die grundidee des buches ist super die umsetzung leider eher geht so. wichtige themen die super eintönig beschrieben wurden, würde mir das buch sparen:)

An excellent read about the knowledge gap in today's society! Hans Rosling demonstrates by the use of convincing data how the world is much better off than we think. I like me some optimistic non fiction book.

I pretty much liked the first three chapters. Three great misconceptions were adressed by the author and it was shown that humanity kind of missed recent developments of the world (4 stars for this part) The following chapters were imo a bit boring, e.g. the chapter about the single numbers and that they should always be compared or divided. Maybe I am very used to working with numbers as an economics student, but actually I thought this should be clear to everybody. And then came Chapter six with the following sentence: „Every pregnancy results in roughly two years of lost menstruation“ In which world is that true? Roughly 9 month of pregnancy without menstruatuion, and then like 6 weeks of childbed (the author argues that sanitary firms profit from fewer births per woman because it’s lost sales for them, so here childbed should kind of compensate this loss already), and if the mother breastfeads, it can come to a delay in menstruation. But overall this does not add up to 2 years. Am I wrong? Do i miss something important? Otherwise I am very disappointed that a book, that claims to be relying on facts and data can make such a mistake. So I concluded the book a bit biased, but I think overall it focused too much on the good developments and that somehow our challenges like poverty will be left behind us sometime in the near future anyway. A bit misleading and too omptimistic or how it was stated by the author: possibilistic.