Hans Rolling video

Today we watched and talked about the things that Hans Rolling said. He gave us a unique visualization of population and income trends over the last 200 years. He talked about the population of people like in China all the way to Luxembourg. We talked about the life expectancy and economy from 1810 all the way to 2009. Many countries including the United States were very low at that time and didn't start raising until 20 years later. Although now most countries like China have a growing economy and very few people dying at the rate of them dying many years ago. There is still countries that are struggling like Congo who people only live to their 30-40s and are very poor. Finally, Hans made a very optimistic saying where he thinks that in many years to come Congo and some other countries like it can reach the places like the United States.