The main point of Factfulness was to explain the huge discrepancies between what people think is going on in the world and what actually is. Barack Obama also credited it as being a “hopeful book about the potential for human progress”. It was endorsed by Bill Gates, who thought it so important that he offered four million graduating US students a free digital download. These are just three of 13 questions posed at the start of Hans Rosling’s book, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think, which came out in April last year and has gone on to become a massive surprise bestseller, shifting more than half a million copies already. Iven the vast amount of data available about almost everything, how much do you think you know about global trends? Do you think, for example, that life expectancy today is 50, 60 or 70 years? In the past 20 years, has the proportion of the world population living in extreme poverty almost doubled, remained more or less the same, or almost halved? And in low-income countries, is the percentage of girls who finish primary school 20, 40 or 60 per cent? New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.
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