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It was the last 200 years that changed the world. In 1809 all countries of the world had a life expectancy under 40 years and an income per person less than 3000 dollar per year. Since then the world has changed but it was not until after the second world war that most countries started to improve.
For the first time, Gapminder can now visualize change in life expectancy and income per person over the last two centuries. In this Gapminder video, Hans Rosling shows you how all the countries of the world have developed since 1809 – 200 years ago.
The interactive animations and corresponding documentation are freely available at www.gapminder.org/world.
I AM HAPPY TO BE THE FIRST PERSON TO POST A MESSAGE HERE. THIS SHOULD BE SHOWN TO EVERYBODY ON THE PLANET. THERE IS SO MUCH TO SAY BUT I FIRST HEARD OF YOU THROUGH MY INFATUATION WITH TED.COM WHERE I SAW YOUR TALK QUICKLY GOOGLING YOU AND WATCHING YOUR TALK TO THE OECD. I LIKE THE PIANO ANALOGY. THANK YOU AND THANK YOU MORE FOR GIVING US THE WONDERFUL TOOL TRENDANALYSER
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This is brilliant, compelling and amazingly well visualized. If there is power in information to move the world into action, as I believe there is, Gapminder is putting it on steroids!
Congratulations!
Thanks for posting another thoroughly thought provoking video. I love this visual representation of statistics and the work you’ve done here on Gapminder is so important. Thank you so much for sharing it with us all.
simply amazing. thank you for all your wonderful videos. they have certainly blown my mind and opened it at the same time. can’t wait to see your next!!!
This is fantastic stuffs.This is what information and knowledge should be-made easily accessible to everyone to see and evaluate.These data should be the backdrop by which all the narratives in the corporate(?popular) media should be judged by.
The socioeconomic data should parallel the (military)political narratives to get the full picture of the world humanity.
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Hey i’m am an Indian and I know for sure that the life expectancies were over 40 during the 19th and 29th centuries, despite all the butchering by the albino albions. May I know the source of ur statistics.
I love what you are doing and seen from all kinds of scientific views this inexorably explains or rather converges what is happening currently in all scientific branches: It’s that there is something majorly wrong with the way we conceive the importance of our individual perception of reality…
Therefore I am convinced that I’m doing the right thing by trying to convince people in my social proximity that they will eventually have to alter their current views…there is no other way…is there?
To give you some perspective please check out the “Kardashev”-Theory on Wikipedia or elsewhere…it’s been there for 45 years so you will have a hard time missing it!
ENJOY!
Very intelligent perspective in the video. Stunning graphics.
Good point in Clara’s reply about life expectancy. Oral tradition is usually biased. My family in India had people living to be 70-80 even in the early 20th century. But, few people remember the dead infants.
I think this tool tells the story as it is and brings out most amazing conclusions. Thanks for this neat tool.
I am a Hans fan.
Thank you, industrial revolution and empirical science standards.
Fact based vision of the world is the basic approach to many problems and situations we encounter; unfortunately the media and governments are ideological powers which have large conflicts of interest and avoid to promote fact based analysis of policy and governement decisions.
Economic growth is the major determinant of health and LE and not the system of care. That’s perhaps important for all of us and especially US citizens.
However strong economic growth put a terrible strength on natural resources especially in food systems and non renewable energies which are at the present time far more dense in joules than the renewable ones.
Does gapminder will release some forecasting videos about that?
Thank you very much to share your vision.
Hans – Thank you for sharing this video with the world. This powerful, graphical view of the last 200 years has changed my “worldview”. I have posted your video on my blog, shared it on Twitter. I hope this helps share your message. Have a great day. Regards, Tom
Great Stuff!
really interesting. and it’s great that it’s so easy to grasp as it’s so visual.
I do think it’s problematic though that it’s just using nations. He mentioned it: Differences within countries cannot be accounted for. So what if 20% of the population gets richer and healthier and the rest stays the same. Then this is pretty misleading… (i’m not having any specific country in mind, i’m just saying…)
still a great tool! thank you!
Amazing accurate data from all stakeholders in 1809!
Dear Gowtham,
Thank you for your input. Our data for the 19th century are of course very rough, sometimes only educated guesses. We are always happy to get references to sources new to us. Most of our historical data are based on an extensive bibliography made by history professor James Riley (http://www.lifetable.de/RileyBib.htm). You can find our documentation of data at http://www.gapminder.org/gapminder-world/documentation/ ; including an overview of how we compiled data for life expectancy http://www.gapminder.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/gapminder-documentation-004-life-expectancy-200812182.pdf
and a spreadsheet with the sources used for each individual estimate at http://www.gapminder.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/life-expectancy-reference-spreadsheet-20090204-xls-format.xls
The data for India 1800-1880s is an extrapolation of data for later years, as we’ve done for most countries. Data for 1880s-1950 come from Das Gupta, Prithwis. 1971. “Estimation of Demographic Measures for India, 1881-1961, Based on Census Age Distributions,” Population Studies 25: 395-414 (through Riley’s bibliography) and from Malaker, C.R. and Guha Roy, S., Reconstruction of Indian Life Tables for 1901-81 and Projections for 1981-2001, Demography Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, July 1986, Calcutta, p. 1-38. (the latter can be found at Human Lifetable Database, http://www.lifetable.de ). This data shows life expectancy for India as starting to improve in the 1920s from a low level of ~24-25 (which can be assumed to vary greatly year from year, but we don’t have data on this). From 1950 onward it is UN data.
If you know a better data source, we would be happy if you could email us a reference.
Average Life Expectancy at birth is not a measure of how old people can get. When life expectancy is below 40, this is always related to a very high mortality of children under five, which has a strong effect on the average expected life span. People who survive childhood mortality and premature adult mortality due to disease or other causes, can still reach a respectable age. Life expectancy can of course also be very different in different population groups.