Factfulness, Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund

When asked simple questions about global trends - what percentage of the world's population lives in poverty, why the world's population is increasing, how many girls finish school - we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanze choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, investment bankers, and Nobel laureates and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two longtime collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new exploration of why this happens, and reveals the ten instincts that distort our perspective. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a world view based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us the most. Inspiring and revelatory, filed with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world.