Fascinating Insights from 200 Years of Global Health in 4 minutes – Video

By: | February 26th, 2013

This video shows a fascinating insights into how life expectancy, wealth and technology are linked.

Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before – using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of ‘The Joy of Stats’ he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.

David Russell Schilling

David enjoys writing about high technology and its potential to make life better for all who inhabit planet earth.

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