Rosling’s presentation constitutes him transferring his student’s mindset into a literal dataset. He does this as a means to present their argument in a visual manner. To them the dynamics of world issues are inherently us vs them, the developing world against impoverish countries. Their view has largely been assimilated and structured by the dataset most primed in their teacher’s youth.
Using data compiled by a census, Rosling criticizes the irrelevancy with which his students approach global issues. Their bias is to look down upon third-world countries as divergent and dated. When the dataset analyses individual countries, we see how vast of an improvement has been made by underdeveloped nations like Mexico and Singapore. Further dividing regions into more specific data shows that not all statistics are dependent on economy and development but on socio-cultural circumstances like war and prevalent diseases. An unfortunate limitation faced by this study is the possible inaccuracy of the data collected. When collected as a census, the possibility of pseudo-factual information or incomplete data is of a higher risk.
Rosling presents the notion that “underdeveloped” countries actually undergo social development much faster than some of the leading powers of the world; a convergence factor that sees conditions escalate on par with U.S. conditions rapidly. Upon viewing his presentation, it seems foolish to divide nations into two categories when there are many traits present within each country.
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