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



More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgq0l 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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  1. Only for the Industrial Age we would be posting our comments in Youtube for all of us to see on our computers that is powered
    by Electricity that Science has created. Greenies and environmentalist are losing! The world is getting bigger and more exciting and cleaner.
  2. The joy of Capitalism? everyone gets richer eventually.
  3. Amazing! Check the Rwandan Genocide in 1993 - way bigger impact than I would have seen in data.
  4. Ehm that's not a good graph mate. The horizontal measures aren't consistent. First gap is bridgess 400, the second 3600 en the last 36000. This makes the visual presentation rather warped.
  5. Awesome Video. RIP Hans Rosling. Please add english captions.
  6. My son, Santiago, just left a comment. Here it is:

    LOL 1:48 - 1:58 "What a Catastrophe!"(:
  7. Fantastic video. However, I don't know how he accounts for inflation. Does anyone know?
  8. It's a good visualization.
    And no, Hans Rosling wasn't trying to fool anybody.
    The youtube commenter bitching about the logarithmic axis is the one doing the fooling (fooling themselves into believing they actually have a point).
  9. All this at the expense of our ecosystem, is anthropocene worth it? Maybe 80, 90, 100 year lifespans are artificial and not sustainable for our 7.5B species?
  10. An amazing man. The best presenter I have ever seen. RIP
  11. Extremely fascinating to see the how this prodigious amount of data was applied to create a graph showing the economic and life expectancy growth of modern civilizations from the post industrial revolution to the present. It was also quite intriguing that major world events had noticeable impacts on the graph like the 1918 flu epidemic and the Second World War. It seems as if there is no other direction but up for the future. Meaning higher standards of living for all people. However, this type of growth at its rate indicates that this exponential growth is only positive if done in the correct manner. In a way that doesn't further the catastrophic damage our planet has sustained at our expense.
  12. Such a great video!! Super informative!
  13. Best visualization ever
  14. What is the smaller black laptop looking device next to the Mac at 0:16?
  15. To all those british idiots who says British rule was beneficial to its colonies for civilizing them look the video again and again and if your small white brains are capable enough then you will understand why after 1947 Colonies started to grow from stagnation.
  16. Amazing video. I still remember it after maybe 5 years when I first saw it. RIP.
  17. My English teacher just showed this to the class.
  18. This video really enlightened me on how much the world has changed over the last two centuries. I did not expect that the world had changed that much and how much better our medicine has gotten
  19. It was very surprising to find out that the modern technology has changed people’s health and wealth of life today. I did not realize how desperate the health care was back then and I learned that the development of technology has a direct connection on the length of human’s life expectancy. I find It very interesting and sad that just a few decades ago, peoples life expectancy was below 40 years.


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Duration: 4m 48s

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