1. In 1850 only 10% of people could read. Today, 84% can read.
2. Thanks to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation polio has nearly been eradicated.
3. Burma recently had its first democratically elected prime minister in more than 50 years.
4. Between 2000 and 2015 nearly all of the United Nation’s millennium goals were met (only the environmental goals weren’t reached). These goals covered everything from decreasing hunger and disease to preventing war and violence.
5. In 2000 there were 839,000 deaths due to malaria. In 2015 the number of deaths was 438,000.
6. Emergency medical systems are becoming more and more accessible to a greater number of people every single year.
7. Google fiber is expanding to more and more cities. Soon we will all have lightning fast internet.
8. Renewable energy sources are increasing. In Germany in 2000 only 6% of energy sources were renewable. In 2015, 33% were renewable.
9. More children in the world have access to information and thus education than ever before thanks to the rapid spread of the internet.
10. There is now a vaccine for dengue fever which recently passed its first human trial with a 100% success rate.
11. The Netherlands had to close some prisons because they didn’t have enough prisoners to lock up.
12. Wars are far less violent than they used to be. Just to give some perspective, more American lives were lost during the Civil War than all of America’s other wars combined.
13. Child mortality rates are lower than they have ever been in human history.
14. In 2015 Nigeria had a democratic election that was won by an opposition candidate. This is the first time that an incumbent has lost re-election in Nigeria. The election has been praised as a “turning a new leaf” for Africa.
15. Rwanda, one of Africa’s worst tragedies, has been improving rapidly over the last 20 years since the genocide. It has even been touted as an economic and political miracle.
16. Birth rates are expected to stabilize and the world population is predicted to level out at 10 billion people.
17. With new drugs and treatments, cancer is becoming less of a death sentence every year.
18. Poverty rates have declined rapidly.
19. The world wide average life expectancy has gone up by 6 years.
20. The Ozone layer is actually repairing itself.

wow that no. 20 hope that's true

Awesome post.. Hope this gets to front page sha

Of a truth there is hope. All d shortcomings of d present world and d terrorism is all because of islam. Dat religion is truly from d pit of hell

That nice and enlightening