Hans Rosling on why most of the world is better off than you think

Hans Rosling explains why despite global inequalities, most of the world is better off than you think - and better off than it has ever been before.
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[@subhashishbagchi3191]

I am from Siliguri not much popular town in India, I have immense respect for sir Rosling and his unique way of explaining difficult topics with such an ease. Professor Hans Rosling is seems to be absolutely right about his statistic that world is slowly moving in better position than compare to the past. I want to share something, My family had been migrated from Bangladesh(East Pakistan) in 1947 during India and Pakistan partition, My great grand dad had 10 children(4 boys and 6 girls), They somehow managed to secure 20 Acres of land and start farming and living in a village near Bangladesh border. My Grand dad has completed his matriculation in 1951 and in 1958 he was appointed as teacher in primary school, he has 6 kids( 4 boys and 2 girls). My grandmother used to teach sewing to the village ladies and used to earn little sum of money. Both my grand-parents were driven by ethics of hard work and care for family. They educate six of their kids( 3 got graduated and 3 other done diploma and vocational training in other field). My father got graduated in 1987 and joined military. he married in 1996 and that time my other was a nurse in a private hospital, I came into this world in 1998. later my mother conceived another child (my sister) in 2006. The main priority of my parents life was only to provide us with better care and education, They enrolled us in private school, I passed my high-school in 2016 and got graduated with an engineering degree this year(2020), I managed to find a job with decent salary for myself in Kolkata and looking further for doing my masters in upcoming years. My great grand dad had nothing except that piece of land but the hard work and proper education helped both my parents and grand-parents to achieve their goals and for them today we have our stable life and decent life-style. EDUCATION IS TRULY THE BEST DEVICE IN THE WORLD TO BREAK THE SHACKLE OF POVERTY.

[@Onewith24]

Rest in peace professor. ;_;

[@IStink3]

Awwww, I didn't realize he passed. I go online evry few months to see if he had any new videos as his passion is incredible, and he also dropped some serious knowledge! RIP Hans

[@GG-wy8pk]

Did he die?? Oh, i really like his videos

[@carpalway]

Shame! I only knew him today on this video!

[@phbrazill]

I have taught macroecoomics for years to high school students, teachers, and college students. I can't imagine teaching without Hans Rosling and will keep him alive in my classes. He truly has changed the world.

[@johnh5646]

You could sit and listen to his voice for hours and not get bored.

[@mikeking6697]

absolutely agree here

[@moonstruck336]

Hans is a legend ! Always in pursuit of the truth, and always finding ways to get people interested in hearing the truth! We need more of these people today !

[@Nora24298]

Hans, vi saknar dig. du var en ärlig man. rest in peace ☮️

[@amarushakur77]

Read the book and it changed for the better. Thank You Professor.

[@sirkildalot8409]

Thank God. Someone who thinks and doesn't just accept the rubbish the media serves up daily! A true hero of our times...

[@henryrooyakkers8510]

There's no god.

[@gee_emm]

We really lost a good one when this man died. R.I.P Hans Rosling.

[@sylviacampbell453]

So, so grateful for THE Professor's "factfullness", keep on, keeping on !!

[@neerajshukla]

Interesting Professor :) I would love to go and chat with him for hours.

[@Troublesome2008]

+neeraj shukla I really like the way he talks: "the relaxing habit of only carrying opinions that are based on facts". Nice XD!

[@willd7317]

u cant cos hes dead

[@airqx2808]

ha no

[@devraga9612]

Amazing. We need more people like him during the 21st century. Hammer the facts. Make them stick.

[@realarnavsingh999]

Rest In Peace :(

[@paksta]

Anyone else look at the world map at 2:43 and actually expect something to happen? I know Hans did!

[@EmileNolde]

Quite amazing!

[@wonggentle]

amazing Hans!

[@jonahd6978]

“The relaxing habit of only carrying an opinion based on facts”, just wow! So many people cannot just look at scientific data, left or right.

[@thewatsonresort7673]

Facts!👍

[@ahah11ful]

I like this guy. he has good points

[@airqx2808]

yeah and now he is deas

[@matildapanton4004]

Anyone watching this because of home schooling?

[@rowanwightman4704]

yeah me

[@rowanwightman4704]

who els had to watch this for school ?

