Factfulness

Now that people start realizing what we meant by 5 global risks, (because nr.1 just happened) lets also realize that nr. 2,3,4&5 are real risks! A financial collapse must be prevented, just like World War 3, Global warming and Extreme Poverty too!

Are you a science geek with an interest in public health? You probably imagine people like you know more about the future of global health than others… Watch me present some test results at 10:20 in Stockholm at the Nobel Week Dialogues today: svtplay.se/video/ePvVQGV/…

@eldsjal @elonmusk Most plp are wrong about tons of macrotrends. They’ll keep relying on misguided intuition as long as they get away with pretending to know. Data usage takes more time than guesswork. Global policy won’t become fact-based until we have required learnings in politics and business.

Some things are worse than you think! The #Gaza Famine victims are 81% of global famine-risk-population. 0.57M in Gaza are in @theIPCinfo's category 5 out of 0.7M worldwide. But as most plp overestimate suffering, and think famine is common, they don't see: Gaza is extreme! Share.

The many bad things that happened in 2023 are easy to remember. But the good things are easy to forget. We have made a list of 100 positive stories from 2023 that might make you feel differently about the 12 months that went by… #positivenews gapminder.org/pos23

The world is full of problems, which people are often very aware of. But most people have no idea about the many improvements we have visualized, and therefore they lose hope for the future and think the world is doomed. gapminder.org/i

Today's improvement is: Smallpox disappeared decades ago! gapminder.org/65

Today's improvement is: In 2023, women have finally won the right to vote in all countries! gapminder.org/55

Today's improvement is: 9 in 10 people are now connected to the grid! gapminder.org/51

@jburnmurdoch Glad you loved @factfulness ! 😁 I can agree that your particular use of the term Developed World in this case is not very mislead. Agreed! But WEO’s binary worldview is pure surealism. Try motivate in what way Malawi and Malaysia belong in the same group? 1/2

Today's improvement is: The average life is now 42 years longer! gapminder.org/49

@ktiwari31 @stats_feed @HansRosling gapminder.org/tools/#$model$…

@stats_feed Data showing % of population with diabetes would make comparison meaningful. @factfulness @HansRosling

Number of people with diabetes: 🇨🇳 China: 140.9m 🇮🇳 India: 74.2m 🇵🇰 Pakistan: 33.0m 🇺🇸 USA: 32.2m 🇮🇩 Indonesia: 19.5m 🇧🇷 Brazil: 15.7m 🇲🇽 Mexico: 14.1m 🇧🇩 Bangladesh: 13.1m 🇯🇵 Japan: 11.0m 🇪🇬 Egypt: 10.9m According to International Diabetes Federation, 2021

@ktiwari31 @stats_feed @HansRosling gapminder.org/tools/#$model$…

Today's improvement is: Gases that harm the ozone layer have been almost entirely phased out! gapminder.org/71

Here's Gapminder's improvement of the day: Child labor steadily decreased until 2016, as more and more parents could afford to send their children to school. Most people don't know about this gigantic change and, therefore, they can't imagine that one day, all children could go to school instead of working! gapminder.org/52

@CWABookClub @NamuliBlazevic @DeanNatukunda @HansRosling @ClainsTino @DeborahKMalaika @kisakye_martha @OmonaMark3 @justusmuhanguz1 @asiimwe4justice @UmutesiLibrary We’re glad you are reading our book! Feel free to ask questions and/or tell us what you think about it . /@OlaRosling

Announcement: The next book for the #CWABookClub Factfulness: Ten reasons we’re wrong about the world - and why things are better than you think. A 2018 book by Swedish physician, professor and statistician Hans Rosling with his son Ola Rosling and daughter-in-law Anna Rosling.

Almost half of all countries have had a woman head of state or government at some point in their history. That is the "little-known improvement" of December 4th, and we'll post another one every day in December. gapminder.org/10

Why don't you hear about oil spills in the news right now? The number of oil tanker spills have decreased enormously. (To light up December's darkness, we are publishing little-known improvements every day.) gapminder.org/70

Our @osventuresllc Fellow @tonymmorley gifted me a copy of this book and while I had already read it, I started re-reading it and was reminded how good it is. I recommend getting a copy if you haven't read it, great stuff.

The extreme poverty dropped to less than half since 1990! gapminder.org/4