I've updated my Short History of Global Living Conditions. here it is: ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-g…
@MaxCRoser Wait, 75% still live in poverty?? Surely that's not correct??
@MaxCRoser It looks like we're going to need a huge amount of economic progress and affordable energy to close that poverty gap, not just the extreme poverty one.
@MaxCRoser Shouldn't the measure of "poverty" be adjusted to something?! Not saying that the world is doing great on that front but surely there are better measures than $ in 2024?
@MaxCRoser 30 dollars a day is way above poverty. I lived on 5 dollars per day in the 1990s. It was not poverty. Yes, I can be 100x poorer than you but not in poverty. PPP matters.
@MaxCRoser looks like democracy peaked in 2016 exactly as i thought
@MaxCRoser Democracy didn't start til 1920 or the population in democratic countries was less than 1%?
@MaxCRoser @paulg This is great. Could you do a companion piece on suicide rates, anxiety, depression, ocean biodiversity, climate instability, and social isolation?