Reason.com
200 Years of Health and Wealth Data for 200 Countries in 4 Minutes
Start your weekend off right with this short, snappy data-driven video about the astonishing growth of health and wealth in the world in the last 200 years.
Most Popular Stories
- Here Are the 15 Senators Who Voted to Stop Armed FDA Agents From Conducting Warrantless Raids on America's Farmers (Not One of Them is a Democrat) (5.24)
- When Government Privileges Trump the Rights of Citizens (5.25)
- Is the Ron Paul the Best Hope for Progressives? (5.25)
- Rand Paul Amendment to Stop Armed FDA Agents From Raiding Farms Fails, 78-15 (5.24)
- Friday Funnies (5.25)
Reason RUPE: Public Opinion Survey
- Reason-Rupe: Wisconsinites Favor Increasing Public Union Retirement Contributions to Address Budget Deficit (5.25)
- Reason-Rupe Poll Finds Support for Public Union Reforms (5.25)
- New Poll: Obama Leads Romney In Wisconsin, But Gary Johnson Could Impact the Race (5.24)
- Wisconsin Recall: Walker Leads Barrett 50-42 Among Likely Voters (5.24)
- Reason-Rupe Poll: Walker Leads Barrett 50-42, Obama Leads Romney 46-36 (5.24)
advertisements
Reason on Facebook
Reason on Twitter
Reason on YouTube
Reason RSSGet Reason E-mail Updates!
Manage your Reason e-mail list subscriptionsSite comments/questions:
Media Inquiries and Reprint Permissions:
(310) 367-6109
Editorial & Production Offices:
3415 S. Sepulveda Blvd.
Suite 400
Los Angeles, CA 90034
(310) 391-2245
Editor's Note: We invite comments and request that they be civil and on-topic. We do not moderate or assume any responsibility for comments, which are owned by the readers who post them. Comments do not represent the views of Reason.com or Reason Foundation. We reserve the right to delete any comment or disable your ability to comment for any reason at any time.
Mad Scientist|12.3.10 @ 4:43PM|#
OK, that was frickin' cool.
|12.3.10 @ 5:05PM|#
Yes, yes, yes... billions of people living three times longer with a hundred times the wealth. Whatever.
What about the polar bear all alone on that little piece of ice?
nekoxgirl|12.4.10 @ 6:19PM|#
It's sad that what you said is pretty much the sentiment of all the liberal commentators on Youtube. No, let's not continue with what we are doing in the last 200 years. You know, that free market/capitalism thing that has just been shown to be extremely successful for the entire world. There might be an ecological collapse and push us all down into poverty! Let's go voluntarily back into poverty instead and make it inevitable.
|12.3.10 @ 5:13PM|#
My God, look at all of that income inequality. We must return to 1810 for fairness' sake!
|12.3.10 @ 5:16PM|#
Yeah, whatever. We're doomed, I tells ya, DOOOMED!
|12.3.10 @ 5:27PM|#
Did you guys catch the life expectancy drop in China during the Cultural Revolution? It must have been on the order of 30 years lower average life expectancy. Holy Crap!
nekoxgirl|12.3.10 @ 10:44PM|#
I guess murdering over 40 million people has a negative effect on life expectancy.
cynical|12.3.10 @ 11:28PM|#
That was fucking insane. Someone should make an annotated version pointing that out and send it to all the Maoist cocksuckers (and that whore Friedman) out there.
Walter MaoDuranty|12.5.10 @ 11:05AM|#
Not true, not a bit of it, Mao and his cadres were supernaturally smart.
Brian Sorgatz|12.3.10 @ 5:28PM|#
And yet, a gloomy, despairing view of the future is often treated as a sign of intellectual sophistication. Go figure.
Fiscal Meth|12.3.10 @ 6:09PM|#
That's fantastic.
Chupacabra|12.3.10 @ 6:23PM|#
None of this would have been possible without government.
-Joe Biden
|12.3.10 @ 7:43PM|#
Very cool, and while I find the addition of "green technologies" into his list of things that made the last 60 years so prosperous and healthy, overall the the presentation is a giant boot to the crotch of the anti-globalization/anti-free trade jackholes.
Name|12.3.10 @ 8:38PM|#
what he means by "green technologies" is the agricultural "green revolution" of the the past 60 years and the increased yields that came with it, Norman Borlaug and all that
|12.4.10 @ 12:59PM|#
OKay...never mind.
ev|12.4.10 @ 2:12AM|#
I've been watching this dude's videos on TED the last few days. He's fucking ridiculously cool. I recommend all of them.