Life expectancy versus income for 200 years
Hans Rosling
Sweden
2016
BBC News
Hans Rosling, is a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician, and public speaker. He is the Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet and co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation. He rose to international celebrity status after producing a Ted Talk in which he promoted the use of data to explore development issues. In this video, he presents dynamic results of statistics for life expectancy versus income for the last 200 years. The results are amazing. It tells the story of how fossil fuels have changed life for the better., both for income and life expectancy.