[@binebum1]

Very interesting

[@sponsje]

I wish populist-supporters could see this. Amazing.

[@berbeado]

They won't because of their echo chamber.

[@YksiSuomalainen]

Western nations are already going bankrupt. If the 3rd and 2nd World can just move here there won't be enough jobs for everyone and the entire system will collapse. Resulting in civil wars.

[@martinceder9301]

What populist-supporters? Left or right populists? The populists who think we should have more open borders or the populists who believes its absurd that 5% of the refugees consume 90-95% of the resources?

[@cohenharley1462]

i dont mean to be so off topic but does someone know of a way to get back into an Instagram account? I was dumb forgot my login password. I would appreciate any help you can give me!

[@dustincorey8409]

@Cohen Harley Instablaster :)

[@mgeorge8764]

The takeaway? That the educational institutions and media need to do a better job of teaching the general populace about facts like this so we can demand the politicians to do the right thing? Good luck with that!

[@whifflingtit9240]

The general populace needs to do a better job of informing themselves of the facts.

[@jonasrohdin8856]

@@whifflingtit9240 Yes, it is very much interlinked. We (humans) are the population, the media, the educators, and the government.

[@masukuma]

no worries.. they will get used to it!!

[@unhappiness8465]

Of course. We gotta thank the tools for being obedient and nonviolent against each others.

[@fatetempter]

while he's correct and a reasonable person , zlatan is not a refugee, he's born in sweden, his parents though, were refugees

[@pagusmusic6254]

He’s amazing, I can’t wait to read Factfulness!

[@FilmDudePaulCollins]

There is a video circulating online showing Putin on an old Jerry Springer episode.

[@mattjreid]

What is the environmental cost of an increasingly wealthy world population? Prof Rosling should be explicit about this.

[@VS24AT]

+Matt Reid the point he makes is "submit" to change that is coming some call it climate change, others know it as overpopulation

[@airqx2808]

he can't be anymore

[@Xalira]

He did discuss this in his book, Factfulness. I really recommend it!

[@mrchokeonthisd9077]

RIP

[@feiyuin4178]

this restored my faith. WAIT HES DEAD?!

[@fistfulofknowledge]

I'm not for a moment doubting his point, but what about inflation? Did he take it into account without saying so? Truly more people are better off today than 50 years ago, but the equivalent of 1$ then would be more than 1$ today. Also there's the matter of cost to take into account. Food is far cheaper globally than it was 50 years ago, but almost all other basic commodities have become dearer on the surface. We know that we are on the whole better off, but by how much?

[@TheMusterionOfRock]

+fistfulofknowledge I'm fairly sure the professor took that into count ;)

[@adamthornton7880]

+fistfulofknowledge From what I've seen, in international development contexts, incomes are given in real terms more often than in nominal terms. I expect he meant 2015 (or some other base year) dollars, but just said "dollars" to save time. He should have clarified what he meant, though.

[@michaelkarnerfors9545]

This adjusted for inflation, yes. "One dollar per day" is actually 1.90 USD today.

[@seanwebb605]

Yes, he was working from numbers that were adjusted for inflation.

[@jayakrishninja]

Remember that the value of $1 50 years ago is wayyyy different than the value now

[@alexandraboja77]

so... 50 years ago 1 billion living with a dollar a day, and 1 billion living with some 10 dollars a day... now, we still have those two groups, plus 1 billion living with 100 dollar a day, 1 billion between the last two, and 2 billions between the first 2 groups... it seems to me: 1) we added many more people; 2) a group of extreme rich emerged; 4) we extended (doubled) the 'middle class'; 3) the impoverished group remained - no improvement there, but it tripled with people living in more-or-less the same conditions as the impoverished; 4) we measure the life of people as we did 50 years ago, despite the fact that a dollar doesn't have the same value any more expressed in relative terms (how many breads, kW electricity, or similar)... I don't see how one can say this is better?!? It's obvious that humanity altogether has worked to produce many more people that make rich people richer, but not poor people richer. Where is the improvement in that?

[@sharnistevens1428]

If you read his book, it explains it much better than this video

[@emmajhason7856]

Im too lazy to explain to a pessimist

[@kurumbaatoll9190]

According to the video, there were 2 Billion living on a dollar a day in the 1950s. There descendants today make up the majority of the World population and mostly have a better standard of living.

