I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion. Hans Rosling Read Quote
The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That’s what CEOs from big companies say – ‘if I want mathematical analytical work done, it’s done in China.’ Hans Rosling Read Quote
There’s still racism. Western Europe… has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others. Hans Rosling Read Quote
There’s about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country. Hans Rosling Read Quote
While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn’t have a fact-based worldview. They talked about ‘we’ and ‘them.’ They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives. Hans Rosling Read Quote
Fame is a dangerous thing. It’s what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining. Hans Rosling Read Quote
My interest is not data, it’s the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it’s very difficult to measure in numbers. Hans Rosling Read Quote
Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn’t think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody. Hans Rosling Read Quote
Well, the truth is I’m very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance. Hans Rosling Read Quote
