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Factfulness by Hans Rosling

Step-by-step, year-by-year, the world is improving. Not on every single measure every single year, but as a rule. Though the world faces huge challenges, we have made tremendous progress. This is the fact-based worldview. Introduction  "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think" is a compelling work by the late Hans Rosling, a renowned Swedish physician, academic, and public speaker, along with his son Ola Rosling and daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Rönnlund. Published in 2018, the book aims to counteract widespread misconceptions about global development, urging readers to adopt a fact-based worldview. Rosling's engaging style, combined with his use of data and statistics, challenges readers to reassess their perspectives on the world's progress. "Factfulness" not only educates but also empowers its audience to view the world through a more accurate, optimistic lens. Synopsis  "Factfulness" be...