Is World Poverty Getting Worse?

Gapminder is an interactive presentation of some of the messages in the UN's 2005 Human Development Report and other developement statistics, created by the swedish scientist Hans Rosling. Poverty has been reduced more in the last 100 years then in the previous 100 000 years.

Try out Hans Rosling's Gapminder yourself at www.gapminder.org. Here's a direct link to the presentation in many languages (English, Norsk, Francais, Svensk, Dansk, Espanõl ...). You can even make your own sleek interactive bubble-charts.

See Hans Rosling presentation of his statistics - debunking third-world myths at TED. The best stats you've ever seen.