Industrial Revolution

One of the major outcomes of the Industrial Revolution was massive population growth. This led to a host of new issues for nation states to deal with (ie. food issues, changing family and work patterns, crime, pollution, etc.)

Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before – using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of ‘The Joy of Stats’ he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine. This video gives an indication of how industrialization and modernization powerfully transformed the world. While much of Europe shot ahead in the 1800s, many of today’s developing nations are now playing “catch up.”