It’s great to see a bunch of OWID charts here. For those interested, Nick Kristof does an article reflecting on the year gone by nearly every year. Here is his most recent one!
I really liked the way he ended the article:
I’m a backpacker, and sometimes, on a steep slog uphill through pelting rain or snow, it’s good to rest against a tree for a moment and try to remember that hiking is fun — to recharge myself for the next push uphill. That’s likewise the usefulness of a periodic reminder that the arc of human progress is still evident in metrics that matter most, such as the risk of a child dying, and that we truly can get over the next damn hill.
It’s great to see a bunch of OWID charts here. For those interested, Nick Kristof does an article reflecting on the year gone by nearly every year. Here is his most recent one!
I really liked the way he ended the article: