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Acknowledged publicly · firewalled from editorialTheWorldInNumbers exists because organisations and readers fund the public's right to the numbers. We thank them by name — and by policy, that is all supporters receive: no supporter, of any size, has any influence over what the numbers say.
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Year-one targets · quarterly reporting| Dimension | Metric | Year-one target |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | Figures published · feed impressions | 250 · 2m |
| Trust | Figures verified · uncorrected errors | 100% · 0 |
| Depth | Long reads · embedded dashboards | 10 · 4 |
| Reuse | Data-pack downloads · citations | 2,500 · 50 |
| Local impact | Ghana figures · training participants | 60 · 100 |
The founding-year budget
US$86,000 · sought across 3–5 fundersA two-person newsroom with professional tooling and a training programme. No single funder above 40%; unspent restricted funds returned or rolled forward by agreement.
Full line-item budget, governance detail, and grant structures are in the funder dossier — request it above.