Hans Rosling
description: Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund · 2 Apr 2018 · 288pp · 85,073 words
About the Author Hans Rosling was a medical doctor, professor of international health, and renowned public educator. He was an adviser to the World Health Organization and UNICEF, and he
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data set. gapm.io/depov. Gapminder[10]. Household per capita income—v1. gapm.io/ihhinc. Gapminder[11]. “Don’t Panic—End Poverty.” BBC documentary featuring Hans Rosling. Directed by Dan Hillman. Wingspan Productions, September 2015. Gapminder[12]. Legal slavery data—v1. gapm.io/islav. Gapminder[13]. HIV,newly infected—v2. Historic prevalence
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Fill-Up. gapm.io/mmfu. Gapminder[30]. Family size by income level. gapm.io/efinc. Gapminder[31]. Protected Nature—v1. gapm.io/protnat. Gapminder[32]. Hans Rosling. “Swine flu alert! News/Death ratio: 8176.” Video. May 8, 2009. gapm.io/sftbn. Gapminder[33]. Average age at first marriage. gapm.io/fmarr. Gapminder
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stats you’ve ever seen.” Filmed February 2006 in Monterey, CA. TED video, 19:50. https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen gapm.io/xtedros. . “Hans Rosling at World Bank: Open Data.” Filmed May 22, 2010, in Washington, DC. World Bank video, 41:54. https://www
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?v=5OWhcrjxP-E.gapm.io/xwbros. . “The magic washing machine.” Filmed December 2010 in Washington, DC. TEDWomen video, 9:15. https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine gapm.io/tedrosWa. Rosling, Hans, Yngve Hofvander, and Ulla-Britt Lithell. “Children’s death and population growth.” Lancet 339 (February
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Statistics, Compendium of Tourism Statistics and data files, World Tourism Organization, 2017. gapm.io/xwb1713. World Bank[14]. “Beyond Open Data: A New Challenge from Hans Rosling.” Live GMT, June 8, 2015. gapm.io/xwb1714. World Bank[15]. Khokhar, Tariq. “Should we continue to use the term ‘developing world’?” The Data blog
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Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003. . The Post-American World. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Hans Rosling Hans was born in Uppsala, Sweden, in 1948. He studied statistics and medicine at Uppsala University and public health at St. John’s Medical College
After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People
by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso · 7 Jul 2025 · 264pp · 96,174 words
. What about education, female empowerment, and deaths from natural disasters and climate change? In Dean’s undergraduate class, students take a poll Dean borrows from Hans Rosling’s 2018 book Factfulness. Dean hands out the questionnaire in the first minutes of the first class day, before going over the syllabus and before
Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations
by Garr Reynolds · 14 Aug 2010
to see the areas of poor performance more quickly? The Future of Data Presentation One of the masters of displaying data during live presentations is Hans Rosling, a public health professor from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. With his amazing ability to unveil the beauty of statistics, Rosling has become a
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to understand how beautiful it is. But often that’s how we present statistics: we just show the notes, we don’t play the music. Hans Rosling gets involved with the data at TED 09 in Long Beach, California. Let your data speak As a presenter, what sets Rosling apart is his
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, we need people who make the instruments, and we need those who play.” Gapminder was founded in Stockholm by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Hans Rosling in early 2005. Trendalyzer, the Gapminder software, makes it possible to unveil the beauty of a statistical time series by converting “boring numbers” into engaging
The Naked Presenter: Delivering Powerful Presentations With or Without Slides
by Garr Reynolds · 29 Jan 2010
program, demo a web site, and so on. However, you should also move away from that lectern when you do not have to be there. Hans Rosling, a doctor, researcher, and presenter, is extraordinary at doing this. When he needs to pull up some data or start the Gapminder program, he will
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is able to engage his audiences with the visualizations of data in part because he removes the barriers by often moving away from the lectern. Hans Rosling removes the barriers and gets involved with the data, making things clear for the audience. (Photo: Stefan Nilsson.) Performing demos If you are performing a
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answer. 152 The Naked Presenter Wow! eBook <WoweBook.Com> It’s Not the Numbers, It’s What They Mean I’m a huge fan of Hans Rosling, the public health professor from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and one of the cofounders of Gapminder (www.gapminder.org). Rosling is the Zen master
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Rosling shows that it is not enough just to show data—what matters is the meaning of the data. Statistics tell a story. Photo of Hans Rosling by Stefan Nilsson. The way the Gapminder software displays data is compelling and clarifies the data while bringing the viewer in for a closer look
