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

particularly thank Hans Wigzell, who bravely supported Gapminder from the
very beginning and who was with me until the last day, tirelessly trying to
figure out ways to prolong my life.
Above all, for their endless patience and love, my deep and sincere thanks
go to my teenage love, wife, and companion throughout my life, Agneta; to
my beloved children, Anna, Ola, and Magnus, and their spouses; and to my
grandchildren, Doris, Stig, Lars, Max, Ted, Ebba, Tiki, and Mino, who every
day give me hope for the future.
Ola, Anna, and I would also like to thank:
Jörgen Abrahamsson, Christian Ahlstedt, Johan Aldor, Chris Anderson, Ola
Awad, Julia Bachler, Carl-Johan Backman, Shaida Badiee, Moses Badio, Tim
Baker, Ulrika Baker, Jean-Pierre Banea-Mayambu, Archie Baron, Aluisio
Barros, Luke Bawo, Linus Bengtsson, Omar Benjelloun, Lasse Berg, Anna
Bergström, Staffan Bergström, Anita Bergsveen, BGC3, the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation, Sali Bitar, Pelle Bjerke, Stefan Blom, Anders Bolling,

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Staffan Bremmer, Robin Brittain-Long, Peter Byass, Arthur Câmara, Peter
Carlsson, Paul Cheung, Sung-Kyu Choi, Mario Cosby, Andrea Curtis, Jörn
Delvert, Kicki Delvert, Alisa Derevo, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Mohammed
Dunbar, Nelson Dunbar, Daniel Ek, Anna Mia Ekström, Ziad El-Khatib, Mats
Elzén, Klara Elzvik, Martin Eriksson, Erling Persson Foundation, Peter
Ewers, Mosoka Fallah, Ben Fausone, Per Fernström, Guenther Fink, Steven
Fisher, Luc Forsyth, Anders Frankenberg, Haishan Fu, Minou Fuglesang, Bill
Gates, Melinda Gates, George Gavrilis, Anna Gedda, Ricky Gevert, Marcus
Gianesco, Nils Petter Gleditsch, Google, Google Public Data team, Georg
Götmark, Olof Gränström, Erik Green, Ann-Charlotte Gyllenram, Catharina
Hagströmer, Sven Hagströmer, Nina Halden, Rasmus Hallberg, Esther
Hamblion, Mona Hammami and the team in Abu Dhabi behind Looking
Ahead, Katie Hampson, Hans Hansson, Jasper Heeffer, Per Heggenes, David
Herdies, Dan Hillman, Mattias Högberg, Ulf Högberg, Magnus Höglund,
Adam Holm, Anu Horsman, Matthias Horx, Abbe Ibrahim, IHCAR, IKEA
foundation, Dikena G. Jackson, Oskar Jalkevik and his team at
Transkribering.nu, Kent Janer, Jochnick Foundation, Claes Johansson, Jan-
Olov Johansson, Klara Johansson, Jan Jörnmark, Åsa Karlsson, Linley
Chiwona Karltun, Alan Kay, Haris Shah Khattak, Tariq Khokhar, Niclas
Kjellström-Matseke, Tom Kronhöffer, Asli Kulane, Hugo Lagercrantz,
Margaret Orunya Lamunu, Staffan Landin, Daniel Lapidus, Anna Rosling
Larsson, Jesper Larsson, Pali Lehohla, Martin Lidholt, Victor Lidholt, Henrik
Lindahl, Mattias Lindblad, Mattias Lindgren, Lars Lindkvist, Ann Lindstrand,
Per Liss, Terence Lo, Håkan Lobell, Per Löfberg, Anna Mariann Lundberg,
Karin Brunn Lundgren, Max Lundkvist, Rafael Luzano, Marcus Maeurer,
Ewa Magnusson, Lars Magnusson, Jacob Malmros, Niherewa Maselina,
Marissa Mayer, Branko Milanović, Zoriah Miller, Katayoon Moazzami,
Sibone Mocumbi, Anders Mohlin, Janet Rae Johnson Mondlane, Louis
Monier, Abela Mpobela, Paul Muret, Chris Murray, Hisham Najam, Sahar
Nejat, Martha Nicholson, Anders Nordström, Lennart Nordström, Marie
Nordström, Tolbert Nyenswah, Johan Nystrand, Martin Öhman, Max Orward,
Gudrun Østby, Will Page, Francois Pelletier, Karl-Johan Persson, Stefan
Persson, Måns Peterson, Stefan Swartling Peterson, Thiago Porto, Postcode
Foundation, Arash Pournouri, Amir Rahnama, Joachim Retzlaff, Hannah
Ritchie, Ingegerd Rooth, Anders Rönnlund, David Rönnlund, Quiyan
Rönnlund, Thomas Rönnlund, Max Roser and The World in Data team,
Magnus Rosling, Pia Rosling, Siri Aas Rustad, Gabrielá Sá, Love Sahlin,
Xavier Sala-i-Martín, Fia-Stina Sandlund, Ian Saunders, Dmitriy Shekhovtsov
and his Valor Software, Harpal Shergill, Sida, Jeroen Smits, Cosimo Spada,
Katie Stanton, Bo Stenson, Karin Strand, Eric Swanson, Amirhossein Takian,

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Lorine Zineb Nora “Loreen” Talhaoui, Manuel Tamez, Andreas Forø
Tollefsen, Edward Tufte, Torkild Tylleskär, UNDP, Henrik Urdal, Bas van
Leeuwen, the family of Johan Vesterlund, Cesar Victoria, Johan von Schreeb,
Alem Walji, Jacob Wallenberg, Eva Wallstam, Rolf Widgren, John Willmoth,
Agnes Wold, Fredrik Wollsén and his team, World Health Organization,
World We Want Foundation, Danzhen You, Guohua Zheng, and Zhang
Zhongxing.
Mattias Lindgren for compiling most of the Gapminder historic time series
for the economy and demography. All my students and doctoral students,
from whom I learned so much, all the teachers and students who welcomed us
to their schools to help us test our materials, all the amazing consultants
around the world who have helped us, Jimmy Wales and the voluntary editors
on Wikipedia, and all the Dollar Street families and photographers.
The previous and current board members of the Gapminder Foundation for
their wise and stable support: Hans Wigzell, Christer Gunnarsson, Bo
Sundgren, Gun-Britt Andersson, and Helena Nordenstedt (who also helped
with fact-checking). And our amazing Gapminder team, Angie Skazka,
Gabriela Sá, Jasper Heeffer, Klara Elzvik, Mikael Arevius, and Olof
Gränström, headed by Fernanda Drumond, who tirelessly continued to
develop Gapminder’s free teaching materials while we finished this book.
And who also gave invaluable input to the manuscript!
And finally, our wonderful friends and families, for being patient with us
and for helping us throughout the process. You know who you are. Without
you this book would not have been possible. Thank you.
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