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%

 

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