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Oct
11
9 Charts to be Thankful For: Humanity is Getting Better
By Sakthi Karnan

It's not all bad news out there. For more data about how the world is getting better. Longevity: https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy/ Global poverty: https://www.vox.com/world/2016/10/2/13123980/extreme-poverty-world-bank Why the world bank uses a $1.90 a day poverty line: https://www.vox.com/2015/10/7/9465999/world-bank-poverty-line Hunger: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SN.ITK.DEFC.ZS Malaria: https://ourworldindata.org/malaria/ Child Labor: https://ourworldindata.org/child-labor/ War deaths: https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace/ Paris Climate accord: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/climate/syria-joins-paris-agreement.html?_r=0 Coal production: https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels/#coal-production-by-region Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO If you’d like to watch or listen to a conversation from 2014 between Ezra Klein and Charles Kenny (author of the book “Getting Better,”) about how the world is getting better, you can find that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6C8soxbN2w Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o