The World Is Actually Safer Than Ever. And Here's the Data to Prove It T.J. Raphael - PRI's The World
go to original October 24, 2014

A demonstrator holds a candle during a protest to demand information about the 43 missing students of the Ayotzinapa teachers' training college, in Mexico City October 22, 2014. (Tomas Bravo/Reuters)

Over the last six months, the news has been dominated by an onslaught of depressing headlines.

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Almost every week, stories about a scandal, a war, a disease, climate change, income inequality and a shaky economic recovery have dominated the news cycle, giving us all reasons to be terrified. But a new website, OurWorldInData.org, provides a much needed analysis about the good news out there.

Max Roser, an economist at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford University, is the creator of the Our World In Data website. And while it may seem like the world has gotten worse over time, Roser's data suggests that good things are happening, even if they take a bit of time.

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