You Are What You Read
by Jodie Jackson · 3 Apr 2019 · 145pp · 41,453 words
in the press can give the appearance that we are going backwards, and most of us are left believing that the world is getting worse. Hans Rosling, a Swedish statistician and renowned public speaker, founded an organisation called Gapminder with his son Ola Rosling and Ola’s wife Anna, which addresses the
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-2017-safest-year-aviation-history/ 10 Rosling, H., ‘The best stats you’ve ever seen’, Ted.com, 2018, available at: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen 11 Patterson, T., The Vanishing Voter, Vintage, New York, 2003, p. 93. BAD NEWS SELLS Bad news
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, Science, Humanism and Progress by Steven Pinker Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund A Force for Good: How the American News Media Have Propelled Positive Change by Rodger Streitmatter The Information
The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century
by Rodrigo Aguilera · 10 Mar 2020 · 356pp · 106,161 words
in this ecosystem are harder to pin down and don’t fall neatly within these two groups. These include the (recently deceased) TED Talk celebrity Hans Rosling, who mastered the art of using charts and other visual aids to seduce his audiences with optimism, or Oxford economist Max Roser, whose website Our
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omnicidal tendencies would feel compelled to do such a thing. Pinker may exalt his Enlightenment heroes with a zeal typically reserved for religious icons, but Hans Rosling, the late Swedish physician-turned-TED Talk star, took the supposedly unobjectionable rationality of optimism to the level of self-help. It’s not enough
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would rarely fail but they would not mount the extra effort needed to surpass their ordinary performances”.30 Perhaps “factfulness” isn’t as important as Hans Rosling would have us believe. The claim that seeing the glass half-full is advantageous appears to hold true for individuals. But what is good for
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Norberg stating that “a child born today is more likely to reach retirement age than his forebears were to live to their fifth birthday”.25 Hans Rosling claims his favorite chart is one which plots the health and wealth of Zambia in 2017 next to that of Sweden in 1921, implying that
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they fall ill or lose their jobs.38 The myth of the global middle-class clashes squarely with the reality of non-convergence. Returning to Hans Rosling’s comparison of the Zambia of today and the Sweden of 1921 that was mentioned in Chapter Three, he may have been surprised to know
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whereby 80% of effects come from 20% of causes. The rule is extensively fetishized in the management self-help literature and not unsurprisingly, also by Hans Rosling. 46 “Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-Mails and Cannibalistic Culture that Felled a Tech Giant”, Vanity Fair, 3 Jul. 2012, https://www.vanityfair
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words
to many discussions in part II, the section on progress. I am grateful as well to Marian Tupy of HumanProgress and to Ola Rosling and Hans Rosling of Gapminder, two other invaluable resources for understanding the state of humanity. Hans was an inspiration, and his death in 2017 a tragedy for those
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not entombed in dry reports but are displayed in gorgeous Web sites, particularly Max Roser’s Our World in Data, Marian Tupy’s HumanProgress, and Hans Rosling’s Gapminder. (Rosling learned that not even swallowing a sword during a 2007 TED talk was enough to get the world’s attention.) The case
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of zeroes into the average. The answer for 2015 is 71.4 years.1 How close is that to your guess? In a recent survey Hans Rosling found that less than one in four Swedes guessed that it was that high, a finding consistent with the results of other multinational surveys of
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’t reduce population growth for long. They disproportionately kill children and the elderly, and when conditions improve, the survivors quickly replenish the population.13 As Hans Rosling put it, “You can’t stop population growth by letting poor children die.”14 Looking at the second curve, we discover that the food supply
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spent on laundry alone fell from 11.5 hours a week in 1920 to 1.5 in 2014.14 For returning “washday” to our lives, Hans Rosling suggests, the washing machine deserves to be called the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution.15 Figure 17-3: Utilities, appliances, and housework, US, 1900
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worse. Kelly offers “protopia,” the pro- from progress and process. Others have suggested “pessimistic hopefulness,” “opti-realism,” and “radical incrementalism.”54 My favorite comes from Hans Rosling, who, when asked whether he was an optimist, replied, “I am not an optimist. I’m a very serious possibilist.”55 PART III REASON, SCIENCE
