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Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC

BBC · 11.5M views · 2010-11-26 · 4:48

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Overview

Hans Rosling uses augmented-reality animation to show 200 countries over 200 years in four minutes, built from 120,000 data points. It tracks life expectancy and income to show the world's development.

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HN commenters send it as a short antidote to cynicism, showing long-term global progress and the shrinking gap between rich and poor countries.

Recommended by 10 HN people across 12 months · HN mentions 2010–2023

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What people said

sethammons · 2023-06 · Strong recommendation

Spend five minutes and watch this. Amazing presentation my Hans Rausling, economist, on rising global property. [VIDEO]

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SeanAnderson · 2023-05 · Strong recommendation

It's admittedly a 12 year old YouTube, but I always liked watching this when I was feeling especially cynical about the overall trajectory of the world: [VIDEO]

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somethoughts · 2023-01 · Strong recommendation

This is just personal but anytime I feel similar to the OP, I watch something by Hans Rosling [1] or Anna Rosling [2]. Although 10 and 5 years old respectively, I feel the general sentiment is still true - that human progress is slow, in the background and might be ebbing and flowing in your specific sub-population. And when compared to the present, media narrative driven present its hard to see the improvements happening across the global population. It helps me put stuff in perspective - of course mileage may var (and maybe it's just helping me delude myself into getting out a funk but it works!). [1] Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - [VIDEO] [2] See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income - Anna Rosling Rönnlund [LINK]

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