Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?

www.ted.com Hans Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up an astonishing -- mostly unreported -- piece of front-page-worthy good news. Along the way, he debunks one flawed approach to stats that blots out such vital stories.
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[@rubjm9]

This man is just amazing. I love seeing the world for a positive point of view!

[@channelname28]

He is so good, i like his videos even before watching them. I know his talks are always going to be good and informative.

[@lucaslin1373]

RIP Hans Rosling

[@Aresftfun]

I loved this guy's other TED talk. It was awesome. This one it good too.

[@MarnieDK]

I'm mad!! How come not one single person in the audience gave a standing applause?! That was an awesome presentation of incredibly important information!

[@ChalleFoV3]

What a lovely man! Great talk!

[@vanmaren962]

Definitely my favorite TED speaker

[@libanlibanliban]

I love Hans Rosling's presentations.

[@dismutased]

I find this guy's lectures FASCINATING. More please!

[@TheGrapplingMonkey]

I love his talks! :)

[@trulez]

Hans Rosling being brilliant as always. I really enjoy his talks here in TED because not only is he well informed on the subject he talks about, but he's also very enthusiastic about his subject.

[@sachinpatwardhan629]

Hans ur methods were stunning....and will remain so through 'gapminder' that u gifted us 🙏

[@Jontman42]

Love Roslings talks :D

[@ml777insk]

Hans Rosling is always so uplifting.

[@roidroid]

yet another typically awesome Rosling talk

[@silvercoin1111]

thank you for the good news, for your energy and passion...not everything seems so bad:)

[@briansmobile1]

9:56 "We want others to be better than we were." -Great attitude and motives.

[@PatGunn]

I love his enthusiasm!

[@dravreh]

Great talk - very insightful!

[@TheSpankymonkey]

"From where do the data come" - Love it. Will be using this all day tomorrow.

[@SailorBarsoom]

That works too. Thanks for posting it.

[@thankqwerty]

A man with true passion and compassion, just for that he deserves all the admiration.

[@Epitzsche]

I feel cramps in my jaw after smiling the whole video!

[@ChocolateTeddybar]

Excellent talk!

[@molnes]

Another solid TED-talk by Rosling.

[@zethiago]

excellent talk professor!

[@penlikker]

Always love TED

[@tdurran]

I love his passion

[@AWilliamster]

Absolutely brilliant!

[@inkajoo]

i work with this guy talking in the background. i just like the sound of his voice.

[@afaultytoaster]

wow, that was amazingly hopeful. he's a good speaker

[@Nardypants]

I am flabberghasted. Another inspiring talk by Hans Rosling.

[@Skyburner50]

Best stats talk by him so far

[@maxiaguirre]

this guy is amazing!

[@kalaway]

I absolutely Love how jazzed he is about statistics :D

[@Sondre7]

Rosling delivers as always. Great video! Sort of embarrassing that the video at the end of such a global presentation talks about "american jobs" though.

[@JPO1618]

I love Hans Rosling so much! Download his software. You can make amazing graphs like he does. Hans has to be the most entertaining statistician in the world. Thanks to Vogter2100 for the link..i missed this one.

[@lucasvalentim5699]

Very good!

[@Outermainstream]

I like this guy.

[@JYMIMUSIC]

love this guy!

[@goodgoodgoodful]

statistics majors must watch this as an encouragement. their work is very important to analyze, then comprehend the facts more objectively.

[@waterloo995]

he is the reason I started watching TED

[@LanteanKnight]

This guy is awesome :D

[@waqasahmed939]

Hans Rosling is awesome you know

[@isambo400]

cool TED talk bro

[@RedeemedByGodsLove]

he's a great speaker. I love his accent haha.... I just want to listen to his voice more lol!

[@coldhell123]

Hans rosling is the only person on earth whose stats is actually entertaining and cool to watch

[@Th3Wab3]

that was standing ovation worthy...

[@profjaykay]

old guys with lots of energy are awesome

[@harsha540]

Infotainment at its best......

[@DeadWhiteButterflies]

I love how he talks so passionatelt about it, and rightly so! It's true people need to realise that this is a modern world, and not every country that isn't so-called "western" is somehow seen as living under the conditions of a gulag. I mean it's to the point that politicians still think that way. It's a common prejudice that remains unchallenged, and that's a real shame. What a brilliant, passionate man though. Good on him! :)

[@lishun]

some much-needed good news indeed!

[@davidt0504]

I hope there is a correlation between how those dots on the graph are moving closer together and the world becoming more of a global community.

[@topgurl9313]

Brilliant.

[@furetosan]

Seriously, that guy is awesome!

[@DJGelbart]

Hans Rosling is awesome.

[@mooxim]

TED loves Hans Rosling. I do to. What a guy.

[@eeriksson4807]

Great jub

[@andreruegg9490]

He is awesome!

[@zydomason]

awesome.

[@Crit93]

good talk.

