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  • Amazing speech. Thank you very much.

  • 13:13 See the example of the investment of money to increase health conditions in the United Arab emirates compared to other nations.

  • Professor Rosling is an ecstatic raving lunatic that by fantastic oratories and revelations document truth just as easy and convincing as the most fundametalistic believers of totally different categories.

  • Good idea

  • Ö

  • Professor Rosling ist eine ekstatische jumping Verrückter, die mit fanatischem Oratorien und

    Offenbarungen dokumentiert Wahrheiten so einfach und überzeugend wie die meisten fundamentalistischen Gläubigen aller anderen Kategorien.

  • I found it : gapminder

  • Who knows which program is used for this presentation?

    Thx.

  • This guy is awesome - facts rule!!!

  • Haha I love this guy

  • Only think that could make this better would be the individual countries' flags on their circular data icon

    

  • top 5 in youtube

  • Toblerone was 3-D first.

  • 8:30 why did he say 'of course it's a logarithmic scale'? why is that so obvious? it's not to me.

  • @jdhf983y4uhu It's because the scale goes 1 then 10 then 100. If it went 10 then 20 then 30 the jump would be the same amount each time, a normal non-logarithmic scale. But jumping 1 to 10 the first time then 10 to 100 the second time, it can't be a normal scale, it jumps up by 9 then jumps up by 90. it's not adding on the same amount each time, it's timesing by 10 each time. That's called a logarithmic scale.

  • @jdhf983y4uhu imagine a country in which the GDP per capita is US$ 5k and a country in which it's U$ 10k. Now imagine a country in which the GDP per capita is US$ 40k and another in which it is US$ 45k. In both cases, the difference is 5k. But in the first case, the gap between them is wider, because the first country will have to double the size of its economy to reach the second one. When you think of percentage growth, logarithmic scale is more accurate.

  • @luizcadu wow, thanks. that makes sense. my faith in youtube is restored :D

  • @jdhf983y4uhu lol you're welcome. Cheers!

  • what is this program

  • Super Orator

  • he came to my course in school :)

  • @ lupi: the information is all around you. It has always been there. One can only see when one is ready to see. No one can show you. But you are right, better questions yield better answers.

  • Why isn't this shit better advertised? Serious - there is so much to expand the mind. If a good advertiser was called in they could set it out so that someone typed in the statistical probability of sex with a nipple slip celebrity and get this instead. In this day and age this is even more needed.

  • 0:25 to skip intro

  • Amazing presentation

  • can you subtitling this video because I am Deaf. I do not understand.

  • Imagine... all the country gone to healthy-whelthy zone... then what will happen... after every nation will reach there.. then every thing will OK..???... is it what you are thinking HANS ROSLING ... you are just thinking of future with respect to present data.. and........ you mind,..data always changes... if you have the ability... go and join venus project... if don't know... search in google.... god bless your imaginary thinking......

  • @pushpakpoo you are a fucking retard

  • @pushpakpoo Full retard.

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  • I'm a new fan of Hans Rosling. It is inspiring to see such brilliance in service of worldwide progress.

  • this guy is adorable

  • trying to learn his accent for an upcoming play, where i am looking at playing august Strindberg, so friggin hard.

    But, in realtion to this actual video, he's quite excited

  • @joneseytron From what I've heard people see swedish as a language that you sing (I'm swedish myself so I don't see what they mean) so if you try to make your speech into some sort of melody it might help.

  • now i love data

  • what software is he using? how can I get it?

  • @Goulart1978 google Gapminder. I don't think you can download the software but you can use it online. it's fantastic!

  • See that. Windows...

    I rest my case.

  • @pariruramp The program is free, non-profit, and tries to give people easy access to global data. So what's your problem?

  • @pariruramp If you're focused on his "proprietary software", you're missing the forest for the trees.

  • I like this

  • I like this

  • this was like sportscenter commentating the world.

  • sweeds are fun

  • ecological inference does not necesserily reflect individual-level association. thus, his very facy tools can be misleading

  • @DrP1po: I believe he is using the Human Development Index (just google it). It's an amazing website where you can do all the cool stuff he did here yourself, you can chose what's on the x and y axis etc. I used it for papers before!

  • @MissesSwiss The Human Development Index is not a website..=_= it's just a method of measuring development in a country...

  • Dislike!

  • Astonishing.

