Those are certainly examples of countries that have gone backwards in income and life expectancy over some of the recent years. However, the vast majority of co

Those are certainly examples of countries that have gone backwards in income and life expectancy over some of the recent years. However, the vast majority of countries have seen huge increases in average income and life expectancy over the last 100 years, 50 years, etc. Source: https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#_chart-type=bubbles https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#_chart-type=bubbles