Progress
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What’s it about?
A data-driven antidote to doomism, showing that on almost every measure—from poverty to violence to life expectancy—humanity has never been better off.
You’ll learn
- Extreme poverty has plummeted from 40% to under 10%
- Global life expectancy has more than doubled since 1900
- We live in the most peaceful era in human history
- Progress is driven by knowledge exchange and free trade