  • What is the software he is using for these data animations and graphs? Neeeeeed

  • @DrP1po

    Try gapminder(dot)org

  • fascinating informational and entertaining- tech education and design-looking to save our future together.... we need a a few billion people like this on our planet. THANK YOU TED

  • OECD, the country club of the UN. I loled.

  • I am in awe, I have never seen data look so delicious.

  • I'm sure he has a lot of grad students working for him!

  • I love watching Hans' talks :D

  • For anyone who like Hans' talks, I made a playlist of all the talks of his, in order.

    youtube. com/view_play_list?p=AD53BD53C­7A23E96

  • @IndefiniteImplosion Thanks a bunch!

  • @IndefiniteImplosion Thankyou

  • That what TED is for!

  • "This is Mao Tse-tung, he brought health to China! And then he died and then Deng Xiao-ping came and brought money to China..."

    I like this part :))

  • Great vid

  • Can't hear a word he said...?

  • @roff5

    If you try a few times, you should be able to pick up the accent - just repeat, wash, repeat. it should be ok - the fact you can't understand him is good sign, if you've never heard a thick Swedish accent before.

  • huh? lol

  • Why doesn't this have more views than Lady Gaga?

  • @TheAwness Because a study found that smart people arn`t having enough children and the prolitarian mob are breeding like rabbits so the idiots are literally out breeding the more intelligent people and thats why Lady Gaga has more hits than these incerdible talks and yes my friend....we who enjoy these Tedtalk vids are infact in a dwindling minority! Sorry to remind you that We`re fucked unless the nerds out there get breedin so drop the damn calculators nerds and get jiggy wit it!!

  • @TheAwness Because the average human being has an IQ of 100.

  • @TheAwness Because people are awake enough, mass media is easier for people to watch and understand. Breaking the mold is difficult when the 1% don't want us to critically think for our selves and truly understand the world around us.

  • @TheAwness if u dnt understand then you ignorant.

  • @TheAwness more views than who?

  • BMW came some what "ADVERTISING"

    yah sure stuff your self in a good, what is it? 400,00 viewers vidio.

    thou its a good car, but hate the "taking the advantage for money" policy.

  • made of win.

  • @TheAmazingDom total death of 30 million isn't a rate you moron.

  • @danw087 pms?

  • The presentation is all about interpreting statistics. The death rate in China changed dramatically with the death of 30,000,000 people under Mao's influence. This speaker demonstrated that on another part of his presentation. It seems reasonable to question it. If we are " asked" to accept the speaker's points I think I would be neglectful if I didn't. Further,if the speaker is a fan of Mao

  • c0bineelite, was it just nitpicking? The presentation

  • Wonderful, just wonderful. Our first attentive 20 minutes of 2011 and my wife and daughter and I were thrilled (and one of us beat the chimpanzees). I was inspired.

  • Nice, At 11:50 while showing INFANT mortality Hans says "Mao brings health to China!

    OMG That and 30,000,000 deaths., which he displays, but ignores in the video that shows "average life expectancy"; in particular at 1958 or so. How the words "Mao brings health to China" can come out of his mouth makes it hard to take him seriously.

  • @meesterp Talk about nitpicking. So he made a little goof or whatever - he wasn't examining what happened in history, but just what the data was telling him.

  • I can learn from this guy...and what a difference it might have made ...oh my....

  • This guy is great. He can change our view on the world.

  • @cloudburstlenepmhq Is this spam or don't you have had any physics? It's not possible to create energy from nothing. I guess (haven't take a look at the link) this is a kind of motor that transfers the energy of a magnet to kinetic energy. But how the the magnet gets its energy? If you are driving a car you always move about 1500 kilos. This weight is not going to move on itself.

  • Try suicide vs life expectancy. You didn't mention the most important statistic at all, happiness or contentment.

  • @bugsz1 when you find out how to quantify human emotion accurately im sure he probably would haha

  • @bugsz1 It is done all the time. 

  • can anybody please tell me the name of that software?

  • @Shrekshuai gapminder

  • @E5000W: I think, now I do not understand, what you mean, perhaps because I'm not a mathematician, only physicist... ;)

    I see both axis are log. So if you now have a linear graph, its a logarithmic graph when the axis are linear.

  • @E5000W: I think, you do not understand the concept of logarithmic plotting...

  • @Mercury0660 Yes I do understand logarithmic plotting, which was my point - he did not display the graph AS a logarithm, but as a normal graph, which is THEN misleading.

