Hans Rosling

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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    It doesn’t make sense anymore
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    So what should we call them instead?
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    Combining middle- and high-income countries, that makes 91 percent of humanity
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    The real figure is 9 percent. Only 9 percent of the world lives in low-income countries
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    If you are skeptical about
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    Once more I explain that “poor developing countries” no longer exist as a distinct group. That there is no gap. Today, most people, 75 percent, live in middle-income countries.
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    Today, most people are in the middle. There is no gap between the West and the rest, between developed and developing, between rich and poor. And we should all stop using the simple pairs of categories that suggest there is.
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    Graphs showing levels of income, or tourism, or democracy, or access to education, health care, or electricity would all tell the same story: that the world used to be divided into two but isn’t any longer.
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    The world has completely changed
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    So I did just that
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