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Jan 11, 2019 · The following seven charts show how the world has become a much better place compared to just a few decades ago. (Click on the images to expand the charts in your browser). 1: Life expectancy ...
- Life Expectancy Continues to Rise
- Child Mortality Continues to Fall
- Fertility Rates Are Falling
- GDP Growth Has Accelerated in Developed Countries
- Global Income Inequality Has Gone Down
- More People Are Living in Democracies
- Conflicts Are on The Decline
Even during the Industrial Revolution, average life expectancy across European countries did not exceed around 35 years. This does not imply that most people died in their late 30s or even 40s, since it was mostly very high levels of child mortality rates that pulled down the average. Women dying in childbirth was obviously a big problem too. So we...
More than a century ago, child mortality rates were still exceeding 10% – even in high-income countries such as the US and the UK. But thanks to modern medicine, and better public safety in general, this number has been reduced to almost zero in rich countries. Plus, developing economies like India and Brazil now have much lower child mortality rat...
Even though many are concerned about the global population explosion, the fact is that fertility rates have fallen significantly across the globe. UN populationestimates largely expect the global population to stabilise at about 11 billion by the end of this century. Moreover, as can be seen from the chart, many developing countries such as Brazil,...
Technological leaders, the US and Western Europe, have been growing at about 2% per year, on average, for the past 150 years. This means that real income levels roughly double every 36 years. While there were many long-lasting ups and downs, like the Great Depression or the recent Great Recession, the constancy of the long-run growth rate is actual...
While inequality within countrieshas gone up as a result of globalisation, global inequality has been on a steady downward trend for several decades. This is mostly a result of developing countries such as China and India where hundreds of millions of people have seen their living standards improve. In fact, for the first time ever since the Indust...
Throughout most of human history people lived under oppressive non-democratic regimes. As of today, about half of the human population is living in a democracy. Out of those still living in autocracies, 90% are in China. While the country has recently moved in the other direction, there is reason to believe that continued economic development might...
Throughout history, the world has been riven by conflict. In fact, at least two of the world’s largest powers have been at war with each other more than 50% of the time since about 1500. While the early 20th century was especially brutal with two world wars in rapid succession, the postwar period has been very peaceful. For the first time ever, the...
- Living in Absolute Poverty (1981-2011) Absolute poverty is defined as living on less than $1.25/day. Over the last 30 years, the share of the global population living in absolute poverty has declined from 53% to under 17%.
- Child Labor Is on the Decline (2000-2020) This chart depicts the actual and projected changes in the number of children (in millions) in hazardous work conditions and performing child labor between 2000 and 2020.
- Income Spent on Food. This chart shows the percent per capita of disposable income spent on food in the U.S. from 1960 to 2012. If you focus on the blue line, ‘Food at home,’ you can see that over the last 50 years, the percent of our disposable income spent on food has dropped by more than 50 percent, from 14% to less than 6%.
- Infant Mortality Rates. This chart depicts global under-five-years-old mortality rates between 1990 and 2012 based on the number of deaths per 1,000 live births.
Oct 29, 2019 · In year 2030 over 60% of the world’s population will live in cities, have an urban mindset and a community-based reality. Good life choices can be made based on information and data enabled systems that allow freedom of choice combined with proactive service delivery from city to people.
- Ceri Parker
Dec 5, 2017 · A median of 46% say life today is worse than five decades ago, compared with 42% who think life is better. Positive ratings of progress range from 47% “better” in South Africa to 36% in Ghana. Nigeria and Kenya are the only countries surveyed in the region where more than half say life is worse (54% and 53%, respectively).
- Jacob Poushter
Dec 23, 2016 · In 1800, there were 120 million people in the world who could read and write; today there are 6.2 billion with the same skill. 3) Health One reason we do not see progress is that we are unaware of ...
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Mar 15, 2022 · ‘Longtermism’ is the idea that people who live in the future matter morally just as much as those of us who are alive today. 12 When we ask ourselves what we should do to make the world a better place, a longtermist does not only consider what we can do to help those around us right now, but also what we can do for those who come after us. The main point of this text – that humanity’s ...
