New insights on poverty | Hans Rosling 

My goodness. That was best TED presentation I've ever seen. From the data to statistics to the vision to doing the impossible. Yes, Sir Roling, the seemingly impossible is possible.

RIP Hans. You and your work will never be forgotten.

Prof. Hans Rosling died on February 17, 2017. Way too early. He had a genuine and unique way of presenting "boring" statistics in a way anybody can understand. Somewhat criticized for being _too positive_ he continued to show that the overall situation for many persons have become better. But with this presentation he showed that it came with a cost. A cost that our children will have to pay for, and we don't know whether there will be any grandchildren if this world order continues as it does today.

The guy is a genius. But he shouldn't do sword swallowing. It's too risky. The world needs him alive & well.

I love the bit on "Grandma verfied statistics" [07.36] to [08:56]

RIP Hans Rosling! It's a sad day today!

From most precious word wallowing to sword swallowing. The man was a legend!

SUPER interesting. Hans has done it again!

He has shown the crack of life!!! The whole universe is nothing but numbers...

The reference of GDP per capita is misleading because this reveals nothing about the concentration of ownership of assets (i.e., land and capital goods and finance reserves) and income. A main reason for the decline in health and life expectancy in the United States is not difficult to comprehend. Income and wealth are increasingly concentrated, leaving a higher and higher portion of the population left with a subsistence level existence. This is not a result of some natural law but the fact that the U.S. system of law and taxation significantly benefits a "rent-seeking" minority over those who produce goods and provide needed services. The U.S. government keeps no statistics on the ownership of land. Roughly half of the land area is held by government at all levels. According to the best estimates of economists (e.g., Mason Gaffney, Fred Foldvary, Nicholas Tideman) who have studied land markets and ownership, over 95% of the LAND VALUE in the U.S. is held by fewer than 5% of the population, plus foreign nationals and corporate interests. For two-thirds of U.S. households the amount of land owned is that beneath a primary residence. If the property is within a high rise condominium their proportion of land ownership is nominal. And, of course, one-third of all households own no land at all. Their primary asset is likely to be an automobile. The connections are indisputable for anyone willing to think about our history and the ongoing movement of people from the land by force of one form or another. The solution is one in recent years put forward by former World Bank economist Joseph Stiglitz: change the way government raises revenue from the taxation of earned income, of capital goods and commerce and impose an annual tax on the potential rental value of land and land-like assets (e.g., the broadcast spectrum). This is the only real path to ending poverty in any country.

there are many people living in west just the same way, even worst. The reason for that is different. Also its a different topic by itself. What he is suggesting that is, developing countries are catching up faster than how developed nations did in the same time period with their available wealth, power and global influence.

Hans is awesome!

I love this man! Not only the science in the data he provides, but his interpretayion on it, his point of view, attitude. What a great contribution

I think the sword was a good way to make people remember him and his ideas. xD

This guy has very good information using his data. It's very true, it put a smile on my face when people are getting out of poverty. This is a must watch video, you need to learn about our world and the people in it.

For me, Hans was the best presenter and explainer ever. I miss his awesome presentations.

"I expect to live a hundred years."

Hi People. There are 3 Pictures hanging in the back. Does anyone know who the women with the yellow bow on the right side is? Would be super great if someone knows the answer or has a Suggestion :) Thanks!

Grandma verified!

He is trying to change our steryotype about developing countries and L.E.D.Cs. Developing countries are rising in the health and quality of live areas while L.E.D.Cs are doing well when compared to where they are coming from. He also makes important points about the development of any nation highlighting the importance of setting a goal of better health and culture and acheiving it through economic growth and governance.

13 years ago today

كم في واحد من طلاب الدكتورة هنا طه من الجامعة الهاشمية ♥️

God! I love the Scandinavians!

WOW! indeed. Just wondering if anybody knows what software was he using to do all the bubbles etc. It's interesting how he has presented the data.

that ending is hilarious and awesome!! is culture why there's a picture of judy garland behind him?

Fantastic presentation! It´s a need to think about the climate change in the everyday life. What is progress and what will the cost be? What happens if everyone that is poor will adapt our way of life? How shall we change our way to live?

:))))

I love this guy, the sword part was really cool

RIP #hansrosling #fuckcancer

The seemingly impossible is possible. It is a matter of WILL!

Your point is relevant. In the US, any child born alive is counted at a live birth. In Many European countries, Sweden included, if a child is born weighing less than 500 grams, it is not counted as a live birth. Newborns less than 500 grams are more likely to die. So comparisons are not always apples to apples.

