(Global) - '..the progress most countries have made in recent decades.'

'So almost 80% of mankind now lives in societies where the two child families are most common and 80% of adults in the world can read and write, and 80% of the one-year-olds have been vaccinated and the life expectancy of the world population as a whole is 70 years.'

<blockquote>'Most people are yet to learn about the progress most countries have made in recent decades. The reason media and schools have failed to communicate a fact-based world view is probably due to the continuous use of the outdated concept of a "Developing World." A mindset upgrade with a division of countries into more than two groups is long overdue.

..

So almost 80% of mankind now lives in societies where the two child families are most common and 80% of adults in the world can read and write, and 80% of the one-year-olds have been vaccinated and the life expectancy of the world population as a whole is 70 years.

The percentage living in extreme poverty fell to half in the last 20 years, from 40% to 20%. So yet in this new and better world 1-2 billion still live in extreme poverty, cannot send all children to primary school, and are not sure to have enough food to eat. They live in rural areas in low income and lower middle income countries. That means mainly in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia with less than $4000 in Gross National Income per capita.

So in short, the world is better than ever, yet very far from good!'

- Dr. Hans Rosling, Changing world: Why developing vs. developed is now meaningless, December 10, 2013</blockquote>


Context

<blockquote>World Population Prospects

Presentation: Phase I (2012 - 2022) - The Beginning

(Global Issues - '..a whole world to change..') - 'All EU fish stocks are to be fished using the new, more sustainable methods by 2015..'


Nelson Mandela - You can blow out a candle But you can't blow out a fire

(Open Source) - The International Laboratory for the Identification of New Drugs - '..new antibiotics..'

(Global, upgrading production) - '..To Put A 3D Printer In Every School..' - '..New Smartphone Will Be 3D Printed..'


'..Iran in Geneva..'</blockquote>