Hans Rosling Quotes

• You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.

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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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• 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?

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• Well, the truth is I’m very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.

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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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• 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.

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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’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 poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can’t use it for progress.

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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 stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.

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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 world.

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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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• Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to ‘Twitter’ transatlantically.

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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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• 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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• 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 be slow.

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• Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

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Hans Rosling (16)

Birth:	27th July, 1948
Nationality:	Swedish
Profession:	Physician, Professor, Speaker, Statistician

About

Hans Rosling was born in Uppsala, Sweden. He is a Swedish physician, professor, statistician and public speaker. From 1967 to 1974 he studied statistics and medicine at Uppsala University. He became a licensed physician in 1976 and from 1979 to 1981 he served as District Medical Officer in Nacala in northern Mozambique. He discovered an outbreak of konzo, a paralytic disease, and the investigations that followed earned him a Ph.D. degree at Uppsala University in 1986. 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. The Foreign Magazine named him one of the “100 Top Global Thinkers of 2009”.

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