Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

An audiobook that, once you’ve listened, will help you understand how our world actually works, what changes are happening in it, and where these changes will lead us. And no, things aren’t getting worse every year. In fact, everything is only getting better.

When we think about the current state of the world, it seems like each year the situation becomes worse and worse. Natural disasters claim more and more lives, populations of rare animals on the brink of extinction are shrinking literally before our eyes, and the share of the world’s population living in poverty is steadily rising. But in reality, it’s exactly the opposite. In his book Factfulness. Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, the scientist, doctor, lecturer, and co-founder of the Swedish branch of Doctors Without Borders, Hans Rosling, doesn’t just explain the most common errors our brains make when trying to judge the global changes occurring in the world. He also provides tools that teach you how to correctly see and understand the big picture—even if you don’t have time to analyze every small detail.

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The Book you can read and, after doing so, will understand how our world really works, what changes are happening in it, and where these changes will lead. And no, things don’t get worse every year. In fact, everything is only getting better.

An ideal book to stop fearing the future.

The world is divided in half. In rich countries, people live happily: the elderly are taken care of, children almost never die, there is enough food for everyone, and the situation keeps improving. In poor countries, the share of child deaths is critically high, the standard of living for older people is extraordinarily low, there isn’t enough food, and with every year everything becomes worse and worse. This is just one misconception that has nothing to do with statistical data. In reality, there are many such misconceptions—an incredible number. Hans Rosling, a scientist and specialist in global health, a doctor, a popular lecturer, and co-founder of the Swedish branch of Doctors Without Borders, shows how far our beliefs about the world sometimes are from the truth. Is the gap between rich and poor really growing? Are ever more rare animals going extinct? Is education declining worldwide? Is the amount of forest and protected areas on Earth shrinking? The real answers to these questions are able to flip the familiar pessimistic picture of the world upside down.