Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling is a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician, and public speaker. He is the Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet and co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system. He rose to international celebrity status after producing a Ted Talk in which he promoted the use of data to explore development issues...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth27 July 1948
CountrySweden
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We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.
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The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.
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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.
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I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.
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Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.
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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. 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.
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My husband is my most valuable resource.
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As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.
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The database hugging in public institutions is hampering innovation.
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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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I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.
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Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adapt to this new world.