Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?

[lightandbeautiful]

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[Gytaz]

This guy is a legend!

[zephyriffic]

The reason why Singapore is a developing country is due to the fact that she wants to be one! It pays a lot to be of the developing world; having to contribute to humanitarian aid, etc.

[leatme]

THIS IS CRAP! (crumples paper and throws it with disgust unto the floor) best part of the talk, LOL

[waqasahmed939]

Hans Rosling is awesome you know

[MrPrankmastergeneral]

Care ful the has the +1 two handed staff.

[loginlover]

I like this guy, he helps restore my faith in mankind after seeing the garbage that passes for news here

[waterloo995]

he is the reason I started watching TED

[mcbrave15]

I would like to see a psychological tendency of violence in all these people, who are making it to the higher medical care and more education and life expectancy. Are they ending up happier; creating a better world and fusion with the environment. Or more neurotic and psycopath people surviving, creating addiction to the superficial environment and destroying the natural resources.... ¿?

[xjustamem0ryx]

@mcbrave15

the latter I'm afraid.

[SailorBarsoom]

@xjustamem0ryx

The world is much less violent than it used to be.

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[gatzu86]

He makes me proud to be a Swede.

[waqasahmed939]

@gatzu86

Id be proud to be a fruit too

[nogood510]

I like the end stating the importance of stabilizing the world population. We ABSOLUTELY need to make it a priority if we're going to have any chance of tackling environmental issues in the long run.

[bonjeano]

awesome lecture!

[messi9991]

hans rosling is a legend.

fact 

[wiseorwiseazz]

the icon for the child mortality rate is a cyclops

[john133169]

Haha hes is brilliant

He aounds like dexter for dexter's labritory:P

[EclecticSceptic]

He'd actually make you think you wanted to be a statistician.

[AWilliamster]

Absolutely brilliant!

[goodgoodgoodful]

"China comes into the western box..." (starting from 12:22)

sounds like football commentator LOL

[goodgoodgoodful]

statistics majors must watch this as an encouragement. their work is very important to analyze, then comprehend the facts more objectively.

[techn0scho0lbus]

I want to hear more about "Gender" He was careful not to say "gender equality" The UN doesn't care about women's struggle in the muslim world.

[ODAC25thKA]

" singapore-they have the lowest child mortality in the world,.....

Qatar- Richest country in the world ....

this is crap." HAHA FTW!

[roidroid]

yet another typically awesome Rosling talk

[kainniak1]

hey =D

[cristoretornebiblia]

Fantastic, its people like this that inspire me to join in and help them fight for the greater good of Humanity

[victor1eremita]

sophistry.

[PeeeU]

I wish he was my sociology teacher.

[extendetBG]

This really is a good news. Thank u TED!

[kinsmed]

This is a study. TED is about development.

There are a thousand places we can get lectures.

[globalbankfraud]

Doesn't mention the expected Child Mortality & Birth Defect rates now the US has filled up Iraq with Depleted Uranium. Or the 20% higher rates of having children with Autism for returning Service Men due to their exposure to D.U.

[globalbankfraud]

TED Prozac for Middle Class Intelligentsia

[DAntiprodukt]

@globalbankfraud Small-minded bomb thrower.

[vagu14]

@globalbankfraud better than football...

[jasin95]

@vagu14

wat

[khatack]

This guy is great :D

[xaleus]

Great talk!

[SimonSilva01]

fantastic

[LookieHippie]

Very well. I respect this guy. He is so passionate, I love it. A great talk.

[neobattle2]

i love his accent.

[tarsanth]

Another fantastic talk by Hans. If only more people could see these.

[Cl1mateAware]

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Any plan from the U.N. scares me, because i dont know their real goal.

[yourtube20061]

always makes stat look so interesting !!

[thankqwerty]

A man with true passion and compassion, just for that he deserves all the admiration.

[RedeemedByGodsLove]

he's a great speaker.

I love his accent haha.... I just want to listen to his voice more lol!

