20 positive facts about our world, proving that it's not so bad

Sometimes I read a lot of news for the day - and it seems all the terrible and peace is flying into the abyss! But this is just everyday information shum.Sayt remind: if step back and look at the picture of the world as a whole, it turns out that things are not so bad, on the contrary - things are humanity is the best! For example ...

1. From 1990 to 2011, mortality in children under 5 years of age decreased by 41%.

2. In 1990, died during childbirth 540,000 mothers. In 2010, the figure was 280 000.

3. In the world today, the average person gets paid 3 times more than those earned in 1950 godu.4. In the 17th and 18th century, the global

GDP per capita increased by 20%. In the 19th century, it rose sharply to 250%, and in the 20th reached unfathomable 900%

5. This means that by the end of this century the average person in developing countries will be able to receive annual income equivalent to today's 100 000 $.

6. From 1800, the average life expectancy in the world has doubled.





7. Global illiteracy rate dropped from 46% to 18% (compared with 1970 year).

8. For the next 30 years of professional education to get more people than in all of human history up to that point.

9. Just as in the 20th century, has been made more technological advances than in all of human history before.

10. In 2010, the number of people living in extreme poverty fell by 721 million compared with the 1981 year.

11. This means that the proportion of the world's population living in extreme poverty fell from 40% to 14%.





12. The global middle class now has access to more goods and services than ever before in history. Television, mobile phones and refrigerators have become readily available to him of goods.

13. People around the world say that began to feel happier, partly because of the struggle against poverty.

14. In 1995, the internet was connected less than 1% of the population in the world. Today that number is 40%.

15. Today, humanity is faced with wars and armed conflict less than during any other period in history.

16. Although the number of slaves in the world increased (as the world population as a whole) as compared with what it was 300 years ago, today there is not one country where slavery is legal. < br />




17. The mortality from homicide in Europe fell by 35 times over the period, from the Middle Ages up to the beginning of the 1900s.

18. Different countries with the lowest rates of imprisonment can also boast that their crime rate plummeted. A similar statistic applies to the abolition of the death penalty.

19. Despite the fact that the systemic racism, sexism and discrimination still exist in our society, the vast majority of governments to adopt laws allowing end discrimination.

20. These global statistics show a consistent reduction of forced labor, gender inequality and illiteracy throughout the world.

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