Something like two or three billion people have been lifted out of abject poverty in the last thirty years. Global violent deaths are a fraction of what they w

Something like two or three billion people have been lifted out of abject poverty in the last thirty years. Global violent deaths are a fraction of what they were 50 years ago. The world is making huge progress; you’d never know it from the evening news, however. PS: The site you link classifies (correctly, in my view) conscription as slavery. I think if you’re going to compare then to now in terms of slavery, you should include conscription numbers in your historical figures too.