Hans Rosling Quotes

The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.

Let the dataset change your mindset

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.

My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.

Most people are not updated. 50 years ago 1 in 5 children died before age 5, now only 1 in 20!

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.

If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them.

Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.

Britain didn't win WWII by panicking. Let´s be bold, determined and stick to the best of values.

We must obviously be much more clever in using resources, regulate with tax and promote innovations.

It seems the public in Europe has not yet learnt that most girls in India today go to school.

What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.

My husband is my most valuable resource.