Factfulness

Hans Rosling, a Swedish physician and professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute, co-wrote it with Ola Rosling, his son, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund, his daughter-in-law. It argues that most people misjudge the world: test subjects rated it poorer, sicker and more dangerous than it is, and on simple questions about poverty, population growth and girls' schooling, many did worse than chimps guessing at random. The authors trace the errors to ten instincts, among them dividing the world into us and them and assuming things are getting worse. Four income levels replace the developed and developing labels. Published in 2018, a year after Hans Rosling died, it has also been criticized for painting too positive a picture.

Barack Obama included it on his best of 2018 list, and Bill Gates called its framework a breakthrough that had taken him decades of global development work to arrive at himself. Steven Pinker listed it in The Guardian among books to make readers optimists.