30-04-20 And yet we humans continue to develop

In my daily reading I got stuck on graphics today, which impressed me and made me think. Author Max Roser takes a close look at the development of some of the factors that have determined society over the last 200 years:

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In my daily reading I got stuck on graphics today, which impressed me and made me think. Author Max Roser takes a close look at the development of some of the factors that have determined society over the last 200 years:

Isn’t it nice to read that in 1820 the whole world population was still living in extreme poverty, but fortunately today only 10% of the population is living in extreme poverty. The general education and literacy of the world’s population has also developed rapidly in a positive direction. Now I hope for all of us that these trends will continue to develop positively despite the current Covid 19 pandemic.