Year
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In 1900, there was about half a million people who died every
year
from natural disasters: floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruption, whatever, droughts.
These questions were a few of the first ones in the pilot phase of the Ignorance Project in Gapminder Foundation that we run, and it was started, this project, last
year
by my boss, and also my son, Ola Rosling.
We started the pilot last year, and now we're pretty sure that we will encounter a lot of ignorance across the whole world, and the idea is really to scale it up to all domains or dimensions of global development, such as climate, endangered species, human rights, gender equality, energy, finance.
We have some patent medicines, Canopic jars for your organs, communist soap that says, "This is your soap for the year."
China burns half the world's coal each year, and that's why, it is a key reason why, it is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
So the United Nations estimates that every year, there are 1.5 million child deaths because of inadequate sanitation.
We need to make it more robust, and we're going to do more testing in Malawi and South Africa this coming
year.
As it turned out, I would need that in reserve, because one
year
after my return, in, arguably, the safest place on earth, a bedroom at a friend's house, I fell from a third-story window onto the concrete below.
He was very proud of the fact that last year, he had two protégés: a man and a woman.
It's important for directors on boards to expect from their executives proportional pools of women when they sit down once a
year
for their succession discussions.
How much money does he spend on beer in a
year?
So you have these people aging, and now this is them today, or last
year.
I made it a
year
ago.
That's why this image was made one
year
ago, and what it means today.
Just to give you one example, this comes from the Forbes billionaire rankings over the 1987-2013 period, and you can see the very top wealth holders have been going up at six, seven percent per
year
in real terms above inflation, whereas average income in the world, average wealth in the world, have increased at only two percent per
year.
And I pulled out the exact same proposal that I had showed his boss a
year
earlier.
The pursuit of the perfect body is putting pressure on our healthcare systems and costing our governments billions of dollars every
year.
It was around this time that I became the first hijab-wearing model, and in my first year, I graced the covers of nine fashion magazines.
And so we took quite a leap of faith, and in August last year, we founded our own political party, El Partido de la Red, or the Net Party, in the city of Buenos Aires.
And taking an even bigger leap of faith, we ran for elections in October last
year
with this idea: if we want a seat in Congress, our candidate, our representatives were always going to vote according to what citizens decided on DemocracyOS.
There are millions of people who migrate each
year.
Here is a fact that might surprise you: 413 billion dollars, 413 billion dollars was the amount of remittances sent last
year
by migrants to developing countries.
So India, last year, received 72 billion dollars, larger than its IT exports.
Somalia, a country where the per capita income is only 250 dollars per
year.
If we reduce costs to one percent, that would release a saving of 30 billion dollars per
year.
Thirty billion dollars, that's larger than the entire bilateral aid budget going to Africa per
year.
A construction worker from Bangladesh, on an average, pays about 4,000 dollars in recruitment fees for a job that gives him only 2,000 dollars per
year
in income.
Last year, Mark Zuckerberg and his new wife purchased not only their own house but also all four adjacent houses in Palo Alto for a total of 30 million dollars in order to ensure that they enjoyed a zone of privacy that prevented other people from monitoring what they do in their personal lives.
In the last
year
alone, 2013, 6,000 people disappeared in the state of Rio.
At the end of last year, December 16, he received an eviction order by the Rio de Janeiro state government giving him two weeks to leave the space that he had been using for two years.
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