time and Time again, returned to Hans Rosling at the the last book in The incidence of extreme poverty in the world declines. Fewer and fewer people are living on less than $ 2 a day. These are people living in extreme poverty 1.9-billion in the year 1990, is now one-third as many people (650 million). The incidence of extreme poverty has declined drastically since the late 1980s, not only in China and the far East, but in Africa, Latin america, and the Middle east.

fewer and Fewer people are going hungry, too. The International food policy research institute shows that the supply of food has been increasing since it is the so-called ”global hunger index” is reduced. In smaller countries, such as Ukraine, Turkey, and Peru, the availability of food has increased, but also in the larger countries such as Brazil, China and india. In general, the availability has increased in Africa, the Middle east, Latin america and south-east Asia.

as to the availability of food is improved, increasing the average life expectancy. The family of rosling’s website Gapminder, shows how the average life expectancy in many parts of the world hovered around 30 to 35 years up to the end of the 1800’s. There was a reason for that, thousands and thousands and thousands of swedes immigrated to America. Even as late as in 1914, bought my own grandfather, a ticket to the Amerikabåten in search of a better life.

and something happened. The curves are pointing upwards, and people are living longer and longer. All of it can certainly be, do not expect to live to 85 years of age, as in Japan and Singapore, but in many countries, life expectancy has doubled. In a few countries, citizens now have a life expectancy of under 50 years of age. It is also noteworthy that the average life expectancy in many of the world’s poorest countries, and it continues to grow.

with The increase in life expectancy is due in large part to the lower rates of infant mortality. In both the 1900s and the 2000s have actually been the children’s ages. Certainly, I, as a pediatrician seriously ill children in Sweden, however, of the deaths among children are rare. The vast majority of the children were born in Sweden and Europe, and the experience of its 18 years. In the early 1990s, the dog is still one-tenth of the world’s children during their first five years of his life. Today that figure is cut in half. At the same time, has a birthing safer for the mother and the child. The pregnant women’s mortality in childbirth is reduced. In Africa, died in 1990, one out of every ten women who gave birth to a child. This number has been cut in half. The fact is that the risk of death in childbirth has been reduced in Europe over the last 30 years, from already low levels.

but directly to the survival of life has become better for many people. Child labour is declining, not the least of the children’s involvement in hazardous work. The international labour organization (ILO) estimates that there were nearly 250 million child workers aged 5 to 17 years old in the world in the year 2000, out of which 170 million are working in hazardous occupations. Both of these figures have decreased by around 40 per cent in the year 2000. However, more is, of course, by the fact that we pay attention to the problem. The indian cricketstjärnan Sachin Tendulkars tweet about the widespread child labour in their home country, received a lot of indians to screw it up, but also to try and do something about it. Also, we can do more. As consumers, we can take action to put pressure on the retail chains and producers in order to get rid of child labour.

a Lot of work remains to be done, but we are well on our way toward a world in which the childhood of schooling, rather than the kind of work.

in recent years, great efforts on developing vaccines for malaria are a welcome feature. I hope to be able to see an effective vaccine in my lifetime. Yet, we are not yet there, but the fact is that very little funding has already succeeded in preventing many cases of malaria in the last 20 to 30 years, by providing mosquito nets to combat malaria. The world health organization has estimated that the number of cases of malaria has decreased by more than 40 per cent in Africa since 2000. It’s a drastic reduction, which should be considered in light of the fact that malaria occurs mainly in sub-Saharan Africa, and it is the part of the world, which had been the most difficult to achieve economic growth. Other diseases that had become uncommon in the last few decades, flodblindhet (oncocerciasis), and the guineamaskinfektion, but also aids situation has in many places become better.

as a medical student in the mid-1990’s, visited Tanzania to meet every day, people who are ill with aids. It was a turbulent time. As I recall, the journal of the Tempus page on hiv / aids, which caused me to shiver hiv / Aids was the new plague. The book ”How to survive a plague’s” David France is depicted in the undergångsstämningen in the city of New York, in which about 100,000 people died of the disease in the ’80s and’ 90s. Research and prevention efforts have certainly not yet been aids, and we have no cure for it, however, the increase in the number of aids patients has been slowed down. Get to see aids as an existential threat to the human race. Malaria, oncocerciasis, guineamaskinfektion, and aids – have we simply become better at dealing with infectious diseases.

as for the Swedes smoke less! It’s not just that the producers might think it was ‘cool’ of smoking, so that you as the viewer sees the actors in the 50-talsfilmer make a pass a little bit at a time. It was quite common to smoke for 60 to 70 years ago. Sweden has had a warning label on cigarette packages since 1977. The advertising of tobacco products prohibited since 1993. The ban on smoking, including bus stops and children’s playgrounds will be likely to reduce smoking even further. Although the use of snus has increased in Sweden, though, even if it adds up to is smoking and nicotine is the dagliganvändarna clearly, fewer and fewer for both men and women, as compared with the 1980s. Less smoking leads to significant health benefits for the individual and for the society, and there are just a few of the good news.

Gängkriminaliteten in spite of the environment, seen over a long period of time, has become much more reliable. The wars in Europe have become fewer and fewer in number. Also, the problem of violence in our society has been reduced. Manuel Eisner, kriminolog, at Cambridge university in england, has shown how the number of murders per capita in Scandinavia, have been reduced by over 90% since the 1500’s.

if the 1900-century, has been perhaps the most violent century in the history of mankind. The two atomic bombs marked the end of the second world war, but also in the nuclear area, the bright catch a glimpse of. Peace research institute (Sipri), Stockholm international peace research institute, said in a statement (17/6 2019), the number of nuclear warheads dropped to between 2018 and 2019. That number goes down, of course, not all of it, but it’s at least a step in the right direction, compared with the 1980s, the number of nuclear weapons declined by approximately 80 percent. It is the fear of total annihilation, which I have, and many of the peers, the bar, during the ’70s and’ 80s, when the news was talking about the power balance of terror, I don’t feel quite so cramped.

the challenges of today’s society is huge, there are strong counter forces. During the last one hundred years, more and more people learned to read, and the number of people living in democracies, have increased significantly. Better health, better education and the reduction of poverty, is the humanity in a better position for the future than at any time in the past.

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