Gapminder

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A non-profit fighting devastating misconceptions with a fact-based worldview everyone can understand.

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    Mar 14

    This is an absolutely brilliant website - I've had my mind blown 5 times in as many minutes. A wonderful place to bust misconceptions and find hope.

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    Feb 8
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    THIS is exactly why we created Rather than focusing on what is wrong in the world at any given time, this tool is designed to help rid yourself of common systematic misconceptions about global development. Created by the authors of

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    Feb 7
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    Please all, check out founded by Hans Rosling (deceased unfortunately) to learn on how mankind progressed over time!

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    Feb 1
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    Related: the "climate bathtub" helps show why cutting emissions still leads to rising levels in the atmosphere: The tap represents emissions. The volume of water in the tub = level in the atmosphere. Turning down the tap still increases tub volume.

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    Feb 1

    Try this question about greenhouse gas emissions..........it's an important one

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    Jan 21

    On a global poll by , 45% guessed AIDS, 43% guessed war, and 11% guessed the correct answer: heart disease and strokes. War was the most wrong, since it causes only 0.3% of deaths in Africa.

    What causes most deaths in Africa?
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    Jan 28

    "When people hear «low income countries», they assume it's a lot of poeple. These are the kind of systematic misconceptions that we measure." Se mer fra og andre høydepunkter fra Norad-konferansen her:

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  8. Jan 27

    Honduras just got its first female president, adding 1 to a trend which is among the least known trends in the world! — Up to 1990, 18 countries in the world had been led by a female head of state or government. What was that number in 2021? (See: )

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  9. Jan 25

    Test your basic climate assumptions. Are you wrong, like most people are?

    - if we half the amount of co2 emission, its still filling up our atmosphere. Says
, in at the
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    Jan 25

    I’m confronting some major global misconceptions, at 1:30 pm today. Especially the absurd idea that there are two types of countries! Please :🙃Stop saying “developing world “ or “global south”. Such dichotomies is BS. If you must bundle countries, use 4 income groups instead!

    Noradkonferansen 2022 strømmes direkte på forsida kl 09 til 1415. På talerlisten er Esther Duflo, Bill Gates, Ayoade Alakija, Thomas Piketty, Fatih Birol, Achim Steiner, Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Ola Rosling, Bård Vegar Solhjell >>
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  11. Jan 24

    — How misunderstood is your country? During the past 2 years we have tested people's misunderstandings about all countries. Here's the first sneak peek of the new Gapminder Misconception Index, announced at last week:

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  12. Jan 14

    - Which group of countries sent the most troops on UN peacekeeping missions during the past 5 years? (Please, first try answer, then check the right answer here: )

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  13. Jan 12

    Congrats followers! Most of you answered correctly: the number of oil spills declined. Please test your friends, siblings, neighbors and colleagues, who probably always guess that things are getting worse. And then test yourself with our next question:

    —What happened to the annual number of oil spills from tankers worldwide since the 1970s? (Please try answer first, then check correct answere here: )
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  14. Jan 12

    — How many of the world’s 250 richest companies describe climate change as a risk in their annual reports? ( Please, first try answer, then check correct answer here: )

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  15. Jan 11

    This free tool shows the number of people on different incomes, for all countries in the world, since year 1800.

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  16. Jan 11

    —What happened to the annual number of oil spills from tankers worldwide since the 1970s? (Please try answer first, then check correct answere here: )

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    Jan 6

    Team, we are just one step away! has just announced it wants to make its data open for everyone. Now it's on the governments of the world's richest countries to agree & make it happen. Congrats everyone on this massive effort. One final push 🙌🏻

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  18. Jan 7

    85% of people get this question wrong - What group of animals has the highest share of threatened species?:

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  19. Jan 5

    People don’t know that almost all countries signed the Paris Climate Agreement. Whatever the signature is worth… a decade earlier, most wouldn’t have signed. (A good reason to sign: now a majority see climate change as a threat, which most don’t know:

    Dear followers, most of you know that almost all countries signed the Paris Climate agreement, but please understand that most people around you believe it was signed by few countries! They believe few care about the climate.
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  20. Jan 5

    Dear followers, most of you know that almost all countries signed the Paris Climate agreement, but please understand that most people around you believe it was signed by few countries! They believe few care about the climate.

    — How many of the world’s 195 countries have signed the Paris Agreement on climate change and the environment? (92% answer wrong. Correct answer here: )
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