Blog Day Thirty: 200 Years of Progression of The World

Today in class we watched a video about the relationship between a country's lifespan and the country's GDP per capita. Hans Rosling showed us this data of 200 years in four minutes. In this video Rosling was trying to animate the data he collected in real space. To start in 1810 almost every country was in the bottom left corner of the graph, the lowest life span and smallest GDP per capita. At the time the UK and the Netherlands were at the top with the highest life span and GDP per capita. This mainly because the Industrial Revolution started to develop in these countries. As the graph started to go past the next few years you saw that the African and Asian nations are still stuck in the same corner all the other countries started in. This is because these countries were not involved in the Industrial Revolution. Moving forwards a few years, you saw many nations drop because of the Spanish Flu Epidemic and the First World War. Around 1930 China and India are still some of the poorest countries with the lowest life expectancy and the biggest population. Coming up to the most recent times, when the video was made, in 2009 almost every country has moved out of the poor and sick section of the graph. Rosling thinks that eventually all countries will be able to reach the top corner because of aid, trade, green technology, and peace. I really enjoyed watching this video. It was cool to see all the data progress on the graph. And since today is the 31st, HAPPY HALLOWEEN!