Hans Rosling was a medical doctor, professor of international health and renowned public educator. He was an adviser to the World Health Organization and UNICEF, and co-founded Médecins sans Frontières in Sweden and the Gapminder Foundation. His TED talks have been viewed more than 35 million times, and he was listed as one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. Hans died in 2017, having devoted the last years of his life to writing Factfulness.
A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work
off facts rather than our inherent biases.
*Barack Obama*
One of the most important books I've ever read-an indispensable
guide to thinking clearly about the world.
*Bill Gates*
A powerful antidote to pervasive pessimism and populist
untruths.
*Observer, Book of the Year*
Factfulness ... , a light-hearted but data-rich book, calibrates
our view of the world and explains how our cognitive processes can
lead us astray
*New Statesman, The best books of 2018*
Wonderful... a passionate and erudite message that is all the more
moving because it comes from beyond the grave... His knack for
presentation and delight in statistics come across on every page.
Who else would choose a chart of "guitars per capita" as a proxy
for human progress?
*Financial Times*
An immensely cheering book in these anxious times.
*The Times*
An assault both on ignorance and pessimism . . . helping countries
improve their governance and public health and opening them up to
the rule of law and market exchange works. But not by some sort of
magic. Because we act. And to this, as Rosling argues, we first
have to understand the world we live in.
*The Times*
A wonderful guide to an improving world, as well as being a
well-stocked source of sound advice as to how to think about
factual and statistical claims . . . The book is a pleasure to read
- simple, clear, memorable writing - and when you've finished
you'll be a lot wiser about the world. You'll also feel rather
happier . . . Factfulness - the relaxing peace of mind you get when
you have a clearer view of how the world really is . . . I strongly
recommend this book.
*Tim Harford*
We need more of this way of thinking, both in business and
politics. Where better to start than a new book by one of Gates'
favourite gurus, the late Swedish statistician Hans Rosling . . .
in an age of so-called post-truth, this is a celebration of the all
too often repudiated but underlying story of relentless human
progress.
*Sunday Telegraph*
[Bill] Gates had selected the tomes as his favourite summer reads .
. . [which included] feel-good non-fiction . . . celebrating
technological progress and genius, such as Hans Rosling's
Factfulness.
*FT Magazine*
Hans Rosling tells the story of "the secret silent miracle of human
progress" as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that.
It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and
teaches readers how to see it clearly.
*Melinda Gates*
Three minutes with Hans Rosling will change your mind about the
world.
*Nature*
Thoroughly researched and clearly written . . . this is a measured,
objective, and ultimately optimistic account of where we are and
how we got here.
*Independent*
Factfulness has the power to shift your entire perspective. If you
want to understand the world, read it now!
*Rolf Dobelli*
Triumphant.
*Sunday Times*
Bestselling books about statistics are as rare as unicorns. One
that gets to No.1 is as rare as a lunar unicorn. Factfulness by
Hans Rosling is that moon-based creature . . . engaging.
*The Times*
Factfulness is a fabulous read, succinct and lively. It asks why so
many people - including Nobel laureates and medical researchers -
get the numbers so wrong on pressing issues such as poverty,
pandemics and climate change... a just tribute to this book and the
man would be a global day of celebration for facts about our
world.
*Nature*
Rosling's final work is about the misconceptions most people hold
about the world we live in - it's better than we think - and a plea
to think critically.
*Metro*
An unexpectedly uplifting read.
*Emerald Street*
The message is refreshingly clear: when you only hold opinions
about things you know the facts about, you can see the world more
clearly.
*Mr Hyde*
I had very high expectations; the book exceeded them. Superb guide
to the world and how to be wiser about it. Great storytelling. An
inspiration.
*Tim Harford*
An insistently hopeful, fact-based booster shot for a doomsaying,
world-weary population [which] parts the dingy curtains of global
pessimism to reveal an alternate and uplifting perspective on the
state of world issues today. Co-written with Rosling's son and
daughter-in-law, the book effectively educates, uplifts, and
reassures readers. . . In compelling readers to comprehend the
positive aspects of world changes using practical thinking tools,
Rosling delivers a sunny global prognosis with a sigh of relief. -
Kirkus
[An] accessible, smart-thinking read which reveals the
preconceptions that make us misunderstand the way the world
works
*Daily Mirror*
[A] smart read
*Sunday Express*
It was such a hopeful book - it's about why society is better off
than we think and how many of the problems we think exist,
don't
*Vogue*
I recommend starting 2021 with the late Hans Rosling's book,
Factfulness - for incontrovertible evidence of "the secret, silent
miracle of human progress."
*Daily Mail*
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