The World as 100 People, Glimpsed Over 200 Years of History
History • February 2017 • Views: 1,313
Max Roser, the Oxford economist behind Our World In Data, has devoted his career to spreading a statistically informed view of global development. Chart how things have actually changed over history, he says, and you’ll see that we’ve come a long way.
Roser recently released a commentary on the last two centuries. It sums up world progress withthe following six charts:
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