Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Anna was born in Falun, Sweden, in 1975. She holds degrees in sociology
from Lund University and photography from Gothenburg University and is a
cofounder and vice president of the Gapminder Foundation.
Anna is a lecturer and the guardian of the end user at Gapminder, making
sure that everything Gapminder does is easy to understand. Together with
Ola, Anna directed Hans’s TED talks and other lectures, developed the
Gapminder graphics and slides, and designed the user interface of the
animated bubble-chart tool Trendalyzer. When the tool was acquired by
Google in 2007, she went to work for Google as a senior usability designer. In
2010, Anna returned to Gapminder to develop new free teaching materials.
Dollar Street, launched in 2016, is Anna’s brainchild and the subject of her
2017 TED talk.
Anna has won several awards for her work at Gapminder, including a
Résumé Super-communicator Award, the Guldägget Titanpriset, and the Fast

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Company World Changing Ideas Award in 2017.
Anna is married to Ola Rosling. They have three children: Max, Ted, and
Ebba.
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FOOTNOTES
Chapter One: The Gap Instinct
Of course, if you live on Level 4 and have relatives living on Levels 2 or 3, you probably know what
their lives look like. If so, you can skip this section.
Chapter Two: The Negativity Instinct
You can track the progress of your country—or any country—using the freely available tool we use to
create our bubble charts, found at www.gapminder.org/tools.
Chapter Six: The Generalization Instinct
Visit Dollar Street here: 
www.dollarstreet.org
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Appendix: How Did Your Country Do?
South Korea and Japan actually beat the chimps on this question. We don’t know why yet. It could
have to do with the skewed age structures in these countries. It could be that the fall in the birth rate is
discussed more there than elsewhere. We have some more work to do to understand this.
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