What do you know about the world?

What do you know about the world?

by Henrik

How do you explain the different colours?

Persons/sq km!

(Source: http:// apod.nasa.gov / apod /ap030305.html )

In 2006 National Geographic interviewed 500 adults aged 18-24 in the USA (nationwide representative sample).

(Source: http:// www.nationalgeographic.com /roper2006/ findings.html )

One of the questions was:

The answer was…

In 2002 National Geographic interviewed 300 adults (randomly selected) aged 18 – 24 from each of 9 countries (in the USA they even interviewed 500).

Which two countries in the world have a population of more than 1 billion?

(Source: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geosurvey2002/download/RoperSurvey.pdf )

% with correct answer…

Which country has the highest child mortality of each pair?

Sri Lanka or Turkey?

Poland or South Korea?

Malaysia or Russia?

Pakistan or Vietnam?

Thailand or South Africa?

Which country has the highest child mortality?

Sri Lanka or Turkey

Poland or South Korea

Malaysia or Russia

Pakistan or Vietnam

Thailand or South Africa

Watch what happened when he asked the

questions about child mortality to top students:

Rosling’s lecture ”Debunking myth about the third world”

http://www.gapminder.org/video/talks/ted-2006---debunking-myth-about-the-third-world.html

More from mr. Rosling and his researchers:

Get it all at: http://www.gapminder.org

Another great lecture: http://www.gapminder.org/video/talks/ted-2007---the-seemingly-impossible-is-possible.html

Mr. Hans Roslin blogg: http:// roslingsblogger.blogspot.com /

Mr. Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, has challenged our perception of today’s world by making statistics come alive!

How many people live on the earth today?

University of Oregon has a population clock:

http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/population/Population.html

International Data Base (IDB) claims that in October 2007 there were: 6,602,236,753 people in the world!

Source: http://www.prb.org/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleHaveEverLivedonEarth.aspx

… or in other words:

1 out of 20 people who has ever lived on this planet – lives right now!

If we think of the world as one big village with 100 inhabitants there would be about:

? Asians

? Africans

? Europeans

? Latin Americans

? US Americans and Canadians

Source: http://users.gazinter.net/melan/Warn/Warnenu.htm

If we think of the world as one big village with 100 inhabitants there would be about:

60 Asians

14 Africans

12 Europeans

8 Latin Americans

5 US Americans and Canadians

Source: http://users.gazinter.net/melan/Warn/Warnenu.htm

Which countries have the largest populations in the world? 1. ? 2. ? 3. ? 4. ? 5. ? 6. ? 7. ? 8. ? 9. ? 10. ?

Population 2006:

1. China 1 323 600 000

2. India 1 119 500 000

3. USA 301 000 000

4. Indonesia 225 500 000

5. Brazil 188 900 000

6. Pakistan 161 200 000

7. Bangladesh 144 400 000

8. Russia 142 500 000

9. Nigeria 134 400 000

10. Japan 128 200 000

Source: http://www.ui.se/

Bangladesh Nigeria Pakistan China Indonesia

Which countries have the highest gross domestic product (GDP)?

1. ? 2. ? 3. ? 4. ? 5. ? 6. ? 7. ? 8. ? 9. ? 10. ?

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal )

GDP per capita – a map

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:GDP_PPP_per_capita_world_map_IMF_figures_year_2006%282%29.png

Reporters without Borders have a list of 168 countries. The list is called ”Wordwide Press Freedom Index 2006”. Which countries are at the bottom of that list?

159. ? 160. ? 161. ? 162. ? 163. ? 164. ? 165. ? 166. ? 167. ? 168. ?

159 Nepal

160 Ethiopia

161 Saudi Arabia

162 Iran

163 China

164 Burma

165 Cuba

166 Eritrea

167 Turkmenistan

168 North Korea

Source: http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=639

The map reflects the findings of Freedom House's survey Freedom in the World 2007. For each country, the survey provides a concise report on political and human rights developments, along with ratings of political rights and civil liberties. Based on these ratings, countries are divided into three categories: Free (green), Partly Free (orange), and Not Free (red), as reflected in the map. Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Freedom_House_world_map_2007.png Source: http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2007

Which countries have the highest military spending of the world?

1. ? 2. ? 3. ? 4. ? 5. ? 6. ? 7. ? 8. ? 9. ? 10. ?

Military budget 2004-2005 US dollar

1. USA 465 000 000 000

2. China 62 500 000 000

3. Russia 61 900 000 000

4. France 51 600 000 000

5. United King. 51 100 000 000

6. Japan 44 700 000 000

7. Italy 30 500 000 000

8. Germany 30 200 000 000

9. India 22 000 000 000

10. Saudiarab. 21 300 000 000

Source: www.ui.se

Relative Military Spending by the nations of the world, ca. 2003: Relative Military Spending by the nations of the world, ca. 2003:

Mr. Fredrik Härén, awarded ”Speaker of the year 2006 – 2007 in Sweden”, talks about ideas, creativity and globalization. He claims that students in Sweden and in many other western countries live in one world (west). The Asian students know about the west AND Asia (east). To prove this Mr. Härén in a fun and provocative way puts the students (and his audience) to a simple test:

China has the largest population in the world – name the leader of China!

India has the second largest population in the world – name the leader of India!

