Power dataset + mistakes users have notified us of
More additions and updates to WhoGov are on their way, including:
More additions and updates to WhoGov are on their way, including:
Download dataset - Nuffield Politics Research Centre
A research note for version 3.1 of the dataset, the codebook, which describes the variables in the two datasets, and the online appendix are found here:
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
August 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We just released version 3.1 of WhoGov, a global dataset on members of government from 1966-2023. The update fixes the mistakes that came to our attention while creating the Paths to Power dataset + mistakes users have notified us of
More additions and updates to WhoGov are on their way, including:
More additions and updates to WhoGov are on their way, including:
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A symbol of unity in defiance of oppression.
36 years ago, two million people joined hands across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a fearless demand for freedom - the Baltic Way 🇪🇪🤝🇱🇻🤝🇱🇹
A main walkway in the EP building in Brussels is named in honour of the event.
36 years ago, two million people joined hands across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a fearless demand for freedom - the Baltic Way 🇪🇪🤝🇱🇻🤝🇱🇹
A main walkway in the EP building in Brussels is named in honour of the event.
August 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
A symbol of unity in defiance of oppression.
36 years ago, two million people joined hands across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a fearless demand for freedom - the Baltic Way 🇪🇪🤝🇱🇻🤝🇱🇹
A main walkway in the EP building in Brussels is named in honour of the event.
36 years ago, two million people joined hands across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a fearless demand for freedom - the Baltic Way 🇪🇪🤝🇱🇻🤝🇱🇹
A main walkway in the EP building in Brussels is named in honour of the event.
Why don’t we just invent a few dumb prices and give them to Trump in exchange for supporting Ukraine and reducing tariffs? It might work…
August 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Why don’t we just invent a few dumb prices and give them to Trump in exchange for supporting Ukraine and reducing tariffs? It might work…
Vichy Twitter.
checking analytics and Bluesky now sends us more than three times as much traffic as Vichy Twitter
August 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Vichy Twitter.
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The average Trump tariff is now 18%
A tariff is a tax on American companies and American consumers
Better stock up on coffee
A tariff is a tax on American companies and American consumers
Better stock up on coffee
August 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The average Trump tariff is now 18%
A tariff is a tax on American companies and American consumers
Better stock up on coffee
A tariff is a tax on American companies and American consumers
Better stock up on coffee
I am doing a PhD in labor statistics but I get the feeling it’s not that wanted these days
August 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I am doing a PhD in labor statistics but I get the feeling it’s not that wanted these days
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Germany is deliberately alternating between positive and negative growth each quarter just to mock those fixated on the technical definition of a recession.
July 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Germany is deliberately alternating between positive and negative growth each quarter just to mock those fixated on the technical definition of a recession.
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Compare 2016 with 2025 in this chart. In less than a decade Chinese car exports overtook Germany’s by a huge margin. What a decade!
July 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Compare 2016 with 2025 in this chart. In less than a decade Chinese car exports overtook Germany’s by a huge margin. What a decade!
Russia's war is increasingly coming home: In 2024, Gazprom recorded losses of $12.89 billion. Sanctions and declining revenues due to the Ukraine invasion have severely impacted the company. To offset these losses, domestic gas prices in Russia will rise by 10.3% starting July 1
Nach Mega-Verlusten: Gazprom erzwingt höhere Gaspreise zur Rettung
Russlands Wirtschaft unter Druck: Gazprom schreibt rote Zahlen. Russische Bürger müssen die Verluste durch höhere Gaspreise ausgleichen.
www.fr.de
June 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Russia's war is increasingly coming home: In 2024, Gazprom recorded losses of $12.89 billion. Sanctions and declining revenues due to the Ukraine invasion have severely impacted the company. To offset these losses, domestic gas prices in Russia will rise by 10.3% starting July 1
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"Die anhaltende Hitze im Mittelmeer und Atlantik zwingt den staatlichen 🇫🇷 Energieversorger EDF in Südfrankreich bereits Ende Juni 2025 dazu, die Stromproduktion in mehreren AKWs zu drosseln.
Grund: Überhöhte Wassertemperaturen in den Flüssen, die zur Kühlung der Reaktoren benötigt werden."
Grund: Überhöhte Wassertemperaturen in den Flüssen, die zur Kühlung der Reaktoren benötigt werden."
Frankreichs Atomkraftwerke müssen Leistung drosseln: Hitzewelle im Mittelmeer - Wassertemperaturen mehr als 5 Grad über saisonalem Durchschnitt
www.iwr.de
June 29, 2025 at 6:14 AM
"Die anhaltende Hitze im Mittelmeer und Atlantik zwingt den staatlichen 🇫🇷 Energieversorger EDF in Südfrankreich bereits Ende Juni 2025 dazu, die Stromproduktion in mehreren AKWs zu drosseln.
Grund: Überhöhte Wassertemperaturen in den Flüssen, die zur Kühlung der Reaktoren benötigt werden."
Grund: Überhöhte Wassertemperaturen in den Flüssen, die zur Kühlung der Reaktoren benötigt werden."
Yesterday’s events reminded me of this
'Here comes the dictator' Juncker's cheeky welcome for Hungarian PM
YouTube video by euronews
www.youtube.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Yesterday’s events reminded me of this
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Europe is putting Nord Stream 1 & 2 behind for good.
We also propose to lower the oil price cap from 60 to 45 $ per barrel.
Oil is one third of Russia’s government revenues.
We need to cut this source.
We'll discuss how to best coordinate with partners at the G7 Summit ↓
europa.eu/!qG9bx3
We also propose to lower the oil price cap from 60 to 45 $ per barrel.
Oil is one third of Russia’s government revenues.
We need to cut this source.
We'll discuss how to best coordinate with partners at the G7 Summit ↓
europa.eu/!qG9bx3
June 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Europe is putting Nord Stream 1 & 2 behind for good.
We also propose to lower the oil price cap from 60 to 45 $ per barrel.
Oil is one third of Russia’s government revenues.
We need to cut this source.
We'll discuss how to best coordinate with partners at the G7 Summit ↓
europa.eu/!qG9bx3
We also propose to lower the oil price cap from 60 to 45 $ per barrel.
Oil is one third of Russia’s government revenues.
We need to cut this source.
We'll discuss how to best coordinate with partners at the G7 Summit ↓
europa.eu/!qG9bx3