How not to be ignorant about the world by Hans and Ola Rosling

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_and_ola_rosling_how_not_to_be_ignorant_about_the_world#t-1066110

The video linked before is from TED talks and the presenters are Hans Rosling and his son Ola Rosling. Hans is a Global trend in health and a big picture of global development topics. His son is the director and co-founder of the GapminderFoundation. Both are talking about many facts like different statistics depending on the answer, the evolution of the humps of the rich and poor scale and other interesting points:

The first interesting point of the video that shocked me is that in 1900 there was about half a million people who died every year from natural disaster like floods, volcanic eruptions or droughts.  That’s a very high number of deaths just for natural disasters but thanks God this number has been decreasing every year a little more.

The second interesting point in the video is that the last twenty years the percentage of the people living in the extreme poverty is almost halved which is a very, very good new. It’s true that there are still a lot of people living with this limited conditions but it’s fantastic to know that this percentage is decreasing too.

The third part related with the last point is that an eighty percent of the world’s one year old children are vaccinated against measles. Which is not a bad percentage keeping in mind the extreme poverty and his decreasing percentage.

The last and not the less important fact is an experiment by Ola Rosling having in mind the GPD per capita saying that in 2035 the West of the USA will outnumbered in the rich consumer market with a seventy three per cent and that they might live or travel outside North America and Europe.

Those are the main facts that shocked me most. If I have to say which is the aim topic of the video I couldn’t tell you which is it. What I really know is that this is a very interesting video that everyone should see. It’s optimistic and makes you laugh some times. So, I invite you to see it and have a good time.

Here you can see Hans Rosling giving a different speach in TED talks.