200 years that changed the world

June 4, 2009 by Tim
Filed under: World 

Hans Rosling of Gapminder World, has released a fascinating video showing how the average health and wealth of the world’s countries have changed – drastically – over the last 200 years. Interestingly the gap between the richest and poorest, as well as the healthiest and unhealthiest was narrow 200 years ago. Today it is disturbingly wide.

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