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the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 15. Not to be missed: H. Rosling, “The Magic Washing Machine,” TED talk, Dec. 2010, https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine. 16. Good Housekeeping, vol. 55, no. 4, Oct. 1912, p. 436, quoted in Greenwood, Seshadri, & Yorukoglu 2005. 17. From The
The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations
by David Pilling · 30 Jan 2018 · 264pp · 76,643 words
and transformative economic growth could be. * * * — Not too long before he died in February 2017, I discussed the issue of growth in poor countries with Hans Rosling, a Swedish academic. Rosling was that rarest of things, a pop-star statistician.16 A master of the TED talk—in which he used dynamic
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minuses of indexes. Because the thing about an index is that you can put in it almost anything that takes your fancy. It is what Hans Rosling, the Swedish statistician, calls “GDP in the age of Excel.” Almost everything in the GPI is a value judgment. Booze is an example. Alcohol in
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Out of a Job,” Financial Times, May 7, 2014: www.ft.com. 15. Rajiv Kumar of the Centre for Policy Research, Delhi. 16. Sam Roberts, “Hans Rosling, Swedish Doctor and Pop-Star Statistician, Dies at 68,” New York Times, February 9, 2017. 17. He objected because he said his observations were based
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kinds of alternative calculations.” 4. Jonathan Soble, “Japan, Short on Babies, Reaches a Worrisome Milestone,” New York Times, June 2, 2017: www.nytimes.com. 5. Hans Rosling projected the world’s population would peak at about 11 billion in 2100, when he estimated there would be 1 billion people in the Americas
Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid
by Meredith. Angwin · 18 Oct 2020 · 376pp · 101,759 words
to encourage very poor people not to use coal—well, those wealthy people are going to have a problem. I would recommend that they watch Hans Rosling’s wonderful video “The Magic Washing Machine,” about the different types of energy poverty.232 When you have enough electricity to run a washing machine
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(sorry, no electricity early in the morning) could not help him achieve his goals. (See chapter 37 on Distributed Generation.) In his amazing book, Factfulness, Hans Rosling and his son and daughter-in-law trace the various levels of poverty and energy poverty. It shows how people’s lives get better as
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19, 2015; reprinted in Scientific American, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-trumps-solar-in-india/#googDisableSync/. 232 Hans Rosling, “The magic washing machine” (video), TED, December 2010, https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine?language=en. 233 https://www.iso-ne.com/committees/industry-collaborations/consumer-liaison. 234
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coal, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, July 25, 2012. Listed with goodreads (website), https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16192018-thorium. Figure used with permission. 277 Hans Rosling, with Ala Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, Flatiron
An Optimist's Tour of the Future
by Mark Stevenson · 4 Dec 2010 · 379pp · 108,129 words
we continue to raise food production ad infinitum as our population continues to grow? The good news is we won’t have to. The statistician Hans Rosling from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute tells a story of how many of his students wonder if keeping the poor alive is really such a good
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way matches up to the biodiversity lost when ancient rainforests are destroyed. This teeming metropolis I’m walking through is therefore an engine of renewal. Hans Rosling’s students are dead wrong. Those ‘poor children’ must live, move to the city and prosper – and in doing so they will, in just a
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means speakers need to hone their presentations, and because the Internet audience is millions there is no room for academic long-windedness. In 2007, statistician Hans Rosling (whose thoughts on population I’d considered while walking the packed streets of Malé) delivered a blistering attack on the concept of ‘developed’ versus ‘developing
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’s Edge Foundation. Both come highly recommended, but be warned, you might lose a few days. Also, pop over to www.gapminder.com and let Hans Rosling show you how to make statistics interesting and change the way you understand the world as a result. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS When I started writing this book
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
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Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought
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Not the End of the World
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How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
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More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – and What Happens Next
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Beautiful Visualization
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Presentation Zen
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