Bill Gates announced four charts to prove the world is getting better

The world's top billionaire, Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda Gates , believe that the future of humanity will be full of optimism and not as bad as what we often think. The most powerful couple in the world also wants that you should believe that, because after all, the future of humanity is still in our hands.

According to the chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ( the largest charity in the world, funded by Bill Gates, the president and founder of Microsoft Corporation ) explained the parameters contained in the " letter Gates - Gates Letter "2017 recently an annual routine reporting on the global development process was organized charity Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation told us that:" This world is still moving in the direction better direction ".

Scott Olson / Getty Images

Specifically, the letter said: " Humans no longer have poverty, sickness or inequality as they once experienced it before ."

In Gates's letter, the parameter is given by a kind of graphs, graphs and statistics illustrating the most remarkable leaps of humanity. Here are four graphs that, according to the description, are best liked by Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates, and also show the most up-to-date changes of the world at this time.

1. Polio vaccine has been proven extremely effective

Gates Letter

New polio cases have not been relieved in the last 17 years - because most of them have reached nearly zero already.

In the past 64 years, since researcher Jonas Salk developed the first doses of anti-polio vaccine, countries around the world have collaborated to vaccinate the entire population. As a result, China has carried out the final treatment of polio in the mid-1990s, and India has achieved it but is about 20 years behind China.

As of 2016, there are less than 40 new cases of polio worldwide. Currently, only 4 countries in the world can not completely eliminate this disease, including Pakistan and Afghanistan.

2. Modern contraceptives are used more than ever

Gates Letter

One of the most effective methods to ensure economic development, as well as a successful society is empowering women . And the good news is that it's being done very well. In the 2015 Gates Letter, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation once noted that the results of investing in women's health will help global human resources become stronger and then a more solid economy.

In many developing countries, birth rates are extremely high. This is because women try to get pregnant more, because they think that some of their children will not survive adolescence. Being a child is the factor that makes the family life of women in the middle of poverty, poorer and poorer - a vicious cycle.

The solution here is the birth control pill. According to statistics, in 2016, about 300 million women from the 69 poorest countries in the world use one of the contraceptives, a 10-fold increase compared to the 30 million women of 2012. Reduce reduce pregnancy and childbirth, women have more time to focus on themselves and take care of their families, contributing to a healthy society.

3. 122 million child lives are saved in the last 20 years

Gates Letter

Bill Gates called this the most beautiful chart in the world.

From 1990 until 2015, the number of children who died before their fifth birthday fell by half, from 12.1 million to only 5.8 million. The reduction of this large number of deaths is largely due to medical advances, as well as investment in simple measures to help people live healthier in developing countries, such as child blinds. to prevent malaria, drill wells so people can access clean water.

WHO recognizes that providing adequate nutrition to pregnant mothers also plays an extremely important role in the early years of the child.

"Bill Gates has invested a lot in addressing the needs of children since realizing the severity of the problem during the trip to Africa in the 1990s," the letter explains.

4. Extreme poverty is gradually being eradicated

Gates Letter

Extreme poverty is defined as a person living with an income of less than $ 1.90 per day. In fact, in 150 years, from 1820 until 1970, the number of people living in extreme poverty continues to increase. In the late 1970s, there were more than 2 billion people in the world.

People still think this world, or more specifically, people around the world are getting poorer, but they are not. Melinda Gates explained in Gates' letter: " People seem to think that the world is getting poorer. However, the chart shows a clear result that the number of poor people has been declining from from 1970 to the present, from 2 billion to only 705 million people, the difference may not be much, but when compared with the global population increase every year, 705 million people is not a small number ".

" The historical trends of the present era are geared towards caring for a better life for people. Surely we will see those points in the global health. Governments are also prioritizing. this, people also support it, scientists are also studying this issue more actively than ever , "added Ms Gates.

Refer to some more articles:

1. 15 famous quotes about Bill Gates' success and life
2. Why is Bill Gates called a "eccentric genius"?
3. Bill Gates: The secret of the life of the richest man in the world

Having fun!