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John Burn-Murdoch

Chief Data Reporter

John Burn-Murdoch is a columnist and the chief data reporter for the Financial Times. He writes the weekly Data Points column, where he uses statistics and graphics to dig into the most pressing issues of the day, covering everything from the economy to climate change, social issues and healthcare.

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  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    European travellers cancel US visits as Trump’s policies threaten tourism

    International visitors stay away as political and economic tension and fears of a hostile border rise

    The American flag and an American Airlines jet in the distance
  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    Data PointsDonald Trump
    Trump chaos is alienating Republicans

    Outside of the Maga ecosystem, bad economic news is starting to cut through

    FT montage of Donald Trump wearing a Maga cap, with a chart line falling behind him
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Data PointsTechnology
    Why hasn’t AI taken your job yet?

    New research shows ChatGPT’s inability to cope with ‘messy’ multitasking is still protecting some human workers

    Montage of a person seen from behind sitting at a desk with labour market graph lines in the background
  • Saturday, 22 March, 2025
    Data PointsMedia
    The misinformation discourse is a distraction

    Media fragmentation and the erosion of shared sources of truth are bigger threats

    Montage image of a smartphone held in someone’s hands along with two chart lines
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    Data PointsHealth
    Have humans passed peak brain power?

    Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning

  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    Data PointsGeopolitics
    Why the Maga mindset is different

    US decisions can no longer be analysed using assumptions shared across the democratic west

    Cutout black and white image of Donald Trump with red and blue graph lines in the background
  • Saturday, 1 March, 2025
    Data PointsFootball
    Manchester United is tackling the wrong problem

    A decade of accumulated sporting failure is now hitting the club’s bottom line

    Sir Jim Ratcliffe, centre, Manchester United’s head coach, Ruben Amorim, left, and centre-back Harry Maguire
  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    Data PointsAirlines
    Is air travel becoming more dangerous?

    A spate of high-profile incidents has shone fresh light on aviation safety

    FT montage of an American Airlines jet flying in front of a bar chart
  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    The Economics Show podcast34 min listen
    Why are birth rates falling? With Alice Evans

    Birth rates are plunging in most countries

  • Monday, 10 February, 2025
    The Economics Show podcast35 min listen
    Is innovation slowing down? With Matt Clancy

    Can science keep delivering breakthrough discoveries and economic growth?

  • Friday, 31 January, 2025
    Data PointsSocial affairs
    How undercounting immigration skews narratives

    The US and UK have been underestimating population growth but with diverging implications

    Keir Starmer and Donald Trump are intersected by a graph line that spikes towards the end of its trajectory
  • Friday, 24 January, 2025
    Data PointsGeneration Z
    Gen Z Americans are leaving their European cousins in the dust

    Millennials across the west were united in their economic malaise. Their successors not so much

    Collage showing Big Ben and the Statue of Liberty, with red and blue arrows crossing in the background
  • Saturday, 18 January, 2025
    Data PointsMental health
    Young people are hanging out less — it may be harming their mental health

    Could the decline of face-to-face interaction tie together several modern mysteries?

    Montage image of two young people facing in different directions with a chart
  • Saturday, 11 January, 2025
    Data PointsDemographics and population
    The relationship recession is going global

    A rise in the number of single people is becoming a key driver of falling birth rates

  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
    Data PointsGlobal inequality
    Inequality hasn’t risen. Here’s why it feels like it has

    What appears on the surface to be a flat trend masks churn beneath

    Montage image of chart lines and cash, some $100 notes and some $1 bills
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    The Big Read
    What the ‘year of democracy’ taught us, in 6 charts

    The billions who voted in 2024 sent an angry message to incumbents, and warmed to populists on left and right

    Montage of presidents Donald Trump of the US, Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico and Emmanuel Macron of France
  • Sunday, 22 December, 2024
    Populism
    Year in a word: Incumbent

    Being elected to government used to help you stay there. Now it may help push you out

    A composite image showing President Biden, a ballot box and the word incumbent spelt in tiles
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Data PointsSocial Media
    Why the TikTok era spells trouble for the establishment

    Populism is the winner in the shift from traditional to social media and from text to video and audio

    A combination image of a chart detail and a young adult watching TikTok on a mobile
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Transport
    Manchester mayor hails bus reform but rural leaders lukewarm

    Funding fears loom over UK government’s plan to improve struggling services through franchising powers

    Buses at Piccadilly bus station in central Manchester
  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    Data PointsUK society
    The London problem is holding young Brits back

    Americans and Europeans have a choice of places to prosper

    FT montage of the City of London skyline
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Data PointsUK economy
    What if the UK isn’t actually the sick man of Europe?

    Britain’s illness-related inactivity crisis looks increasingly like a mirage

    Montage image of a medical professional taking a blood pressure reading from a patient
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Data PointsUS opioid epidemic
    Fentanyl deaths are falling. What’s behind the decline?

    The evidence points to changes in the drug supply

    FT montage of a bottle of pills with a graph line trending down
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    Meta Platforms
    Meta loses ground to Bluesky as users abandon Elon Musk’s X

    Social media giant’s Threads app makes changes as smaller competitor to X surges

    Bluesky and X app logos
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Data PointsUS politics & policy
    Trump broke the Democrats’ thermostat

    The American left was sent spinning in 2016 and is yet to recalibrate

    Montage image showing a person wearing a suit with a red tie
  • Saturday, 9 November, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Poorer voters flocked to Trump — and other data points from the election

    FT analysis of this week’s election results paint a dire picture for the Democrats

    Montage of a vote ‘here sign’ and a chart
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