Factfulness

Professor of International Health Hans Rosling shares what he has learned about what people think they know about global trends about longevity, girls in school, the world's population, poverty, deaths from natural disasters, electrification, and endangered animals; everything people think they know, he tells us, is wrong. In all of these measures of quality of life, things are getting better than we think.

And why are we so wrong about these things? He tells us about ten instincts that greatly distort our perspective, including our tendencies to take in information from media where fear is the driving force behind much reported, to divide the world into two extremes instead of looking at the middle ground, and to believe things are getting worse rather than better.

A fascinating book. Thank you to all who recommended this book to me.