RIP, Hans. Sweden's famous statistician, Hans Rosling, died about a year ago, and he is missed. Entertaining, lovable, and smart, he "made it his life’s goal to challenge misconceptions about human development with data."
As a professor of global health, he discovered that his Swedish students had the idea that the people of earth were getting sicker and poorer. But the opposite is more accurate. He and his son started an organization to "fight devastating ignorance about the world."
His website is Gapminder. Data exists about the health and wealth of people in the countries of the world over the years, and he made visual graphs using those facts to show human progress in those countries.
Here is Hans with his graph showing how each country has increased its average lifespan and wealth over the years since 1860:
(rising wealth cont'd tomorrow)
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