Gap Minder the "fact tank"

WHAT IS GAPMINDER?

Gapminder is an independent Swedish foundation with no political, religious or economic affiliations. Gapminder is a fact tank, not a think tank. Gapminder fights devastating misconceptions about global development. Gapminder produces free teaching resources making the world understandable based on reliable statistics. Gapminder promotes a fact-based worldview everyone can understand.  Gapminder collaborates with universities, UN, public agencies and non-governmental organizations.

WHY GAPMINDER EXISTS?

In this video Ola Rosling shows the terrible results from the knowledge surveys Gapminder conducted in 14 rich countries in 2017. LINKS IN THE VIDEO: READ MORE: www.gapm.io/gms17 EXCEL FILE WITH ALL RESULTS www.gapm.io/gms17d TAKE THE TEST: www.gapm.io/test18 FACTFULNESS BOOK: www.gapm.io/ffb SUGGEST FACTS FOR NEXT YEAR: www.gapm.io/gms18p POWERPOINT SLIDES: www.gapm.io/gms17s VIDEO FILE: www.gapm.io/gms17s DISASTER TREND: www.gapm.io/tdisast FOLLOW US: https://www.facebook.com/gapminder.org https://twitter.com/Gapminder https://www.instagram.com/gapminder_org https://www.youtube.com/c/gapminder Help us caption & translate this video!

We humans are born with a craving for fat and sugar. But we are also born with a craving for drama. We pay attention to dramatic stories and we get bored if nothing happens.

Journalists and lobbyists tell dramatic stories. That’s their job. They tell stories about extraordinary events and unusual people. The piles of dramatic stories pile up in people’s minds into an overdramatic worldview and strong negative stress feelings: “The world is getting worse!”, “It’s we vs. them!” , “Other people are strange!”, “The population just keeps growing!” and “Nobody cares!”

For the first time in human history reliable statistics exist. There’s data for almost every aspect of global development. The data shows a very different picture: a world where most things improve; a world that is not divided. People across cultures and religions make decisions based on universal human needs, which are easy to understand. The fast population growth will soon be over. The total number of children in the world has stopped growing. The remaining population growth is an inevitable consequence of large generations born decades back. We live in a globalized world, not only in terms of trade and migration. More people than ever care about global development! The world has never been less bad. Which doesn’t mean it’s perfect. The world is far from perfect.

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The dramatic worldview has to be dismantled, because it is stressful and wrong. It leads to bad focus and bad decisions. We know this because we have measured the global ignorance among the world’s top decision makers in public and private sector. Their global ignorance is high, just like the ignorance of journalists, activists, teachers and the general public. This has nothing to do with intelligence. It’s a problem of factual knowledge. Facts don’t come naturally. Drama and opinions do. Factual knowledge has to be learned. We need to teach global facts in schools and in corporate training. This is an exciting problem to work on and we invite all our users to join the Gapminder movement for global factfulness. The problem can be solved, because the data exists.

Facts vs. Misconceptions

1) US & Mexico

When Mr. Donald Trump graduated in 1968, Mexico was way behind the US. This shows the catch-up that has happened.
After the tragic crisis in Syria, more than half of all Syrians have left their homes. Where are they?
The character of an Ebola outbreak is that it will start slowly, and it will end slowly.
Average global temperature in the last 12 months was higher than ever measured before. DATA SOURCE http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/global DOWNLOAD OFFLINE http://goo.gl/fprRAA DOWNLOAD OFFLINE ON ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/se/podcast/hans-roslings-factpod/id923417704?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/gapminder.org LICENSE -- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Please copy and redistribute this film in any medium or format You must include the following attribution to Gapminder: "Free material from WWW.GAPMINDER.ORG" Full license text http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ PRODUCED BY Max Orward The Gapminder Foundation http://www.gapminder.org Help us caption & translate this video!
Best time ever for children is now! Never before did more than 95% live beyond their 5th birthday.

6) Vaccinations

Data Sources

https://www.who.int/gho/en/

7) Human Rights & Democracy

Data Sources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNX31t7Cees

In this video, made for the Oslo freedom Forum 2009, Hans Rosling talks about the difficulty in measuring progress in Human Rights in the form of comparable numerical statistics. He also shows the surprisingly weak correlation between existing estimates for democracy and socio-economic progress.
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