This backs up Hans Rosling's talk on "The best statistics you've ever seen" pretty well: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever

This backs up Hans Rosling's talk on "The best statistics you've ever seen" pretty well: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y... The world is definitely improving - from a health perspective. Of course you could talk about overpopulation as a chronic global problem as well, but in my opinion education on birth control will improve enough over the next few decades to help combat that.