Un saludo a la banda de eco 2

then dont donate money to people that want to buy weapons from your money. it would be stupid to donate to people like that.... you need to really get informed about the organization you would like to support, really x-ray it, get it checked, get oppinions... and if everything is okay then you donate.

These are great stats :D does anyone know the website he used there so I can cite it in my own academic papers?? thanks!

Quite a good insight... economic power is the means but not the goal... But sadly, most of the ones power... sees these as the both the goal and means because of their greed and desire of maintaining the status quo... They better listen to this man, he's got a point...

What this shows is how quickly the world progresses socially as a direct result of American industrial progress. The mortality rate of Argintina today couldn't exits if it were not for the medical/industrial progress made by the United States. Period/ n

هذا الرجل ينظر نظرة اختزالية للعالم وتجد هذا واضحا عندما قال ان حياتك تتمحور حول البقاء في حال كنت فقيرا وهذا اختزال فاحش من منظور اوروبي مادي صرف وكذلك ظهر ذلك في وضعه للاهداف وطريقة تقسيمها ووضع النقاط عليها فمن الجلي ان مثل هذا التقسيم ناتج عن نظرة مادية بحتة من علماني غربيّ فهذا الشخص قد وقع تحقيقا فيما حذر منه مطلع مقطعه وهو النظرة الضيقة للعالم

genius, genius, genius, genius!! this vid is as much inspirational as it is entertaining *sigh*

The link to his statistics program is gapminder(fullstop)org

Bring me my sword! lol

See, you're getting circular here. If we'd measure correctly, then it could prove your point, while you don't want to measure correctly. There are tons of tools to measure poverty, like variability, or a simple graph with x = personal property and y = number of people who own that amount of wealth. It would be easy for the jerk in the vid to use one of these logical, simple and obvious benchmarks, but then of course his laughable propaganda would be exposed as the joke that it is.

Arbitrary? Did you really write "arbitrary"? So the fact that more and more people live with less than a d0llar per day is not a sign of increasing poverty and inequality, but of the DECREASING purchasing power of the d0llar in the same time span? If you can't remember what we're debating, then read it. GDP/capita, life expectancy, infant mortality isn't able to measure poverty.

I am not creating an artificial example, but you are claiming that all societies with inequality concerning the distribution of wealth are pyramidal. Just compare the two Apartheid regimes of Israel and South Africa: The percentage of people that is oppressed and impoverished due to racistic criteria is quite different. In South Africa, a small minority oppressed a vast majority (and some say, still does). In Israel, a majority oppresses a minority.

You pretty much debunked yourself. Mean and Median give no information about the distribution of wealth, or inequality, and therefore poverty (and stinkin richness). People can be very poor and still live long lives, especially when the infant mortality is low, which is the main factor of live expectancy. It says something about the availability of vaccines, about the health system, about culture, etc., but that does in no way equal poverty.

"Anyway, what do you suggest using?" - "Indicators of poverty: How many people have to live with one d0llar a day (without the inflation tax). Numbers are rising. But the superrich own 110 000 000 000 000 , 00 $. Bottom line: Watch the rise of poverty." Bottom-line: It would really really really help if you would start to learn to read - and think.

So if 50% of the population earns 9900 $ a month, and 50% of the population earns 100 $ a month, how do mean and median differ from a society where 100% earns 4500$ a month? And what is the difference between mean and median in that case? Waiting....waiting...

Render unto Caesar that which is Caesars. The idea of the state and government is that it's the biggest protection racket in town. If you pay for state protection then if anyone starts any trouble a bunch of heavies show up and sorts it out. I'd rather the rule of law than mafia.

i think europeans and americans are way too creative to just step off the throne. sure, the future of agriculture, industry, and simple services is in the BRIC and other fast develpoers, but europe, america, and japan always have the advantage of high education levels, political liberty, and free information. i think all of this will make the previously mentioned countries centers of media, culture, social studies, and really high technology.

to arliben: I don't think he's saying there's a causal relationship between life expectancy and family size. There is a correlation that we can see just by looking at the graphed data, and that's all he's saying. He chose those two factors because they are often assumed to be some of the biggest differences between 1st and 3rd world countries. "Manipulation of data" is interpretation. It's only bad when the manipulation is intended to decieve, which isn't happening here.

