Factfulness

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
AuthorHans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherFlatiron Books (US)
Sceptre (UK)
Publication date
April 3, 2018
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages341
ISBN978-1-250-10781-7
WebsiteGapminder: Factfulness (the book)

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think is a 2018 book by Swedish physician, professor of international health at Karolinska Institute[1] and statistician Hans Rosling with his son Ola Rosling and daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Rönnlund. The book was published posthumously a year after Hans Rosling died from pancreatic cancer.[2] In the book, Rosling suggests that the vast majority of people are wrong about the state of the world. He demonstrates that his test subjects believe the world is poorer, less healthy, and more dangerous than it actually is, attributing this not to random chance but to misinformation.[3][4]

Rosling recommends thinking about the world as divided into four levels based on income brackets (rather than the prototypical developed/developing framework) and suggests ten instincts that prevent us from seeing real progress in the world.[5][6]

Bill Gates highlighted the book as one of his suggested five books worth reading for summer 2018, offering to purchase a copy for any 2018 college graduate upon request.[7]

  1. ^ "Hans Rosling". Karolinska Institutet. Archived from the original on 12 August 2011. Professor of Public Health Science at the Department of Public Health Sciences since 1997
  2. ^ Milken, Michael. "Forbes All-Star Book Club: Michael Milken Reviews 'Factfulness'". Forbes.
  3. ^ Hardyment, Christina (2018). "Review: Factfulness by Hans Rosling, read by Simon Slater". The Times.
  4. ^ Millen, Robbie (2018). "Review: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling". The Times.
  5. ^ Mahadevan-Dasgupta, Uma (2018). "Factfulness review: The miracle of human progress". The Hindu.
  6. ^ Brueck, Hilary (April 4, 2018). "The author of one of Bill Gates' favorite books says the world isn't as apocalyptic as you might think - here are five of his top reasons why". Business Insider. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
  7. ^ Gates, Bill (May 21, 2018). "5 books worth reading this summer". Retrieved October 4, 2018.

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