Science Alert/Business Insider: These 9 Amazing Graphs Reveal How Life Is Actually Getting Better For Billions of People
Things aren't as bad as you think.
It's easy to think the world is ending when natural disasters are pummelling vulnerable islands and politicians are threatening nuclear destruction.
But take a step back and you'll find a more encouraging picture of where the human race is headed - at least from a public health and quality of life perspective.
Across the board, in matters of mortality, hunger, disease, and more, life is getting better for billions of people.
Here is a sampling of that global progress.
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WNU Editor: Can anyone say the words capitalism and free markets.
The almost total of the page graph come from China, when capitalism is not free, but highly organized, millions fleeing from Africa (and we have them at the gates).
ReplyDeleteMost of the results comes from healthcare world programs (China free from polio before Europe).
In 1981 64% of child labour in Italy?
Ah! Ah! Ah! No! Really, no. I was a child in the '80 and I don't ever know a single children working in that period, and I'm not from middle or high class.
Fake or old data on child work, all before world crisis.
Reducing in child labour come from various things: industrialization and economic improvement, trade unions, mass media public opinion, international bans, ecc. But neoliberism is ideologically against Union and workers rights, and this impact on child work.
And about progress in Italy:
Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2015/2
MIT Press
Descrizione
The large body of new statistical data that became available after the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification permits a re-examination of Italy’s economic growth. Up-to-date estimates and re-interpretations of Italy’s gdp from 1861 to 2011—at both the national and regional levels—in the light of institutional and technological changes within an international context find that Italy’s economic growth was substantial early in the twentieth century but slackened considerably since the 1990s, despite successes in long-term performance. Analysis suggests that the country is on the road to irreversible decline. Part of the problem lies in the failure of the southern regions to converge economically with the more highly developed central and northern regions.