” How many of you can name both of these leaders? The Chinese students can do this – and they ALSO know the leaders of the USA and the UK…”

China, chief of state: President HU Jintao (since 15 March 2003)

India, head of government: Prime Minister Manmohan SINGH (since 22 May 2004)

Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

According to Mr. Härén the Swedish TV broadcasts more about the presidential election in the USA one and half years before the election than when there is an election actually taking place in India.

Research in Sweden shows that when the TV-news tell us about something which has a connection to Islam or Muslims ?? % of the the news items have something to do with some sort of violence.

?? - How many percent do you think?

86 %

This research concerned the years

1991 – 1995…

Source: http://www.socforsk.se/proj.asp?dianr=F0155/1991

Soruce: magazine ”Fjärde världen” 2 – 3 1998.

In 2006 National Geographic interviewed 500 adults aged 18-24 in the USA (nationwide representative sample).

(Source: http:// www.nationalgeographic.com /roper2006/ findings.html )

The answer…

Michael McFaul, professor of political science at Stanford University, writes in 2004:

" Democracy as an international norm is stronger today than ever before " (p. 149)

“ Wealthier countries do have a greater prospect of sustaining democratic regimes

than poorer countries. Yet, little evidence suggests that only wealthy

people desire democracy, nor do cultural and religious differences vary support

for democracy as a value. Instead, survey data suggest that support for democracy

is robust and at relatively similar levels in every region of the world.

Furthermore, in the Arab world, surveys suggest that a strong commitment to

Islamic ideas does not hinder the embrace of democratic principles. The real

values gap between the Arab world and the West does not concern the general

concept of democracy as a system of rule but is rather found in men’s attitudes

toward the rights of women. Polls conducted by the World Values

Survey team show that support for antidemocratic ideologies varies throughout

the world, with respondents in some countries ready to trade some democracy

for more order. In no country surveyed, however, does support for

dictatorship exceed support for democracy .” (p. 152, notes excluded in this quotation)

Source: http://www.twq.com/05winter/docs/05winter_mcfaul.pdf

According to http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org

the top 10 most UNDERREPORTED humanitarian stories of 2006 were these:

Somalia | Central African Republic | Tuberculosis | Chechnya | Sri Lanka | Malnutrition | Democratic Republic of Congo | Colombia | Haiti | Central India

source: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/reports/2007/top10_2006.htm

Out of the 14,512 minutes of nightly newscast by the three major U.S. television networks in 2006, how many minutes were given to these 10 countries and contexts?

According to Andrew

Tyndall, publisher of the

online media-tracking

journal The Tyndall Report,

the 10 countries and

contexts highlighted by MSF

(Medecins sans frontiers =

doctors without borders)

accounted for just

7.2 minutes of the 14,512

minutes on the three major

U.S. television networks'

nightly newscasts for 2006.

source: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/pr/2007/01-09-2007.cfm

Which countries in the world have the highest percentage of women

infected with HIV?

1. ? 2. ? 3. ? 4. ? 5. ? 6. ? 7. ? 8. ? 9. ? 10. ?

Women with HIV 2005: 1. Swaziland 40 % 2. Botswana 31,9 % 3. Lesotho 27 % 4. Zimbabwe 25 % 5. Namibia 23,8 % 6. South Africa 22,5 % 7. Zambia 20 % 8. Mozambique 19,2 % 9. Malawi 16,5 % 10. Central African Republic 12,7 % source: www.ui.se Read a report about ” The impact of HIV/AIDS on the Economy, Livelihoods and Poverty of Malawi” http://www.sida.se/?d=118&a=19668&language=en_US

Source: http://data.unaids.org/pub/EpiReport/2006/Epicore2006_27Oct06_en.pdf

How many % of the seats in world parliaments are occupied by men?

85 %

Source: http://www.globalportalen.org/222.htm

The same source also tells us that:

- 99 % of world fortunes are owned by men

- More women are killed through domestic violence than people who die in war (armed conflicts)

Scientists think that the ice cap at the North Pole will be gone before… 2050… maybe 2027…

Sources:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/12/MNGE5MTQ211.DTL

There are many youtube videos about this issue…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6VTiHTEM08

(by a man called ”furmilo”)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5tm3RPGkfU&mode=related&search

(by ”lovuian”)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neXB1XzMu7Y&mode=related&search

(by ” schnippschnappcroco”)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_VtbPfe1bs&mode=related&search

(by ” LCVheatison”)

Did you know? "One laptop per child" or “The $100 laptop project” is expecting to ship between 50 and 100 million laptops a year to children in underdeveloped countries.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%24100_laptop

Did you know that MIT ( http://web.mit.edu/ ) publish their course materials online? There are over 1,800 courses with lecture notes, problem sets, labs, video lectures and so on... for free!

Source: http:// ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/about/about/index.htm

What does all this mean for the future do you think?

Does it matter what I, you, and we do?

We learn from almost every person we meet.

It sometimes takes a while to understand what

we have learnt and how do deal with it.

That’s why you can change another human

being. What you say and do can start

to live in that other person. And that person

can pass it on… like rings on water.

So what you do in life does not just echoe in eternity

– it matters right here and now!

Watch people from all over the world more closelsy at: http://www.adenko.com/worldx2/people/peopleall.html The end of this powerpoint presentation – thanks for reading!