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 ha…

- Hans Rosling

To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the…

- Hans Rosling

Let the dataset change your mindset

- Hans Rosling

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries -…

- Hans Rosling

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

- Hans Rosling

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

- Hans Rosling

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

- Hans Rosling

My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's …

- Hans Rosling

The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.

- Hans Rosling