Myths About the Developing World (2of3) (Hans Rosling @ TED)

This global health visionary has discovered a powerful new way to communicate complex data about the world. He co-founded Gapminder, whose remarkable interactive graphs help deliver profound insights about global trends and dispel myths about the "developing world". With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, he debunks a few of those myths in this presentation delivered at the 2006 Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Conference. (http://www.ted.com/)

Hans Rosling is a Professor, Doctor, and Co-founder of Gapminder

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[WertzOne]

@stephentsang2000

Did you read the comment I quoted?.... or, are you on drugs?

[stephentsang2000]

@WertzOne

$100 per day = $3000 per month = $36000 per year!!!! That is higher than many many European countries. Do you know what you are talking about or are you on drugs???

[WertzOne]

@subprimeminister

Well i'm doing the non-physically possible since I live with 14.4 dolars daily(Universitary career), and I can affort a good life in Mexico that happens to be a OECD member.

Don't talk about something you don't know and discredit the work of someone that clearly know more than you do, and I'm not implying that him is right, since I don't know that much.

Turkey and Chile are another examples of living with less than 100$ per day in a OECD country.

[luckysahraa]

Very nice and Interesting. Thank you for sharing this video and educating us.

[SavantSvant]

Yes you can.

[jilznock]

Sorry but you are wrong. $100 per day corresponds to $36,400 per year (before taxes). Millions in the USA and Canada (two OECD founding members) exist on incomes of $36k and even less.

[subprimeminister]

p.s. Ask him whether he can live in Sweden on $100 a day...

[subprimeminister]

ourearthhome, I don't know why you received all the thumbs down, you are correct.

What isn't shown on his graph is the disparity between wealth of the few (in each country) growing at the expense of the many, especially in the OECD. Also, what relevance does a scale of $1, $10, $100 per day have?

It is not physically possible to exist in an OECD country on $100 per day (taxes, housing, fuel, transport, food, clothing).

This presentation is pointless.

[SteveO3387]

Infant mortality in the US is largely due to mothers' devastating choices, not quality of medical care!

[ourearthhome]

Since the highest incomes are enjoyed by those segments of each country's population that own most of the earth's land and natural resources and since it is the fact in economics that such incomes are unearned because 100% of the population of each country (and of the whole world for that matter) create all land value, it will ultimately be an easy matter to create more equal incomes/health by promoting policies, preferably tax policies, that share these vast unearned incomes among all people.