Is Global Welfare Increasing or Decreasing?

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Change in literacy rate (1800-2016)
Decline in childhood mortality (1800-2017)
Global population living under democracy (1816-2015)
Most of us are wrong about how the world has changed (especially those who are pessimistic about the future)
Number of people in the world without electricity falls below one billion
Snapshot of change over the last two centuries
The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it
Trends in global population by level of education (1970-2100)
World population living in extreme poverty (1820-2015)