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Uplifting fact: Over the last 38 years, the number of people living in extreme poverty has reduced by an average of over 100,000 per day.
In 1800, there was not a single country on the planet with a life expectancy of over 40 years. Today, there's not a single country where the life expectancy is under 40 years.
Literacy rates: 200 years ago, around 12% of the world's population could read and write. Today, only around 12% of the world's population can't read and write.
Poverty, malnutrition, illiteracy and child mortality are all falling faster than at any other time in human history
'Life expectancy at birth has increased more than twice as much in the last century as it did in the previous 200,000 years.' https://brightblue.org.uk/johan-norberg-the-world-is-better-than-you-think/
'A child born today is more likely to reach retirement age than his forebears were to live to their fifth birthday.' https://brightblue.org.uk/johan-norberg-the-world-is-better-than-you-think/
