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What this does is measures all the stuff the Global Goals are trying to achieve, but sums it up into a single number that we can use as our benchmark and track
progress
over time.
In concrete terms, that means that the average human being is living on a level of social
progress
about the same of Cuba or Kazakhstan today.
And what that lets us do is understand the relationship between economic growth and social
progress.
So here on the vertical axis, I've put social progress, the stuff the Global Goals are trying to achieve.
And what this tells us is that as we get richer, social
progress
does tend to improve.
However, as we get richer, each extra dollar of GDP is buying us less and less social
progress.
We have a social
progress
score of 61 and a GDP per capita of $14,000.
So now the question is: if we get that much richer, how much social
progress
are we going to get?
Well, we asked a team of economists at Deloitte who checked and crunched the numbers, and they came back and said, well, look: if the world's average wealth goes from $14,000 a year to $23,000 a year, social
progress
is going to increase from 61 to 62.4.
So this is the average relationship between GDP and social progress, and this is what our last forecast was based on.
We have countries that are underperforming on social progress, relative to their wealth.
Now, on the other hand, we have countries that are overperforming on social
progress
relative to their GDP.
Costa Rica has prioritized education, health and environmental sustainability, and as a result, it's achieving a very high level of social progress, despite only having a rather modest GDP.
From poor countries like Rwanda to richer countries like New Zealand, we see that it's possible to get lots of social progress, even if your GDP is not so great.
Our choices matter: if we prioritize the well-being of people, then we can make a lot more
progress
than our GDP might expect.
What we know already: the world today is scoring 61 on social progress, and the place we want to get to is 75.
How much social
progress
does that get us?
We have to prioritize social progress, and really scale solutions around the world.
And we need to hold them to that promise by holding them accountable, tracking their
progress
all the way through the next 15 years.
They ask for every country to show action and to show
progress.
And that, then, I think, is to provide a point of focus for people to start demanding action and start demanding
progress.
So, after working with them I knew that even with one company, working on one issue, the
progress
that could be made.
Scientists, including SETI researchers, often tend to make very crude estimates and acknowledge that there are very large uncertainties in these estimates, in order to make
progress.
200
progress
toward adulthood.
Again, the current legal framework stays silent on hypothetical questions and countless others because there are no easy answers, and there are only two ways to make
progress
on these questions: peace or new laws.
Like understanding the mysteries of sleep or curing the common cold, motion sickness is one of those seemingly simple problems that, despite amazing scientific progress, we still know very little about.
We've made tremendous
progress
in seawater desalination in the past two decades.
Quantum teleportation may even
progress
so far, that one day your cat will escape to a safer galaxy, where there are no physicists and no boxes.
This was about scientific freedom, medical progress, the rights of patients.
The history of human
progress
is one of ever-increasing velocity, and one of the most important achievements in this historical race was the breaking of the sound barrier.
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