Dr. Hans Rosling Explains Last 200 Years of World Progress in 4 Minutes (The Joy of Stats)

Several friends have posted this BBC video of a very enthusiastic Dr. Hans Rosling explaining the past 200 years of world progress in only four minutes using a fascinating graph. You can check it out below:

Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats

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.

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