  • In another talk, he shows the importance of improving education and decreasing child mortality rate to decrease the world population problem which I think is MUCH better. He also shows how the gap is farther apart than before, which is more obvious without a logarithmic graph, which was my point.

  • People like these makes me proud to be Swedish. If such a brilliant mind came from my country, perhaps I can be as great.

  • This is another example of misrepresentation of data to support an agenda. For example, on his GDP per capita graph, he has $500, $5000, and $50,000 equal distances from each other, when $5000 is 10X larger than $500, and $50,000 is 10X larger than $5000 and 100X larger than $50. The $50,000 mark should be 100X farther to the right, and therefore the "dots" he showed would be WAAAAAY to the right, showing that there IS a division between rich and poor.

  • @E5000W That's not the point of this presentation.

  • Told to watch this by my geography teacher at A-level, im glad i listened to him for once.

  • I wish Hans Rosling was my teacher :)

  • Wow, dieser Mann stellt die richtigen Fragen und beantwortet sie aus frei verfügbaren Daten. Hut ab!

  • SVT1 even ... Sorry for that typo!

  • Actually! He is right now (some kind of documentury) on Swedish STV1! ... Right At this moment :)

  • Have seen Hans Rosling on other presentations, and he is realy brilliant. Interesting and funny, and with lovely presentation visuals :)

    Snyggt jobbat Rosling. Tummen upp!

  • One of the people that make me proud to be Swedish

  • People like him should lead the world. Not those pretty-faced Wall street motherfuckers now in the White house.

    The world CAN be saved. But we need to do it SCIENTIFICALLY. Religion should not be encouraged.

  • great video, shattered some of my myths

  • bloody brilliant!

  • Are "these ideas worth spreading" not worth spreading in HD?

  • @TheBrodie31k Look at the date , in 2006 , there was no YouTube HD. Please think a little bit before commenting.

  • dammit my accent was compared to his...

    O__O

    KAN DU TALA SVENSK?

    NEJNEJNEJENJEE

  • what a great and smooth presentation .. amazing

  • Wow I have never seen soccer commentary on global health statistics... Friggin' awesome!!

  • Interesante, y habla inglés de p*ta madre. Por mucho que diga algún pardillo, es más, precisamente por el fuerte acento sueco los hispano-hablantes podemos comprenderlo.

    Ahora vayamos al análisis. En un momento se refleja la evolución mundial y relacionada de la renta y la esperanza de vida. Es alucinante como en los años ochenta los países de África y América Latina van hacia abajo y a la izquierda gracias a las políticas neoliberales. O cómo Cuba está a la cabeza de América.

  • LOL INSTANT REPLAY !! like on soccer !!

  • @phiphers football 

  • I was listening to Hans yesterday in Seattle and had a good discussion with him and Steve Balmer - these are two extremely bright, still very humble, guys and I wish we had more of these kind of persons in the world. If you have a chance to speak or listening to Hans Rosling - pls do it and you will learn a lot.

  • the graphs on income distribution he uses will obviously produce misleading results as the richest 'X percentile' are going to make considerably more than a hundred dollars a day such that the percentages resulting won't produce nearly anything that resembles the statistics you'd wind up with it you account for the weight of a person making tens of thousands of dollars a day. Is that not immediately obvious?

    This guy seems reasonable enough, perhaps he's just dealt with statistics too long

  • @pilatech Don't worry, these old Swedes are masterful statisticians. Unfortunately TED doesn't allow much more than 20 minutes, so he doesn't get to break up the statistics in detail as he does in longer lectures.

  • anyone know what software he is using for his presentation?

  • @falconiqx his own, now bought by Google. Larry Page was there during the presentation.

  • @falconiqx gapminder(dot)org

  • Wow. That guy must live forever for the sake of the humanity. He and his intelligence and his ideas are so precious, that's ... awesome!!!! Wow +5.

  • Just saw him speak for 2 hours here at UBC in vancouver.

    The most engaging 2 hours of my life.

  • Excellent way to present data.

  • Présentation très interessante, bravo.

  • What I learnt:

    Average data is dangerous,

    Chinese is coming!

  • The Chinese are getting fatter and lazier. With that many people, they'll begin to consume even more than America does. WWiii won't be fought for nuclear weapons. It'll be fought for food.

  • oneof my teachers are a huge fan of Hans so we use gapminder pretty often... it's great!

  • Thank you for sharing!

  • No Ted Talk has been this eye opening. What a presentation, vividly explains the importance of data and its interpretation.

