Hans Rosling:

Global health expert;

data visionary

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As a doctor and researcher, Hans Rosling identified a new paralytic disease induced by hunger in rural Africa. Now he looks at the bigger picture of social and economic development with his remarkable trend-revealing software.

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.

TED and Reddit’s 10 questions to Hans Rosling

Posted September 11, 2009

10 questions to HansThe Internet community Reddit.com got to ask questions to Hans Rosling. Here is his answers.

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TED-talk: Let my dataset change your mindset

Posted September 11, 2009

TED-talk at the US State Department, summer 2009.Global trends over the last 200 years, the development of the HIV/AIDS-epidemic and how China is catching up.

 

 

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Crisis narrows China-UK gap

Posted June 2, 2009

200 years ago, United Kingdom was a leading nation of the world. See UK’s journey to present time – and how China is closing in.

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HIV: New facts and stunning data visuals

Posted May 13, 2009

25 years of the HIV epidemic in easily understood graphics.Showing the big differences within Africa.

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Swine flu alert! News/Death ratio: 8176

Posted May 8, 2009

News/Death ratio for Swine flu and TB. Shows media hype and neglect, respectively!

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Human rights & democracy statistics

Posted May 8, 2009

Human Rights & Democracy statisticscorrelates poorly with progress in Health and Wealth.

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200 years that changed the world

Posted May 7, 2009

200 years of history in 4.5 minutes.Let Hans Rosling guide you through the developments of the last two centuries.

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Lung Cancer Statistics

Posted May 7, 2009

Iceland “leading” march towards gender equity in lung cancer.

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Prostate Cancer Statistics

Posted May 7, 2009

Prostate cancer most common in the US. Overdiagnosis or not?

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Breast Cancer Statistics

Posted May 7, 2009

Breast Cancer increases with incomeBut so does the chances of saving women with cancer.

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Liver Cancer Statistics

Posted May 7, 2009

Vaccination, but not high-income,can prevent liver cancer.

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Colon Cancer Statistics

Posted May 7, 2009

High-income ’cause’ and may cure colon cancer!

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Stomach Cancer Statistics

Posted May 7, 2009

Stomach cancer highest in middle income countries.

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Cervical Cancer Statistics

Posted May 6, 2009

Cervical Cancer can be prevented and treated.Today it is most common among women in low-income countries.

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Shanghai, New York, Mumbai

Posted April 2, 2009

Is Shanghai healthier than New York?And how do Washington D.C. and Mumbai rank?

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Yes they can!

Posted February 16, 2009

Swedish students say: “They can never live like us”Time to rethink!

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Poor beat rich in MDG race

Posted February 16, 2009

See how Bangladesh, Brazil, and Egyptreduce child mortality faster than Sweden!

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What stops population growth?

Posted January 25, 2009

Poor children may as well die?Watch this presentation to learn what population growth really is.

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Debunking myths about the “third world”

Posted November 14, 2008

You’ve never seen data presented like this. Hans Rosling’s presentation at the TED-conference in 2006 has been seen by millions over the internet.

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The seemingly impossible is possible

Posted November 13, 2008

Hans Rosling’s 2007 TED-speech makes the seemingly impossible possible. See complex global trends turned into lively animations.

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Reducing Child Mortality

Posted November 6, 2008

Nearly 10 million children under five die every year.How can child mortality be cut by two thirds by 2015?

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Chimpanzees know better?

Posted October 16, 2008

An acclaimed lecture from Google Zeitgeist 2007.Hans Rosling uses Gapminder World to shed light on differences in the way we live around the world.

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A Slum Insight

Posted April 14, 2008

Urbanization will continue, can slum be made history?Insight into the needs of slum dwellers.

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Carbon dioxide (Energy)

Posted January 24, 2008

CO2 emissions in USA and China compared.How to produce electricity cheaper than from coal.

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Public services

Posted January 17, 2008

To have a fair chance in life, everyone needs public services.Good information is needed in order to provide good public service.

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Turkey meets France

Posted December 3, 2007

Turkey is definitely catching up in a public health perspective.See how it compares to France.

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Maternal mortality

Posted November 19, 2007

How many women die every year during pregnancy and childbirth? Do we even know?

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Chile, a developing country?

Posted November 15, 2007

What’s the difference between Chile, Cuba and the USA?Another reason why “developing/developed” is an outdated concept.

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10 Years In, 10 Years Out

Posted November 5, 2007

OIL, HIV, CO2, USD.Four topics, four acronyms.

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Bangladesh Miracle

Posted October 26, 2007

Have you heard about the miracle that has happened in Bangladesh?Watch the video to find out.

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Globalization

Posted October 24, 2007

The eradication of poverty is within human range.The percentage of people living in “extreme poverty” has gone down.

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Human Development Trends

Posted October 13, 2007

Human Development from 1960 to 2001.In focus: Life Expectancy and Income

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Urbanization

Posted September 17, 2007

The urban challenge. Hans Rosling shows the last 40 years of development of urbanization.

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Health, Money & Sex in Sweden

Posted June 26, 2007

300 years of Swedish history.How economic growth, public health and sexual rights have changed.

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About

We are a modern “museum” that helps making the world understandable, using the Internet. Gapminder was founded in Stockholm by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Hans Rosling on February 25, 2005.

Gapminder is registered as a Foundation at Stockholm County Administration Board (Länstyrelsen i Stockholm) with registration number (organisationsnummer) 802424-7721. (The constitution can be found here) Economic administration Gapminder Foundation c/o Ekonomi Klara Papper AB (att: Johanna Englund) Box 22 312 SE-104 22 Stockholm Office c/o Karolinska Institutet, Division of Global Health Nobels väg 9 SE- 171 77 Stockholm Sweden Organisation number 802424-7721 Gapminder does not award any grants.

It is an operating foundation that provides sevices as defined by the board, sometimes as collaborative projects with universities, UN organisations, public agencies and non-governmental organisations.

The initial activity was to continue development of the Trendalyzer software. This software unveils the beauty of statistical time series by converting boring numbers into enjoyable, animated and interactive graphics. The current version of Trendalyzer is available since March 2006 as Gapminder World, a web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries.

n March 2006 Google acquired Trendalyzer from the Gapminder Foundation and the team of developers who formerly worked for Gapminder has joined Google in California since April 2007. (History of Gapminder) Gapminder Foundation now fills the Trendalyzer with statistical content and use the resulting animations to fulfill our aim by: Making time series freely available in Gapminder World and Gapminder Countries.

Producing videos, Flash presentations and PDF charts showing major global development trends with animated statistics and colorful graphics.

All with the intention of being a “fact tank” that promotes a fact based world view.

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