Hans Rosling Quotes

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• You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.
• I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.
• I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor…
• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
• Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health…
• What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away…
• If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.
• Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.
• If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them!
• My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.
• There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.
• Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
• I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.
• Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time,…
• The database hugging in public institutions is hampering innovation.
• Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.
• Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive…
• Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease…
• When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's…
• To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on…

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