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28 quotes by Hans Rosling

Hans Rosling (born 27 July 1948) is a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker. He is Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute and co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system.
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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.... →

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The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way... →

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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in... →

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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.

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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.

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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will... →

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I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has... →

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I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the... →

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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... →

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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St.... →

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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.

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