Variability in itself doesn't measure poverty. If you have 100 people earning 5$, there's more poverty but less variability than if you have 99 peaople earning 6$ and one earning 1000000$. Onse again, a graph can't be used in his presentation. He needs a single number. Yes, there are tons of better tols to measure poverty than life expectancy. However, none of them is as simple and transparent as life expectancy.

Yes, one dollar a day is arbitrary. (well, it was actually chosen after a lot of research, but that's besides the point). Why not use 2$ a day? I didn't say anything about the decreasing or increasing purchasing power of the dollar w.r.t. time. Just that it changes between countries. I insist that life expectancy is a better indicator. If the government gives you free food, housing and healthcare but no cash benefits, you're better off than living on 1$ a day.

The choice of 50/50 is artificial. It's also unstable: the income of a single person can dramatically alter the median. Racism in this case has a distorting effect on wealth distribution. But it's certainly not the only means to economic oppression. If you think that there are no poor jewish israelis you're wrong. There's still a pyramidal structure that roughly follows a power law distribution.

You're creating an artificial example where mean and median match. If one more person had 100$ a month, then the median would be 100$ a month. (Oh and btw, the mean and median would be the same if everyone had 5000$ a month, not 4500). In REAL LIFE, wealth distribution roughly follows a power law. The median gives a very good estimate of the wealth of "normal" people, because it isn't biased by the presence of a few super-rich people. Obviously, having more than one quantile would be better.

Anyway, things depend a lot on your definition of wealth. IMHO, a person living in a communist country who has access to clean water, housing, infrastructure for education and transport etc, but has no private property is wealthyer than someone with a wad of 1$ bills dying of cholera in a slum because there's no sewers. It makes much more sense to measure inequality in quality of life than in money terms. Anyway, what do you suggest using? Standard deviation of wealth? Kurtosis?

$2.5 TRILLION might have helped us get from point A to B. Re. 5% CO2 contribution of humans. I could think of lots of things to put in your bathwater where a 1-5% increase would be the diff. between your being uncomfortable & having your skin burned off. The % is irrelevant. There are dangerous thresholds that may not be reached except with our contribution. No matter how small.

I don't know if I like you hypothesis as well as the generally accepted THEORY (definition: a scientifically accepted model for explaining the relation of events in a manner that can predict other events, and which can be proven false in light of new, conflicting data.) however, it is an interesting direction of thought. I will look at Bjorn Lomborgensteinumbrothelvankerikbeinienfrankfurter

Also, I will go read anything you recommend in the spirit of finding the truth... or even altering my perception of it. Is the definition of science 'the refuting of evidence which does not support your beliefs?' No, but rather 'the refuting of your beliefs which are not supported by evidence.' And, Galileo would not have been imprisoned by me, I am not THE Pope, it's a nickname... because I've made so many atheist girls scream, "Oh, God, oh, God, I'm coming!" Only kidding.

Oh, but I do know quite a bit about science. But let's assme I know nothing... all I have to do is consult the most widely-supported conclusion... which would be, "survey says...", global warming is caused by excess CO2. I don't have to know anything about science to understadn that those who do know something have a better theory than those who stand to gain from denying the existence of such a phenomena.

The only knowledge I need is that the money was coerceively removed from other people. The people manageing that money doesn't of how good quality nor how much it will cost because it is not their personal money with emotional association of hardwork and assurance of value in return for their property is given because they don't get anything. I don't need to know the numbers to understand the human mind!

You misuse of grammar and unclear sentence structure detracts from the readability of your comments. First, you are addicted to parenthetical comments and use them too often. Second, you aren't supposed to use numerals in regular speech unless it's a list preceded by a colon. Third, don't use the word "facts" and then give a ballpark figure, like,"100 times more." Fourth, if the carbon dioxide is in the ocean, how could it affect the atmosphere?

jeez.. that might be the best presentaion i have EVER seen

stephen hawking can walk

AlanCom1 - This claim, your statements about CO2 lagging warming, and the rest of such nonsense is handily rebutted by REAL climate scientists at realclimate dot org. I urge you to go there and argue such silliness. Also, please inform me of 1 peer reviewed study that backs up the GW deniers. I cannot find one.

Hey, if you want to make a convoluted argument about the subject, I'll entertain myself with your musing and consider your right to be wrong. However, if you decide to sling mud and call me an idiot then I will not even read your posts, and instead assume that each subsequent one contains the same drivel as your remarks about your belief as to the level of my intelligence.

But, thermal energy is conserved not during the day but during the night and the day there further increases the temperature to well beyond the bounds of what can develop life. Earth's ecosystem has proven to be delicate in the past. That being said, a slight temperature change can have massive consequences on the supply of things I like, such as food.

