Die Welt als 100 Menschen in den letzten zwei Jahrhunderten [OC]
Von ourworldindata
Die Welt als 100 Menschen in den letzten zwei Jahrhunderten [OC]
Von ourworldindata
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What’s the meaning behind the blurring for vaccination?
**Data sources:**
* **Poverty:** Michalis Moatsos (2021)
* **Education:** Wittgenstein Center (2023), World Bank (2023), van Zanden, J. et al. (2014).
* **Literacy:** Zanden, J. et al. (2014) and UNESCO.
* **Democracy:** Regime classification by Skaaning et al. (own calculation of global population share).
* **Vaccination:** WHO.
* **Child mortality:** Up to 1960, own calculations based on Gapminder; UN-IGME thereafter.
**Tools used:** OWID-Grapher, Adobe Illustrator
The current poverty stats are pretty crazy…
You could just say “percent”.
It’s actually incredible how life on earth is so much better now than ever before. Things are so good now.
There were apparently no democracies in the world until the 1920s? While the U.S. made up 6% of world population by itself.
What’s the definitional hurdle that determines that there was no democracy before ~1925? Is it women getting the right to vote?
If that’s the case by your “100 people” framing I would expect to see a sliver for the white men who were allow to vote earlier than that.
Not sure about the democracy stats pretty sure France and the British empire was a democratic Republic and parliament and even the us started off as a democracy earlier than this shows? Maybe I’m wrong
I’m a bit skeptical of the 1820s numbers. Smallpox vaccines and democracy did exist back then
Also, a farmer from back then might not have much money, but if they have land with fertile soil and a bunch of livestock it might not be right to consider them extreme poverty, even though they might consume most of what they grow instead of selling it in market. This is another reason gdp numbers underestimate wealth of subsistence farmers
Please do not take these very leading graphs on face value
[https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-02-07/a-response-to-max-roser-how-not-to-measure-global-poverty/](https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-02-07/a-response-to-max-roser-how-not-to-measure-global-poverty/)
Max Roser and Our World in Data are funded by the billionaire class who have every interest in convincing you that if we just maintain the status quo then things will eventually work out.
USA trying its hardest to push the literacy and vaccination number down
Feel like percentages were invented for showing this kind of data, rofl.
It would be interesting to see this applied to just the US. It would more than be disturbing.
Hey, OP, could you share a link to the original source? I’d love to share it with some folks.
Any billionaires who remain billionaires when 75% of the world lives in poverty are pure evil.
Looks like 1950 was a tipping point for most indices. Meaning only over 76 year old would remember the old crappy world, and everyone else take the new better one for granted.
So at least five people are poor and wondering wtf
source: I understand why data needs to be grounded in reality
B-but I can’t afford to buy housing in a rich city.
In 2022 there are about 800 million people living in extreme poverty
In 1820 there about 800 million people living in extreme poverty.
This is always a great reminder
But we also need to acknowledge that what folks feel and react to is the rate of change of this, and recently progress has (mostly expectedly) slowed or reversed (vaccines and democracy)
This is actually cool I want to see base data off this like show me ww1 ww2 impact on pop share data by continent etc I am fascinated by the European death cult complex
Overall the trends are great. The slight dips in democracy and vaccination rates is a bit concerning but hopefully both are temporary madness.
Yikes, starting to see some downturns and plateaus on a few of those charts.
I mean… democracy, poverty and education graphs can change drastically depending on the standards.
So basically around the time America became a superpower, the world rapidly started getting better by almost every metric. Coincidence?
Karl Marx really skewed that data keeping his family of 9 in poverty /s