In honor of world statistics day, a few statistics about the world.
Firstly, Hans Rosling’s classic lecture about how the developing world has been catching up over the last few decades:
Secondly, a more recent lecture from Hans and Ola Rosling:
Finally, here is a list of mostly salient statistics from Tariq Khokhar (published earlier today) on how far we still have to go in terms of measuring and improving global health and access to basic services.
(You may safely ignore that last bit about how statisticians have the “sexiest job” of this decade. I’m quite confident that it was made up on the spot, just like 80% of all statistics.)
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