Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling is a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician, and public speaker. He is the Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet and co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system. He rose to international celebrity status after producing a Ted Talk in which he promoted the use of data to explore development issues...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth27 July 1948
CountrySweden
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I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.
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My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.
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Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them!
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Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.
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There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.
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I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.
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We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.
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Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.
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There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.