Really Understanding the World

Seeing the world develop through bubble animation from Hans Rosling makes health and income statistics mesmerizingly enjoyable.

How an Ignorance Survey Will Make Us Smarter

To improve policy making for major global issues like health, population, education and poverty, Hans Rosling uses a survey to see where we are misinformed.

One Way That the “Poor Beat the Rich”

In just 8 minutes, Hans Rosling shows us that, with child mortality rates, the developing world is making more progress than we might expect. With his captivating “gapminder” approach, he creates a race between Sweden in 1900 and Bangladesh in…