This is a quick, neat video presented with modern technology that briefly summarizes the rise of mankind from all over the world from a relatively mundane wealth and life expectancy point 200 years ago to where we are today.
Really interesting!
Cooool!
Notice that even the poorest countries of now are, on average, as well off or better off than the richest of 200 years ago.
I know. That was the first thought that crossed my mind. I guess to me this demonstrates that sometimes no matter how bad things may seem, humanity somehow finds a way to forge forward and evolve as a whole.
Cool, but I kept being distracted by the two Asian outliers that went crazy high crazy fast. Japan wasn’t one of them…what are they?
Singapore? Hong Kong?
And I noticed that around 1940 there’s a country that drops vertically like a stone, then recovers. I wonder what that was?
What surprised me was the huge drop after WWI.
If you watch around 1940, you’ll see some small European country (an orange circle) plummet down below the 25 year life expectency line and then jump way back up almost immediately. I assume it’s some country that got caught up in WWII but it seems to have recovered even before the war ended.
eta: I see Sunspace asked the same question.
Oh, this is the gapminder guy! The most fun website in the world, if you’re a giant nerd. I’m gonna have to send this video to my public health professor, who once claimed that gapminder changed her life.
Can you elaborate on what “the gapminder guy” is for the naive?
Does anyone know what the orange country is that bounces around a lot at the beginning?
That’s the Ukraine. It starts its plummet it '39 then starts up again.
I’m starting to think there’s a few countries that God just seems to hate. The Ukraine is one of them.
It’s Sweden.
Gapminder.
Looks like he does this for a lot of things.
Never heard of it and now I can look forward to staying up late.
Yeah that was distracting - it went up and down like someone bouncing a rubber ball - I am very curious.
Psst: post 11
Ah, didn’t see that. Thanks.
So why was Sweden bouncing around so much?
I’m not really sure but this is what I found in wikipedia:
That was the flu pandemic.
Ah, thanks.
New question: Does he take into account inflation? It seems that everyone has more money now, but how much wealthier have people really gotten over the past two hundred years? The increase in life expectancy, the world over, though, is quite impressive. A nice bit of pride for the species, in my humble opinion, although there’s a bit more to do.
China plummets like a stone at around 1960 and bounces right back up by 1963. Kind of chilling when you think about it. Hope you’re having a good time roasting in hell with demon cock up your ass, Chairman Mao.
I knew it was the Spanish Flu, I’ve read that it was devastating, but I never realized just how bad it was.