[jackywushengzong]

Look at that crowd, looking all snobby and unethusiastic, especially the guy at the lower left 15:26.

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@jackywushengzong haha, power applause ftw

[neurocrater]

tough crowd... ted audiences used to give standing ovations to practically every speaker

[t3tsuyaguy1]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh......that's good stuff.

[hardcoded]

Master. Numbers are nothing without context.

[zydomason]

awesome.

[UHeinrich]

brilliant!!!

[Kargoneth]

Hans! Awesome.

I love Hans

[NilNeiro]

this guy is a rock star

[thepianoaddict]

lol pointing stick ftw.

[xjustamem0ryx]

angreh man wit a stik!

[jackster1990]

heh hes a good speaker :)

[halberthawkins]

Mr. Joseph Ratzinger should watch this and learn from it.

[tneremil1]

This guy is awesome.

[ExclusiveManual]

This guy must be a part time sports commentator.

[JPO1618]

I love Hans Rosling so much! Download his software. You can make amazing graphs like he does. Hans has to be the most entertaining statistician in the world. Thanks to Vogter2100 for the link..i missed this one.

[afaultytoaster]

wow, that was amazingly hopeful. he's a good speaker

[Truthiness231]

Hans is slated to be one of the greatest people few know about... what he's done for statistics - to take them out of their confusing forms and put them in full light - is synonymous with curing cancer ^.^

[flapflapflap4]

i love this guy

[DJGelbart]

Hans Rosling is awesome.

[humanist7117]

Wonderful! Facts skillfully explained with the spark of enthusiasm!

[briansmobile1]

9:56 "We want others to be better than we were." -Great attitude and motives.

[caviper1]

I like this guy a lot.

[hughtub]

Meanwhile, Europe needs to start having MORE babies. They have a low infant mortality rate, but still not enough to sustain their population. Importing foreigners isn't sustainable, it only leads to peaceful cultural/ethnic genocide (death of a unique genotype).

[dismutased]

I find this guy's lectures FASCINATING. More please!

[profjaykay]

old guys with lots of energy are awesome

[geodesicks]

Educating women is the solution. It is how we are going to civilize our "religion of peace", how we are going to cap the population explosion, how we are going to rein in warring nations.

[RedBSantana]

Tell 'em Hans "There are no developing countries!" I want people who see this to correct anyone you hear say 'third-world county.' The shit is outdated and if you do your research an overwhelming majority of the countries labeled as such fit more in should be termed middle or low-income nations. Like Hans said Qatar is banking, I'd even say they are most defiantly a high-income nation.

check out gapminder;org good shit!

[Aresftfun]

I loved this guy's other TED talk. It was awesome. This one it good too.

[un000890]

wait, science and modernization are supposed to be destroying the world. great, now jesus is never gona come back.

[Aresftfun]

@un000890 Yea...about that...

[yobhsiFehT]

I like this, just a couple implications I DON'T like:

1. Big families = bad. I'm from a small family, I only want a small family, but that's PERSONAL CHOICE. Govt cannot/MUST not mandate family size, or that'll only turn into infanticide, driving child mortality back UP.

2. Educated women are less inclined to be mothers. Or in other words, uneducated women just lie around making babies. This further implies that housewives are ignorant, and if THAT'S not degrading to women, I don't know what is!

[AguzSuiCaedere]

@yobhsiFehT Dude, that's mess up:

1- With big families, is the matter that you can't properly maintain many kids with low income. That's why he talk about family planing (you should watch the "Thailand and mr. condom" TED talk for some nice information about how that work)

2- Educated woman can have a better care of their children, and have a better chance of successful pregnancy and taking care of their child health during childhood. And even sustaining single parent homes. Think about it.

[JaksProductions]

@yobhsiFehT Mortality rate is not affected by the amount of children who are born. I mean, is there a different percentage of apples in 10 out of 100 than there is of 100 out of 1000?