Taxes are done with the same acts as the common criminal extracts money. I don't have a choice if I don't want violent men with guns comming to my house. The same choice as the mafia leaves me with. That doesn't have any relevance to human behaviour when it comes to the human mindset. It only means the bureaucrats will have almost no limits of how much money they can extract.

No, no, no let's actually keep central Africa from developing, by force! Let's really get involved for our own good. We like savanah safaris and jungle hikes better than commerce with them anyway. Who really wants competition? How about we also teach them to eat their poor, especially iftheir poor ar Irish.

For Alan: The ocean does not emit carbon dioxide; carbon dioxide is released from the process of oxidation inside animals or other single-celled organisms. Thus, if you are calling the oceans and their contents "the ocean" then you are de facto admitting that human beings are also not just in heir environment but a part of it as well.

Thats exactly his point. West look at living standard, good highways, car and disco dancing... he is asking you to look at social developement. Just next to US there is a country -CUBA, which you are trying to destroy for years... compare their socaial developement in 50 years and compare that against america and thats what counts.

Hans Rosling is really a national treasure. =)

Alan, look, don't read what is not there in my posts: I am not insulted, I am however trying to loudly suggest that discussion stay on-topic, e.g., NOT HAVING ANYONE INSULT SOMEONE ELSE. "I always think it's a sign of victory when they move on to the ad hominem." -Christopher Hitchens

And that is the best argument for why we should seriously study our footprint on the natural world and begin our understanding by cutting "greenhouse gas" emissions drastically for a period of time to find the correlation between our actions and the world around us.

reason for this faster social development in developing world is because, 1. Governments (not all) are spending more on healthcare and education. 2. Technology transfer from west + local R&D 3. Low cost - of living, education, transportation, communication, healthcare

The international community agrees that climate change is happening, and if there was a serious scientific argument against the current theory of global warming than the international community would hear it and take it into consideration.

I hope he lives a 100 years, too.

what about canada? like every time he says US it lights up both north and south america, so that includes canada, mexico, brazil, and everything else down there

hey, don't try to help my argument, please,R.77. Seriously, do you even read previous posts? Comprehension level on standardized tests is low for you, right?

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he says 'africa is like europe 100 years ago '- except, africa has aids everywhere right? i wish they had free health care i like this presentation.

So you've managed to notice that people don't like paying taxes. Heyy, now you come to mention it I don't like paying tax.

You are obviously talking about american aid programmes which are a disaster. The EU does it differently and correctly.

It'd be cool if any one has any links to his stats

Check out Gapminder (dot) com this guy's website. They give you acess to all of these interactive graphics, it's fantastic!

At worst your goverment takes your money with a threat of limiting freedom or punishment, not by force. But whatever.

well, he told us that the program is now working via web browser and that the databases are available online. if you want to quantify his claims... search for the link and just do it. the main subject of the talk was the new software that makes it possible for everyone to understand the numbers, he would want you to look the numbers up on your own if he got you interested in it.

I wish all politicians would listen to this and understand as well!

Do some research instead of presuming you were born with all the knowledge you'll ever need.

lol @ 14:17 and getting serious XD

Quite a simplistic model that assumes world economic growth to increase every year.... lol

You keep telling yourself that, meanwhile the empirical evidence shows different results.

Fantastic!!! That is my type of Researcher!!!!

that was amazing...my jaw is on the floor

Incredible! Thank You Hans Rosling

An increase in GDP does not necessarily equal an increase in living standards

too much swedish socialist/communist coloring of his views and outlook...

I disagree. If he makes claims, it's his responsibility to justify them.

well, we will see. keep your eves open, we will get the answer in the next few years.

why is my APES teacher making us watch this in 2020....

It really seems like this is the only RU-vid video where MOST of the commenters aren't posting ideological rubbish and saying stupid shit like "this guy is lying because he's socialist/capitalist". Is it because most people who would watch this video are smarter than the average youtuber or is it because Hans rosling's presentation is so amazing it shuts all the partisan flamebreathers and pessimists down?

yeh he's awesome & i couldn't help but watch his other TED lectures, really fantastic stuff. but i disagree that 'human rights', 'education' & 'environment' aren't as much a 'means' as "economic growth" for the goal of 'culture'. i think that part of the lecture was bullshit. also, why does he think 'education' is just a means & not a goal? it can be, & should be, a lifelong journey, not just a destination for a graduate certificate. & how is 'environment' not a goal?! think of its definition!