[@lekosboy]

This guy is amazing.

[@MegF142857]

Last Sunday "60 Minutes" was in a village in northern India where infant & child mortality was staggering. Newborns were put to the side on dirt getting cold while they attended the mothers. They used dirty knives to cut umbilical cords. Just teaching about basic hygiene & keeping child warm was saving so many lives!!! -- Many women & newborns also die from tetanus from dirty instruments, which vaccine & hygiene can prevent. Simple things, big results.

[@Autokiller36]

oh man I love how he says people and peoples, great guy haha! :D and goooogle

[@waqasahmed939]

No probs. I use bit.ly when referring to links within the KZbin comments

[@MegF142857]

This guy is great. What he says matches what "Mr. Condom" said in recent talk about lowering child mortality and then can start to bring down family size with family planning. Women are a key.

[@caviper1]

I like this guy a lot.

[@TalynCo]

Hans Rosling does it again.

[@krishnamohitsingh7363]

This man is great because of him my interest in stats are increasing, looking forward to read his book!!!!

[@LifeInspector]

@kaasvaag the whole point of the talk was that when child mortality drops, women have way fewer children. That's the bubbles moving to the left on the graph, from having like 8 children per woman to having 2 or 3. The way to stabilize the population and eventually reduce it is to lower child mortality, and the way to do that is female education. That's the talk in a nutshell.

[@HarveyMushman]

@guyincognito84 so do i! he makes listening to statistics so easy and interesting!

[@EclecticSceptic]

He'd actually make you think you wanted to be a statistician.

[@flapflapflap4]

i love this guy

[@CurtHowland]

@yourboycal "The cooperation needed is out of this world" That cooperation already happens every day.

[@extendetBG]

This really is a good news. Thank u TED!

[@azerim2039]

Current child mortality in Kenya: around 50 per 1000 children. In 15 years it went from 100 to 50.

[@timeofwonder2009]

Brilliant as usual. Go Hans!

[@saerain]

I didn't recognize Hans without his hair.

[@ZirconCode]

That was very Good

[@Benjamin__C]

@crixus not meaning to challenge you, but could you explain what you mean?

[@roytuber]

The reason why Singapore is a developing country is due to the fact that she wants to be one! It pays a lot to be of the developing world; having to contribute to humanitarian aid, etc.

[@POLKQWER]

this man is a genius

[@readisgooddewaterkant7890]

good vid

[@P1ranh4]

@kaasvaag somebody didn't watch the last part of the video

[@NeiltheNotSoBrave]

faved and subbed.

[@PixelatedSpirit]

It's called : Swenglish. =)

[@TJWasiuk]

I wish he was my sociology teacher.

[@OrenDf]

one of a kind.

[@lordmetroid]

@yourboycal I find that the biggest problem is that the philosophy of schooling has been wrong from the beginning. Everyone do not need to know everything. It is better if the children can pursuit what they are interested in at the moment. There are of course a few basic skills such as literacy and basic arithmetic that people in general need. However these skills are essential so I would presume that anyone growing up would automatically learn such skills. Reform the philosophy of schooling!

[@sparksfly44]

I have to write an essay about world population. So watching all of Rosling's talks isn't really procrastination, right?

[@MikeGalosi]

Yes, Hans, take me into your bubble graphs.

[@Phelan666]

I have no idea why, but this guy reminds me of a Swedish version Walter from Fringe. Anyway, @ 11:45 people have way more children to increase the probability of at least one of the surviving into adulthood. Also, the UN seems categorize nations as "developing" because they're not European/American nations.

[@xWingTsubasa]

TALE ME INTO YOUR BUBBLE GRAPHS :D YOU'RE AWESOME!

[@SailorBarsoom]

@DerEchteSenf I... think you're right. I think. My head hurts.

[@jackgoldman1]

I wish one of their goals was to end taxation and the counterfeiting of the currency by central banks.

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

Well it's 2015 now and I wonder how much if any of the goals were achieved.

[@raizin4908]

I don't know about all the goals, but I _have_ heard that the goal of reducing extreme poverty was very successful. So much so, that the goal for the next term is to completely eradicate it.

[@Truthiness231]

Hans is slated to be one of the greatest people few know about... what he's done for statistics - to take them out of their confusing forms and put them in full light - is synonymous with curing cancer ^.^

[@goodgoodgoodful]

"China comes into the western box..." (starting from 12:22) sounds like football commentator LOL

[@CurtHowland]

@yourboycal "Free for all" Indeed, a wonderful opportunity for innovation without any artificial barriers to entry. Real competition, no vested interests using regulations to protect themselves from either competition or prosecution for things like pollution. Strict individual liability, individual responsibility, individual liberty. "Imagine there's no countries, I wonder if you can..."

[@JimHisself]

12:12 "Now I start the world" HE MAKES IT SO FUN :D GO BUBBLES GO TO THE WESTERN BOX