  • @TejasM14 Totally, has to be one of the best that speaks solely on statistics I've seen ever seen.

  • @TejasM14 Thomas Barnett;s speach was very impressive too

  • @TejasM14 Thomas Barnett's speech was very impressive too

  • Wow! wish I would have a professor like this... Making statistics interesting is a gigantic acheivement =)!

  • @swedeinmexico and what exactly is stopping you?? :)

  • @LuisRC91 , well 1st of all I graduated 10 years ago and secondly I live in Mexico as my name implies so it's a bit far to go for a seminar =)

  • @swedeinmexico a lot of professors these days are dumbass. Even in Canada, they act like they know a lot of shits and when you ask them some question you get a fight back for "not" understanding what they lectured about.

  • Fantastic presentation, He does gloss over the massive inequality that still exists (the top decile controlling over 50% of the wealth) despite the smooth transition between the extremes that appears due to the logarithmic scale used by the UN.

  • This is a very excellent presentation which is not only humorous but extremely insightful into the nature of things that are moving in the current economical climate.

    Prof Hans, you are truly a genius.

  • Tackar herr rosling

  • Hans Rosling is a genius, but its also a International Health Professor, maybe if he were a Psicologist he will focus on mental health instead of life expectancy, and if he were a Biologist he will study destruction of species... and finally the three together may end concluding that humans live longer, but crazier and with a destructive fashion, isnt it?

  • Bill Gates endorsing this Video.  ;)

  • Jävla bra jobbat och gjort Hans, ursäkta språket... Kanon!!

  • Brazil LOL

  • Love you Rosing!

  • who is god?

  • Ok, so jesus christ's nickname is god?

  • Excellent!

  • Mauritius is populated by INDIANS, Rosling! That's why it's different from other African nations.

  • You didn't establish any causal link between the two observations made about Mauritius. In any case he only said that there is such variety in African countries, that you can't solve their problems with one solution.

  • People who still fear exponential human growth should really watch this.

    World population growth will stabilise in this century. The scary Malthusian argument no longer holds any water.

    Yet we still need to tackle resource managment, poverty/welfare issues, energy supply etc.

    But if we could just implement green economy and sustainable development policies on a global scale, we're pretty much set for the future.

  • I agree personally, but I don't think the majority of the people would like to have a another Black Death just to see a another Renaissance. After all, green Economies are immensely expensive and time-consuming to give momentum and earn returns.

  • Quite right, if you go too fast.

    International environmental summits would be dangerous if people would go home and immediately take adequate measures, that's for sure.

    Instead the gathered countries suggest "half-way solutions" to implement. When the agenda is set, there is a market for sustainable technologies, which gradually get cheaper.

    We already kicked the "freon habit" in the

    80s and got rid of sulphur emissions over inland Europe.. so well, everything's possible, I hope.

  • Ah yeah hopefully haha

  • And where is the part that you wake up from dreaming and realise the real world doesn't work like that?

  • Care to explain how the world really works then?

    And I didn't say that everything would go swimmingly but that this at least, is good news... and that the Malthus argument is crap.

  • I think this is an immensely valuable presentation, if for nothing else, a new technique to look into stats, and also his idea of expanding the freedom of information.

    Of course different persons has different interpretations of data and they form their theory about what really happened. A difference of opinion here is most definitely disired. So to the dissenters here, stop hating his "manipulation", instead start forming your own theories

  • Don't be silly... Data representation, visualization, and access are hugely important problems nowadays. Without a good way to get to the data, a whole lot of it is never used the way it could be, and many important insights are simply never arrived at. A related problem is the amount of research coming out. I have read estimates that about 10000 articles come out every year on neural networks alone. With no way to summarize all that data, a lot of work is done twice when it didn't need to be.

  • I think he does have theories for his data, one that is shown consistently through this speech is that improvement to economic advancement and living standard should be highly, highly contextualized and broken down. Such as who exactly do we aid in Africa, right? He did not directly point to this social problem, but no doubt he helped in inspiring such debates

  • too many unfounded theories, however - make us bigger fools than observing of actual changes - which sometimes defy theorems - such is the case in marketing for example. don't be a fool.

  • Data is also good for relativising real poverty traps since in the world of Mathematics, a ratio is cool but a bare number childish. There is another video on here where someone uses data to support the holocaust since relatively speaking to the global population there was a few % less "premature death" that in other decades, I think it was Steven Pinker, who is yet another raving ratio man.