[cnmaster01]

@yobhsiFehT 1.Bigger families than income can support= bad

2.educated women are less inclined to have children that they cannot support, implying that educated housewives should be living in a comfortable income level.

it just so happens that most people have low economic freedom

[blesbaupin]

@yobhsiFehT You are stupid.

[yobhsiFehT]

@blesbaupin

I'm sorry, EVERYONE else who replied to my comment did so w/ a rational argument. I'm not even offended by your response b/c it's so ridiculous.

[ArcadianQueen]

@yobhsiFehT educated men are also less likely to have unwanted pregnancies as well. I am a woman and a feminist who does not view facts as "sexist." They are merely reality markers to assess where we really are. If we don't know where we are, how can we get where we are going?

As for large families: "If you can't feed your baby, then don't have a baby. And don't think, 'maybe,' if you can't feed your baby." - Michael Jackson, Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', Thriller

[yobhsiFehT]

@ArcadianQueen @cnmaster01 @JaksProductions @AguzSuiCaedere

I said those things were *implications* I thought I detected - as in, UNDERLYING. I don't think those two points are like the guy's credo, and I don't they're the reality of the situation. I just think they're logical extremes that could occur in the "Western" (i.e., "developed"; i.e., "more furtunate") countries. Of course, don't have a family you can't afford, and educated people will be more likely to raise healthy families. I agree.

[56jmoney]

@ArcadianQueen It's not just about the food supply and being able to feed your child. It's also about uncontrollable variables such as disease and warfare. The survival of humans depends on the amount of offspring that survive. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that, if you know many of your children are likely to die, you should have more children.

[Th3Wab3]

that was standing ovation worthy...

[tomroutledge]

I love Hans Rosling.

[sparrow111260]

I hope this is at least funny

[sparrow111260]

Certainly, is better than many of the recent TED talks. This, at least, has some decent substance.

[silvercoin1111]

thank you for the good news, for your energy and passion...not everything seems so bad:)

[KaptainKuantum]

This guy is a proper scientist; he has the correct accent and he's frustratidly ripping up pieces of paper! Like in the highest terms. Kuantum.

[morthim]

"you have to end ...gender" :o

[lishun]

some much-needed good news indeed!

[ShadowCloud143]

"this is a bunch of crap!" HAHAHAHAHAHA

[DeadWhiteButterflies]

I love how he talks so passionatelt about it, and rightly so! It's true people need to realise that this is a modern world, and not every country that isn't so-called "western" is somehow seen as living under the conditions of a gulag. I mean it's to the point that politicians still think that way. It's a common prejudice that remains unchallenged, and that's a real shame.

What a brilliant, passionate man though. Good on him! :)

[Silkspine]

faved and subbed.

[kalaway]

I absolutely Love how jazzed he is about statistics :D

[Athaeus]

How about the UN sets a goal to end overpopulation!?

[Sleeplesscam]

I'm fearful for the world if so many put so much faith in the abstractions that is statistics. The worldbank & IMF have done so much already to hurt developing countries like you wouldn't believe.

The arrogance of one's assumed ability to help, goes unquestioned as we adore one's desire to help.

But to hit you with a sledgehammer whenever you make a mistake, noble as my intention might be, it will detract from the quality of your life considerably.

Statistics (here) begets tunnelvision.

[Kaltblutsen]

@Sleeplesscam "Statistics (here) begets tunnelvision.

Sleeplesscam vor 25 Minuten" Well, as far as I know, statistics is the only way to get an appropiate overview over millions of people. Sure, you will always loose some detials, but this seems necessary to get an understanable representation of too much information.

[Sleeplesscam]

@Kaltblutsen

absolutely, it's a necessary evil. However, the decision on which details to omit is usually the one where things go south. For instance, lets take the problem of child mortality, it's a moral wrong yes. But in Brazil there are communities where children are left for dead by their mothers if they are deemed un-fit for life. This is cruel, and wrong in our perception, but for them it's a matter of survival; they do not have enough foodstuffs to go around.

