Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset

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I'm going to talk about your mindset.
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Does your mindset correspond to my dataset?
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(Laughter)
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If not, one or the other needs upgrading, isn't it?
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When I talk to my students about global issues,
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and I listen to them in the coffee break,
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they always talk about "we" and "them."
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And when they come back into the lecture room
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I ask them, "What do you mean with "we" and "them"?
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"Oh, it's very easy. It's the western world and it's the developing world," they say.
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"We learned it in college."
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And what is the definition then? "The definition?
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Everyone knows," they say.
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But then you know, I press them like this.
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So one girl said, very cleverly, "It's very easy.
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Western world is a long life in a small family.
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Developing world is a short life in a large family."
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And I like that definition, because it enabled me
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to transfer their mindset
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into the dataset.
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And here you have the dataset.
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So, you can see that what we have on this axis here
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is size of family. One, two, three, four, five
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children per woman on this axis.
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And here, length of life, life expectancy,
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30, 40, 50.
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Exactly what the students said was their concept about the world.
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And really this is about the bedroom.
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Whether the man and woman decide to have small family,
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and take care of their kids, and how long they will live.
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It's about the bathroom and the kitchen. If you have soap, water and food, you know,
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you can live long.
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And the students were right. It wasn't that the world consisted --
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the world consisted here, of one set of countries over here,
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which had large families and short life. Developing world.
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And we had one set of countries up there
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which was the western world.
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They had small families and long life.
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And you are going to see here
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the amazing thing that has happened in the world during my lifetime.
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Then the developing countries applied
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soap and water, vaccination.
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And all the developing world started to apply family planning.
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And partly to USA who help to provide
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technical advice and investment.
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And you see all the world moves over to a two child family,
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and a life with 60 to 70 years.
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But some countries remain back in this area here.
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And you can see we still have Afghanistan down here.
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We have Liberia. We have Congo.
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So we have countries living there.
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So the problem I had
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is that the worldview that my students had
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corresponds to reality in the world
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the year their teachers were born.
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(Laughter)
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(Applause)
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And we, in fact, when we have played this over the world.
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I was at the Global Health Conference here in Washington last week,
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and I could see the wrong concept
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even active people in United States had,
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that they didn't realize the improvement
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of Mexico there, and China, in relation to United States.
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Look here when I move them forward.
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Here we go.
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They catch up. There's Mexico.
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It's on par with United States in these two social dimensions.
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There was less than five percent
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of the specialists in Global Health that was aware of this.
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This great nation, Mexico,
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has the problem that arms are coming from North,
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across the borders, so they had to stop that,
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because they have this strange relationship to the United States, you know.
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But if I would change this axis here,
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I would instead put income per person.
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Income per person. I can put that here.
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And we will then see
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a completely different picture.
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By the way, I'm teaching you
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how to use our website, Gapminder World,
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while I'm correcting this,
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because this is a free utility on the net.
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And when I now finally got it right,
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I can go back 200 years in history.
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And I can find United States up there.
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And I can let the other countries be shown.
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And now I have income per person on this axis.
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And United States only had some, one, two thousand dollars at that time.
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And the life expectancy was 35 to 40 years,
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on par with Afghanistan today.
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And what has happened in the world, I will show now.
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This is instead of studying history
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for one year at university.
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You can watch me for one minute now and you'll see the whole thing.
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(Laughter)
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You can see how the brown bubbles, which is west Europe,
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and the yellow one, which is the United States,
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they get richer and richer and also
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start to get healthier and healthier.
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And this is now 100 years ago,
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where the rest of the world remains behind.
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Here we come. And that was the influenza.
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That's why we are so scared about flu, isn't it?
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It's still remembered. The fall of life expectancy.
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And then we come up. Not until
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independence started.
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Look here You have China over there,
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you have India over there,
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and this is what has happened.
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Did you note there, that we have Mexico up there?
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Mexico is not at all on par with the United States,
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but they are quite close.
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And especially, it's interesting to see
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China and the United States
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during 200 years,
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because I have my oldest son now working for Google,
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after Google acquired this software.
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Because in fact, this is child labor. My son and his wife sat in a closet
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for many years and developed this.
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And my youngest son, who studied Chinese in Beijing.
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So they come in with the two perspectives I have, you know?
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And my son, youngest son who studied in Beijing,
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in China, he got a long-term perspective.
