This is one of my favorite infographics. A lot of people underestimate just how much life has improved over the last two centuries: https://t.co/djavT7MaW9 https://t.co/kuII7j4AuW
This is one of my favorite infographics. A lot of people underestimate just how much life has improved over the last two centuries: https://t.co/djavT7MaW9 https://t.co/kuII7j4AuW
global child mortality is at an all-time low: less than 5 per cent of children die before reaching adulthood.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
This impressive achievement is even more noteworthy if expressed in a way that accounts for the intervening large-scale increase of the global population, from about 2.5 billion people in 1950 to 7.7 billion in 2019.
Vaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
rising food production reduced the malnutrition rate from 2 in 3 people in 1950 to 1 in 11 by 2019.[4]
Vaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
During the 180 years from 1820 to 2000, world output per person increased roughly eleven times, leading to an equally dramatic fall in the global rate of extreme poverty—from around 90 percent in 1820 to roughly 10 percent as of 2015.