[@dipenchandra4014]

This is video I make it

[@BenjaminPetersonBFP]

This doesn't address cost of living. 90% of the wealth is concentrated in 1% of the accounts. There's a problem there.

[@TklistNet1]

Cronyism, the convoluted tax code, excessive regulations, excessive government spending, the national debt and the Federal Reserve are the major causes of the widening income inequality gap. Solutions: Abolish the tax code,16th Amendment and IRS. Enact the Fair Tax. Minimize regulations to only what is absolutely necessary. Balance the budget. Start decreasing the national debt. Abolish the Federal Reserve, the FDIC and all bank regulations except one; require full disclosure on full or fractional reserve backing of deposits. Treat gold, silver and cryptocurrencies as legal tender (not as an asset) for tax purposes. The income inequality problem is counterintuitive. Big government equals more income inequality. Smaller government equals less income inequality. The middle class is the byproduct of a free market economy; it is not manufactured by a politician's tax gimmicks, minimum wage laws, or government redistribution of wealth.

[@greenbastard7]

I respect his point and value it as an important perspective to keep in mind, but just because overall wealth is rising for everyone and we are becoming more successful as a species (which should be obvious) does not mean that wealth within our species is becoming more equal. Considering the fact that more money and more people means inflation, as well as fluctuation in the value of currencies, value of interest rates and rising prevalence of debt, this really means that you could divide each of those figures by 10, leaving the 10$ group at 1$ and the 1$ group at 0.1$... Inequality is still rising. The gap between the top and bottom continues to grow and I don't think the professor would debate that, though the video implies it.

[@seanwebb605]

75% of people are living in the sweet spot. Fewer living in real poverty. Now we are debating relative poverty. Even the poor of many nations have more and live better than the rich of a hundred to two hundred years ago.

[@JakobOhlsenS]

Stuart R he does actually adress the gap with a graph and demonstrates that the gap is closing. Look at One of His talks :)

[@ajritson]

Hang on, the world is better off now because rather than just being over 10x richer like in the past, some people are now over 100x richer than the poorest?? The separation of rich and poor is larger than ever and by those numbers, it affects more than ever too!

[@seanwebb605]

75% of people are living in the sweet spot. They have houses with electricity, clean drinking water, good sanitation systems, access to food and healthcare etc.

[@leethomas2582]

A fair few years ago since this video. Such a loss. Could listen to him for hours BUT, here, he’s not quite right. Britain is familiar with high amounts of migration. An average of of 300,000 every year means the equivalent of a new Birmingham every 3rd year but because they are not mostly refugees it somehow doesn’t count. Now this may be down to the empires historic exploits of the past so you can say you deserve it. Maybe. But it’s not right to say all European countries aren’t used to it.

[@rustyfox301]

no first it is because of the need of a better life ! Most countries DO NOT TAKE CARE OF THEIR PEOPLE !!!! AND THEN LIE AND SAY THEY DO !!!!

[@rustyfox301]

NO 50 YEARS AGO THE WORLD WAS CALM AND PEOPLE WERENT AT EACH OTHERS THROATS ON SUCH SMALL AND INSUGNIFICANT ISSUES ! Making it a better place to live and being a human being !!!Educate myself ? Knowledge is the ROOT OF ALL EVIL ! Or did you Ever hear of ADAM & EVE ???? 

[@TheMugfaker]

+Rusty Fox I am pretty sure that we have had less wars, less genocide in the past 50 years, right? Remember WW2?

[@almighty2ssavage-76]

comment if ur from kih yr 9

[@jadettmara2592]

while wealth is rising, the gap between the richest and the proorest is getting much wider

[@seanwebb605]

Maybe, but who cares? Once you level extreme poverty and move to level 4, how much do you really care that others have more than you do? It becomes a matter of relative poverty. The Uber wealthy can come and go as they please, but they can't eat much more. They can't personally consume that much more water or resources. They can only put their name on things. Things that can still be used and benefit others.

[@shaan9890]

how many saw his open zip?

