Hans Rosling Quotes

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

Half of the world lives on [about] $2 a day. If there is a hungry kid in the world, we shouldn't consider ourselves more evolved than homo habilis.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people - almost half of all humanity - to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

Half the people of the world are living on less than $2 a day.

Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity.

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at best a means, not an end; a starting point, not deliverance. These people are looking less for an "electocracy" than for the basic elements that for most of us define a decent life--food, shelter, electricity, basic health care, education for their children, and the ability to make their way through life without having to endure corruption, violence, or arbitrary power.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.