[Sleeplesscam]

@Kaltblutsen

One should properly understand the phenomena before one tries to 'cure' or solve them. Unfortunately, the practice is one of arrogance.

Too often have we projected our norms onto others, naturally assuming that they would fit, ignoring the local conditions resulting in a even greater problematic situation; but no worries; "as long as we get our numbers, than we can say it's a success!" if only the child mortality goes down, no matter what further consequences it brings < TunnelV

[Kaltblutsen]

@Sleeplesscam Sorry for the late answer, but actually i aggree with you ... so there is no nead to rush an angry counterargument :). Sometimes there is some strage faith in numbers, just because they are numbers. But it's impossible to make up a rule when this faith is inappropriate and when not. At least it's nice to see that my preconceptions were wrong.

[humanfly78]

How can 16 people thumb-down this video? Do they LIKE child mortality? Or, as I suspect, are they religious fundamentalists that disagree with female emancipation (for certain sects) and/or family planning (for others).

[hughtub]

@humanfly78 Child mortality is necessary if the child is non-viable on its own, such as Down Syndrome, spina bifida, or other severe mental/physical deformities. Increasing birth rates of healthy and intelligent children is more sustainable than using resources to save babies with severe abnormalities. The key is to lower birthrates in the "3rd world", but increase them in the 1st world. It's unsustainable that all of Europe has below replacement birth rates.

[humanfly78]

@hughtub Smells like eugenics to me.

Also, you're very short-sighted on the causes of child mortality; the reports don't really focus on things like inherited defects, but preventable causes of infant death like disease, war, murder, those kind of things.

Still, feel free to vote down the video because you don't want African countries to produce healthy, long-living children.

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@humanfly78 i wpuld love to see the statistics of iraq, or any country invaded by usa, and see how child mortality rises when usa comes into play.

[MariluLane]

@humanfly78 yeah i know what you mean about eugenics, sounded a bit when he said 'lets get mortality down' as in - get birth rates down but i also think that large families should be the exception rather than the norm. i know someone who is 1 out of 11 and he said he isn't even noticed by his parents.. quality over quantity with human life. make sure the world can sustain our children before having them!!

[harsha540]

Infotainment at its best......

[ChocolateTeddybar]

Excellent talk!

[MarnieDK]

I'm mad!! How come not one single person in the audience gave a standing applause?! That was an awesome presentation of incredibly important information!

[Nish018]

My favourite Swede! 

[ZirconCode]

That was very Good

[lipilee]

Hans Rosling is one of the best presenters I have seen in my life.

[AzraelSilverstone]

what happened to standing ovations in ted?

[thewabbit10882]

@AzraelSilverstone I think TED audiences have become used to Hans Rosling and his enthusiastic and enlightening talks, hence the lack of standing ovation.

[furetosan]

Seriously, that guy is awesome!

[princeofexcess]

dont care for children. Dont care for the environment. Yet i think its great that world is moving forward. Child mortality rate represents medical care in those countries as well

[you2ubeist]

UNITED NATIONS is just tool , i don't have any hope on UN

[MegF142857]

This guy is great. What he says matches what "Mr. Condom" said in recent talk about lowering child mortality and then can start to bring down family size with family planning. Women are a key.

[MegF142857]

Last Sunday "60 Minutes" was in a village in northern India where infant & child mortality was staggering. Newborns were put to the side on dirt getting cold while they attended the mothers. They used dirty knives to cut umbilical cords. Just teaching about basic hygiene & keeping child warm was saving so many lives!!! -- Many women & newborns also die from tetanus from dirty instruments, which vaccine & hygiene can prevent. Simple things, big results.

[jeffgatesinfo]

Enjoyable. The topic was respectable.

[zethiago]

excellent talk professor!

[molnes]

Another solid TED-talk by Rosling.

[ali2k4]

screw mac

[aynradd]

geniuses unite! and pave the way to "feminity will save humanity" through 'paradism' !

