The World as 100 People Over the Last Two Centuries

More than 9 out of 10 people do not think that the world is getting better. How does that fit with the empirical evidence?

This visualization imagines our 200-year history as the history of a group of 100 people to see how the lives of them would have changed if they lived through this transformative period of the modern world. It shows at once some of the very largest problems we face and the progress that the last generations have made.