[@Woweeeeee100]

Watch it again please and think about it this time. He is saying that now 5 out of 7 people are living on 10% of the wage of the average westerner as opposed to the previous 2 out of 3. So the global wealth disparity, if his estimates are correct, is worse. It appears he is intentionally presenting it in a way that suggests the opposite. It seems the majority of commentators here have fallen for it, too.

[@ethelthecat1]

I see your point but you mean 4 out of 7 not 5. Problem is, his point is still valid. 2/3 (two thirds of world's population) used to live in extreme poverty, now it is only a 1/7 (seventh). 4 out of 7 have seen their income go up from $1 a day to between $8 and $25 a day and because they have fewer children, this money goes further. Whilst we in the west have seen our wealth increase ten fold our population hasn't really doubled, we've been joined by a new middle class/wealthy elite from Asia and South America. So 1/7 in extreme poverty, 4/7 on middle incomes and 2/7 are wealthy by global standards, not counting the 85 richest people who own more wealth than the world's poorest 3.5 billion people.

[@snaaaafi]

it might be true if there was no such thing called Inflation!

[@petersparks7363]

Adjusted in his figures. Whatch his other vids

[@Sionnach1601]

Sadly, another mouthpiece for the Masters.

[@152manoj]

He says, fifty years ago, the bottom 1 billion people lived on 1 dollar a day, and the top 1 billion lived on 10 dollars a day. Today, according to him, the bottom 1 billion still lives on 1 dollar a day while the top 1 billion lives on 100 dollars a day. This is not good news. Why? The question arises, how is it that with 50 years of progress, there is no improvement for the poorest, while the wealth of the richest has increased 10 times? Is it because the rich has misused their financial power, in collusion with governments, and appropriated the legitimate share of the poor? A disproportionate growth like this is unnatural, and can only be possible through corruption.

[@seanwebb605]

There is improvement for the poorest.

[@clausmadsen4451]

Suggest you watch the video again. Then you will realise that you completely forgot about the remaining 5 billions who on average are on level with western Europe in the 1950s which was a good period. So his point is that these countries are to prosper similarly as western europe did, which is going to create opportunities which eventually is also going to help bringing up the standards in the “ one dollar” countries...

[@TheDisproof]

Unlike Rosling suggests we have not reached peak child. The average is 2.5 children per woman. We are going to add another 190 million before we reach peak child in 2050. Rosling is wrong, even according to the stats he claimed to use.

[@fluffmiller1084]

+TheDisproof 'Peak child' uses the number of children in the world *relative to the world population*. It's not an absolute term. (It also shouldn't be used synonymously with 'per woman' terms such as 'crude birth rate' or 'total fertility rate' which have different meanings.) In 1960, there were 1 billion children which, in relative terms, formed 35% of the worlds population. There's now around 2 billion children in absolute terms, but relatively, they only account for approx. 25% of the worlds population. Current predictions for circa 2050 are around 2 billion children in absolute value, which by then will constitute only 20% of the larger world population due to people living longer. The crude birth rate itself is declining. Most reliable sources (CIA, UN) record this value as currently being less than 20 (i.e. less than 2 children per woman). It's not been 2.5 children per woman since before the year 2000.

[@TheDisproof]

Fluff Miller You haven't been accurate and nor was Rosling: Look at the actual numbers esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/ and note there aren't 2 billion yet, not for another 30 years or more. And it will be well above 2 billion by 2050, not at. Hans was off by 100's of millions. TFR is at 2.48, not 2. See: esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/

[@fluffmiller1084]

+TheDisproof You're quite right I haven't been accurate, but neither did I claim to be: I said there are "*around* 2 billion children" now. In the interests of having a brief discussion on KZbin, I used approximations. However this approximation is not far off the precise (and NB varying!) values provided by the various reliable sources for this data. I agree with you that accuracy is important but it also has to be at a level suitable for whatever the platform is. In the above clip Hans Rosling has a brief slot on a TV interview - he uses a suitable level of accuracy appropriate to the discussion. As far as my comment goes, there is sufficient and appropriate accuracy in the expression "around 2 billion" for the purposes of an informal discussion on KZbin. In reply to your comment on the numbers... Here is the graph from your link (UN population division), clearly showing approx 2 billion children now and a median prediction of approx 2 billion children in 2050. esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/0-14/ (It will appear with Afghanistan data. You'll need to select "WORLD" from the drop down list above the graph) Yes the TFR is currently approx 2.5. The CBR is approximately 1.9. As I said above, total fertility and crude birth data are not synonymous. At the risk of stating what you undoubtedly already know - clearly neither of these terms takes into account child mortality, so for that reason (aswell as others), TFR and CBR cannot be used (unqualified) on their own to predict population growth/decline rates.

