How the World Has Radically Improved in 200 Years

Professor Hans Rosling loves statistics. He loves them so much that he enlisted a team of computer techs to create the most amazing interactive picture of the life and wealth of the world over the last 200 years using using augmented reality animation.

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5 Responses to How the World Has Radically Improved in 200 Years

  1. Refract says:

    I’ve been told that almost everyone today in modernized countries will develop cancer. Can the good doc plot cancer, heart disease, and other degenerative disorders?

  2. Drburn says:

    AMAZING STATISTICS

  3. Anthony Maw says:

    It says that mankind as a whole is becoming more educated and intelligent and therefore is able live longer and more productively. For any given nation there is a correlation of the chart’s mentioned life-expectancy/wealth point and the average number of years of education of the country’s citizens. Perhaps plotting the same chart in 3-dimensions with education as the z-axis would be revealing.

  4. Anonymous says:

    George Bernard Shaw told us:

    There are 3 types of lies.
    The white lye, not to offend somebody.
    The simple lie.
    Statistics. You can proove anything you want, depending on viewpoint. . .

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