Hans Rosling
speaker
326 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2010
last heard Apr 2015
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That's where China is.
That is where half India is.
The other half of India is very poor, but moving also.
So it's the whole way in which we sort it.
No, it's not that I see it differently.
It is differently.
It has been put very nicely lately.
Someone said we have to look upon Africa as we do with Asia.
No one say I will not invest nor would I like to go to holiday to Malaysia because there's such a war in Afghanistan.
We have come to judge each country in Asia on their own merits.
We know that Burma have had a terrible dictatorship.
and that Thailand has a shaky democracy, and that Vietnam has a clever communist party that is not democratic, but they are clever.
And in Africa, you know, something bad happens in one country, and you generalize it to the whole of the continent.
Basically, it's racism, because you don't keep the countries apart.
The number of children per woman in Addis Ababa today is 2.5.
The most educated part of the Ghanaian population have two or three children just.
I actually looked at Mali, the tragic coup d'etat, which was a major backlash in Africa.
Mali has 50 years life expectancy and have six children per woman.
Ghana has 67 years life expectancy and four children per woman.
This means that Ghana is halfway between Britain and Mali.
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