Hans Rosling: No more boring data: TEDTalks

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.

That's because of population growth. Here's a simple demonstration:

Population 1: 1000
Population 2: 4000
Poverty Population 1: 100
Poverty Population 2: 200
Poverty Rate 1: 10%
Poverty Rate 2: 5%

100 more people are in poverty, but the fraction of the total population in poverty has halved.

A lot of leftists seem to accept the idea that capitalism=wealth, and think that wealth itself is evil. It's no wonder libertarians think they're so smart with opponents like that.

Personally I think it's a result of industrialization, which is independent of economic ideology.

He never claimed that one caused the other. He seems to be saying that both share a common cause.

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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.

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