Hans Rosling Quotes

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
Hans Rosling

War, Human, Avoid

Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
Hans Rosling

Women, Children, May

Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
Hans Rosling

Through, Until, Nobody

Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
Hans Rosling

Political, Fact, Based

Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to 'Twitter' transatlantically.
Hans Rosling

Time, Great, Through

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
Hans Rosling

Good, Political, Decision

I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
Hans Rosling

Work, Serious, Emotion

I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
Hans Rosling

Age, Young, Fact

I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.
Hans Rosling

Change, Age, Children

I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
Hans Rosling

Done, Living, Poverty

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
Hans Rosling

Children, Child, Growing

To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
Hans Rosling

Time, Health, School

We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.
Hans Rosling

Change, Great, Within

Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.
Hans Rosling

Truth, Scared, Dislike

What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
Hans Rosling

Power, War, Rich

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.
Hans Rosling

Sleep, Someone, Thinking

You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.
Hans Rosling

Sometimes, Listen, Fit

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Nationality: Swedish

Born: July 27, 1948

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