The Swedish statistician and physician Hans Rosling explains in this excellent TED Talk how infant mortality, population growth, economic disparity etc. between rich and poor countries have been improving in the past few decades. The animated statistics are brilliant and the take home message is that the world is not going to hell in a handbasket. On the contrary, poverty and misery have been disappearing and the developing world has been rapidly moving toward the middle. Most of the world is now middle income with the health and life quality outcomes in line with that.
What are your thoughts on this?
