200 years of progress
Our World in Data shows how much better the planet is now than 200 years ago. Here’s what has changed in the last 200 years:
- Proportion in extreme poverty dropped from 94% to 10%
- Proportion illiterate dropped from 88% to 15%
- Child mortality rate dropped from 43% to 4%
- Proportion living in a democracy increased from 0.9% to 56%
- Proportion with no education dropped from 83% to 14%
- Vaccination rate gone from 0% to 86%