Learning Through TED – Hans Rosling

TASK: Watch Hans Rosling’s TED Talk on “Global Population Growth, Box by Box”.
Answer the questions below:

1. How has Rosling’s presentation technique developed?
2. What was the world like in 1960?
3. What does Rosling think about the mindset of ‘the West and the rest’?
4. What is the size of the world population today?
5. How many people live in the emerging economies?
6. What is their family size? And what do they aspire to?
7. What will happen in the future?
8. What’s the difference in population growth between the poorest 2 billion and the others?
9. How can population growth be stopped?
10. What leads to higher child survival?
11. What is Rosling’s hope for the future?
12. Rosling is neither an optimist nor a pessimist. What is he? And based on what is this?
13. What is the role of the ‘old west’ in the new world