There have been A LOT of extraordinary, groundbreaking developments in health this year. We have compiled some of the most amazing in our list of little known positive news from 2023: gapminder.org/pos23 #positivenews #health

Today's improvement is: More than 8 years of schooling is the new normal! gapminder.org/46

When the news is so bad in so many ways, it can be hard to realize the many improvements there have been to people’s living standards. See some of the positive news from the last 12 months in our list: gapminder.org/pos23 #positivenews

Some things are worse than you think! The #Gaza Famine victims are 81% of global famine-risk-population. 0.57M in Gaza are in The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification's category 5 out of 0.7M worldwide. But as most plp overestimate suffering, and think famine is common, they don't see: Gaza is extreme!

Today's improvement is: Far fewer death rows! gapminder.org/60

Then I discovered the work of #HansRosling Gapminder. He taught me that extreme poverty & child mortality were falling & education & life expectancy were rising. I went looking for other areas where my preconceptions might be wrong... #geographyteachers theguardian.com/environment/20…

¿ ¿ ¿ Why would imigration increase if borders are closed ? ? ? Read @heindehaas, dismantling tons of migration misconceptions, many of which Gapminder tested in the Refugee Misconceptions Study 2023: gapminder.org/ignorance/stud… Test yourself here: upgrader.gapminder.org/t/refugees

The public perception of #India is lagging decades behind the fast improvement. For example, the share of babies born in health facilities increased from around 52% in 2008 to around 89% by 2021. Test your misconceptions about India and other fast changing countries here:

Who saved 154 million lives over 50 years? World Health Organization (WHO) Six lives per minute! The name of the hero: Immunisation Programs. Let's make sure this great example of global progress, this triumph of human collaboration, gets its deserved attention! who.int/news/item/24-0…

Are you suffering from the same stereotypes about the US as most Americans do? Take this quiz where the US public scores 4.9, but monkeys picking answers randomly would score 6 out of 18. upgrader.gapminder.org/t/united-states

Avoid fluffy teaching about Sustainable Devolpment. Don’t bore your students with buzzwords! Instead, challenge them to take our free fact-tests and engage them in fact-driven debates. And ask them to test their parents…and discuss: Why are most people completely wrong about the

The Roslings are hiring (in Sweden):

Are you a science geek with an interest in public health? You probably imagine people like you know more about the future of global health than others… Watch me present some test results at 10:20 in Stockholm at the Nobel Week Dialogues today: svtplay.se/video/ePvVQGV/…

Agathatopian Greg Yang Gapminder Yes xAI scored worst of all popular LLMs, when tested with 300 global facts ( see upgrader.gapminder.org ). Some of its mistakes could potentially be labeled as #woke . I’m soon sharing more of Gapminder’s #ArtificialWorldviewBenchmark soon.

We just launched a new #AI testing of chatbots' global misconceptions: The Artificial Worldview Benchmark #AWB. WORST SCORE: #grok2 xAI, only 70% correct! (Soon results for #Grok3 stay tuned Elon Musk) youtu.be/D7e1d16da0A?si… See gapminder.org/ai, OpenAI Meta

Just launched local 🇸🇪 data! SWEDES—See how your neighborhood is changing: boendebarometern.uu.se OTHERS—Tell us if you want to collaborate with local data for your country too. Email: [email protected] See: uu.se/en/news/2025/2… Uppsala universitet

Today likely marks the lowest number of child deaths in human history. UNICEF’s latest data shows that the world’s most important number keeps falling. A quiet global miracle — almost never mentioned in the news. Thank you for tracking it, UNICEF Data.