{"id":6917,"date":"2017-03-16T07:24:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T07:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6917"},"modified":"2017-03-16T07:24:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T07:24:04","slug":"five-final-thoughts-though-not-from-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/03\/16\/five-final-thoughts-though-not-from-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Five final thoughts \u2013 though not from me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hans Rosling died earlier this year. \u00a0He was the statistician who brought world population (and other) data to life, especially through his TED talks and YouTube videos.<\/p>\n<p>He was the co-founder of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gapminder.org\">Gapminder.org<\/a>, which continues his work. \u00a0In his final BBC interview, Rosling highlighted five key ways that demographics are shaping the world around us. \u00a0You can read about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-39211144\">here<\/a>. \u00a0There are data on...<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fertility rates from 1917 projected to 2099 when Ghana's rate (1.9) is lower than that of France (2.0).<\/li>\n<li>population by continent\u00a0from 1950\u00a0projected to 2100\u00a0when Europe will have 6% and Africa 39%. \u00a0These were 22% &amp; 9% respectively in 1950.<\/li>\n<li>life expectancy\u00a0from 1917 projected to 2099 when that in the USA (88.9) will only just be longer than that in Bangladesh (87.5)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are also a lot of ifs and buts, of course, and much discussion. \u00a0Hans Rosling: his data live on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hans Rosling died earlier this year. \u00a0He was the statistician who brought world population (and other) data to life, especially through his TED talks and YouTube videos. He was the co-founder of\u00a0Gapminder.org, which continues his work. \u00a0In his final BBC...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}