The news is wrong. Humanity is getting better. These stats prove it.
Pay no mind to what some old people, many talking heads, and all fear-mongerers say. The world is NOT getting worse. It’s getting better, even under controversial and sometimes divisive climates.
These recent stats compiled by USA Today, Business Insider, Factfulness, and Vox Media offer irrefutable proof. For example:
- Life expectancy has doubled over the last century
- “The hungry” have been reduced to just 10% over the last 50 years
- More than 90% of Earth have access to clean water now, leading to 40% fewer sanitary deaths
- Fewer than 10% of people live in extreme poverty—the global economy has never been richer
- The world is historically less violent—fewer wars and 40x fewer murders. The little that remains is just more televised and promoted now.
- We are reducing pollution and are much more literate than ever before
- Individual freedoms and democracy has never been higher
- Societies are more open to more genders, races, and orientations than ever before
- Teen pregnancy is in decline
- Cancer mortality is dropping
- Child mortality is just 4%, down from 40% in 1800
- Child labor is just 10% now, down from over 70% in 1800
- U.S. high school graduation is at an all-time high of 84%
- Fear is more irrational in richer economies, so the richer we are, the more fear-mongering we engage in
- Although social progress is slower than some liberals like to admit, it is slowly marching on and improving
The glass isn’t half empty, readers. It’s measurable fuller than ever before. Although the world is still imperfect, it’s on the way up more often than not.
First published to blakesnow.com in 2018