[@kementeriankeduitan6241]

dude you forgot to take the inflation into account

[@petersparks7363]

Adjusted in his figures. Whatch his other vids

[@whifflingtit9240]

No he didn't.

[@AndersErichsen-rr7vs]

The Facts are that we have now over 100 Mosques in Denmark and growing - having people that support a Pedophile that had sex with a 9 year young girl still playing with dolls when he was 54 years old and seeing him as the perfect example to follow after. The fear is overtaking people and political correctness - and people don't dare talk against the cult of Mohammadanism of fear of persecution from them. How is it that a People are to be subjugated by foreigners who come to the country to import there false religion of Satan and his Prophet wanting to setup Sharia law in the land that I was native born in. Jehovah is the God of the Bible and he has a Son! Mohammadanism deny Jesus Christ the Son of God, his death and resurrection and many other false doctrines and deception do they put forth - they make our Creator a liar and deny his witness for his Son who died for us. How is Mohammadanism ever truly to be cultural enrichment for the west? - I would rather be without it and help the many Christians being persecuted. Mohammadanism is NOT peace and never has been, and never will be. It's founded on falsehood and deception and murder and that will not change. Ask the Isralites how the so called Religion of Peace is making the region peacefully. How can anyone be surprised that the Jews have returned - when we have a book of many books going way back talking about this land has been giving to the Isralites?

[@WM-eq6md]

Every. Religion. Is. A. Lie.

[@citizenschallengeYT]

3:00 - "The biggest thing is urbanization" 8:15 interviewer says: you spend all your time on "facts" ... ~~~ Nonsense, cherry picked facts doesn't help anyone understand what's happening. All the fancy statistical fast talk adds up to nothing > if it ignores physical reality. The hubristic conceit of people never ceases to amaze. Hans never considers the underlying causes of the increasing refuge crisis. Nor, any acknowledgement that humans are dependent on a healthy biosphere and predictable weather patterns, which we are destroying with breathtaking speed. Ignoring those physical realities in favor of fast talk and cherry picked statistics as these two talking heads do only leads the gullible into yet deeper delusion and disconnect from current global realities.

[@seanwebb605]

I'm not sure where you stand. Have you read the book?

[@citizenschallengeYT]

I have spent decades learning about our physical planet. I don't have to research someone's perpetual motion machine to know I'm dealing with a con artist. The mind is a wonderful playground, much more is possible within it, than is possible within our real physical world. I'm curious Sean, you know anything about climate science or our planet's biosphere? - or how about...How much appreciation do you have for how dependent our society's infrastructure is to fairly moderate and predictable weather patterns? If he showed that he had some serious understanding about such real world constraints under his belt, then perhaps I'd take him a bit more seriously. : ) best wishes.

[@seanwebb605]

He took climate change really seriously. It was one of the issues that he felt needed to be dealt with urgently.

[@citizenschallengeYT]

No he doesn't, look at the transcript - he makes amazingly broad and simplistic assumptions about per capita incomes, then he comes with a one dimensional take on the refuge crisis. When I first saw this I googled "Hans Rosling climate change" more luftgeschäft kzbin.info/www/bejne/ianFoaWPrs-sr7c - Mentioning climate change while moving his shells around, doesn't indicate he understands its fact or significance at all. How about sharing a quote or two of something of significance or insight you've read from Rosling - I'm always open to edification.

[@seanwebb605]

citizenschallengeYT I feel so bad for you.

[@Cromper]

Hans Rosling does not speak facts - he is a demographer who makes up facts from his own statistics.

[@jonasgustaf]

C'mon. He does not have his OWN statistics. Are you proposing he has gone all around the world and counted familys income level? I would rather say that he uses conventional statistics, but puts them together in an educational way.

[@Cromper]

yopez Fair point. My apologies.