Hans Rosling

Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adapt to this new world.

Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.

I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.

If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.

My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.