It used to be ... worse! | Harald Lesch

"It used to be better" - a saying that is as popular as it is wrong. Harald Lesch shows: Previously everything was not at all better, actually it's quite the opposite. In many areas, we now live in comparatively paradisiacal conditions.
Life expectancy:
Gapminder video about the connection of income and life expectancy:
Https://www.gapminder....
Murders in Germany:
Federal Criminal Police Office - Yearly Statistics 2015:
Https://www.bka.de/EN/...
Statista - Number of murder victims in Germany from 2000 to 2016:
Https://en.statista.co...
(At the time of recording, the statistics were only available until 2015)
Smallpox:
Historical overview by Dr. Volker Juds:
Http://www.gapinfo.de/...
Eradication of smallpox:
Http://www.spektrum.de...
Poverty:
Our World in Data by Max Roser and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina:
Https://ourworldindata...
Child labor:
International Labor Office of the UN - Report 2012:
Http://www.ilo.org/wcm...
Child mortality:
UNICEF statistics:
Https://data.unicef.or...
Education:
Our World in Data by Max Roser:
Https://ourworldindata...
Further figures on the state of the world:
Gapminder - The Ignorance Project
Https://www.gapminder....
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