[Kotesu]

Does it bother anybody else that 20 years is considered long term?

[mewlink64]

What kind of person would come in here and dislike a video like this? Who are these people?

[YanmingYuMusic]

love this guy!

[OrenDf]

one of a kind.

[pgunn01]

I love his enthusiasm!

[JimHisself]

12:12 "Now I start the world"

HE MAKES IT SO FUN :D GO BUBBLES GO TO THE WESTERN BOX

[Kakarot21591]

This guy sounds like my Russian Lit teacher! Hilarious!

[crixus]

Has the pope seen this? If not, he should. And he should be put on trial next, but that's a slightly different matter.

[farvision]

@crixus put the pope on trial first. He doesn't need to be educated to be in jail.

[Jeridiculous]

@crixus Put the Pope on trial? But the Catholic church is above the law, didn't you know?

[kniehk]

@crixus not meaning to challenge you, but could you explain what you mean?

[jestempies]

@crixus I don't think people should be punished for saying stupid, hateful, or misguided things. Then again, I'm not really against someone punching the pope in his stupid face the next time he tells people in a country with 30%+ HIV infection rate not to use condoms.

[xWingTsubasa]

TALE ME INTO YOUR BUBBLE GRAPHS :D YOU'RE AWESOME!

[Silverstarlightt]

Oh man, I love this guy. He's hilarious XD

I wish he was my prof..

[Akseouljah213]

Republic of South Korea developing country? Hilarious!

[Phelan666]

I have no idea why, but this guy reminds me of a Swedish version Walter from Fringe.

Anyway, @ 11:45 people have way more children to increase the probability of at least one of the surviving into adulthood. Also, the UN seems categorize nations as "developing" because they're not European/American nations.

[satanas237]

Nice suits everywhere and laughs about mortality and economic crisis in Greece.

[TalynCo]

Hans Rosling does it again.

[satanas237]

Nice suits everywhere and laughs about mortality and economic crisis in Greece.

[davidt0504]

I hope there is a correlation between how those dots on the graph are moving closer together and the world becoming more of a global community.

[Phelan666]

@davidt0504 Yes, but for the most part, the reason people have more children is to offset the high mortality rates to be sure that their lineage survives.

[Mat2DaW]

excellent talk!

not so sure that child mortality could be the only parameter to determine whether a country is "developing", as Rosling sort of suggested here, but still its definately a good sign

[Phelan666]

@davidt0504 Then turn of the computer and go make them happen.

[TheSpankymonkey]

"From where do the data come" - Love it. Will be using this all day tomorrow.

[dravreh]

Great talk - very insightful!

[Lightrider4444]

Things will not significantly improve in a monetary system.

[Saerain]

I didn't recognize Hans without his hair.

[bugsz1]

Where does the data come from? It comes from the United Nations thats where.

[queenyael]

you heard it - female education is the key.

i like.

[BaileysBeads]

@queenyael It solves almost everything, poverty, aids, overpopulation, climate change.

[arian50]

@queenyael no, it's actually females in the workforce, that's what leads to a much smaller families. Education is key to getting them there (to get a job), but its really the work force. Look up Russia's population (declining from 160 - 142mn).

[mooxim]

TED loves Hans Rosling. I do to. What a guy.

[ceaos]

I love this guy

no homo :))

[coldhell123]

Hans rosling is the only person on earth whose stats is actually entertaining and cool to watch

[BeAwareToAvoid]

Hans Rosling: child survival in the coming years is the best solution to limit growth population.

Here is a scholar that we can respect, not like Jhon Holdren who presentes theories of killing people and forcing them not to breed to limit growth population and the risk is that he's in Obama adminstration!

[isambo400]

cool TED talk bro

[ashleylovesdaddy]

I'll admit, based on this talk, the idea of moving to a developing country and teaching people to read doesn't sound unappealing. I hope this man's teaching style is inspiring a new generation of statisticians. If data on any topic could be seen this clearly, we will always be able to measure our progress.