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Whereas when my oldest son, who works for Google,
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he should develop by quarter, or by half-year.
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Or Google is quite generous, so he can have one or two years to go.
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But in China they look generation after generation
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because they remember
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the very embarrassing period, for 100 years,
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when they went backwards.
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And then they would remember the first part
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of last century, which was really bad,
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and we could go by this so-called Great Leap Forward.
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But this was 1963.
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Mao Tse-Tung eventually brought health to China,
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and then he died, and then Deng Xiaoping started
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this amazing move forward.
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Isn't it strange to see that the United States
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first grew the economy, and then gradually got rich?
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Whereas China could get healthy much earlier,
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because they applied the knowledge of education, nutrition,
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and then also benefits of penicillin
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and vaccines and family planning.
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And Asia could have social development
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before they got the economic development.
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So to me, as a public health professor,
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it's not strange that all these countries grow so fast now.
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Because what you see here, what you see here
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is the flat world of Thomas Friedman,
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isn't it.
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It's not really, really flat.
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But the middle income countries --
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and this is where I suggest to my students,
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stop using the concept "developing world."
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Because after all, talking about the developing world
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is like having two chapters in the history of the United States.
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The last chapter is about present, and president Obama,
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and the other is about the past,
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where you cover everything from Washington
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to Eisenhower.
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Because Washington to Eisenhower,
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that is what we find in the developing world.
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We could actually go to Mayflower
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to Eisenhower,
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and that would be put together into a developing world,
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which is rightly growing its cities in a very amazing way,
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which have great entrepreneurs,
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but also have the collapsing countries.
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So, how could we make better sense about this?
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Well, one way of trying is to see whether we could
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look at income distribution.
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This is the income distribution of peoples in the world,
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from $1. This is where you have food to eat.
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These people go to bed hungry.
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And this is the number of people.
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This is $10, whether you have a public or a private
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health service system. This is where you can
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provide health service for your family and school for your children,
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and this is OECD countries:
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Green, Latin America, East Europe.
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This is East Asia, and the light blue there is South Asia.
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And this is how the world changed.
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It changed like this.
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Can you see how it's growing? And how hundreds of millions
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and billions is coming out of poverty in Asia?
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And it goes over here?
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And I come now, into projections,
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but I have to stop at the door of Lehman Brothers there, you know, because --
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(Laughter)
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that's where the projections are not valid any longer.
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Probably the world will do this.
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and then it will continue forward like this.
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But more or less, this is what will happen,
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and we have a world which cannot be looked upon as divided.
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We have the high income countries here,
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with the United States as a leading power;
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we have the emerging economies in the middle,
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which provide a lot of the funding for the bailout;
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and we have the low income countries here.
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Yeah, this is a fact that from where the money comes,
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they have been saving, you know, over the last decade.
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And here we have the low income countries
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where entrepreneurs are.
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And here we have the countries in collapse and war,
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like Afghanistan, Somalia, parts of Congo, Darfur.
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We have all this at the same time.
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That's why it's so problematic to describe what has happened
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in the developing world.
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Because it's so different, what has happened there.
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And that's why I suggest
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a slightly different approach of what you would call it.
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And you have huge differences within countries also.
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I heard that your departments here were by regions.
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Here you have Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia,
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East Asia, Arab states,
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East Europe, Latin America, and OECD.
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And on this axis, GDP.
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And on this, heath, child survival,
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and it doesn't come as a surprise
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that Africa south of Sahara is at the bottom.
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But when I split it, when I split it
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into country bubbles,
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the size of the bubbles here is the population.
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Then you see Sierra Leone and Mauritius, completely different.
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There is such a difference within Sub-Saharan Africa.
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And I can split the others. Here is the South Asian,
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Arab world.
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Now all your different departments.
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East Europe, Latin America, and OECD countries.
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And here were are. We have a continuum in the world.
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We cannot put it into two parts.
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It is Mayflower down here. It is Washington here,
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building, building countries.
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It's Lincoln here, advancing them.
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It's Eisenhower bringing modernity into the countries.
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And then it's United States today, up here.
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And we have countries all this way.
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Now, this is the important thing
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of understanding how the world has changed.
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At this point I decided to make a pause.
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(Laughter)
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And it is my task, on behalf of the rest of the world,
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to convey a thanks to the U.S. taxpayers,
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for Demographic Health Survey.
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Many are not aware of -- no, this is not a joke.
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This is very serious.
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It is due to USA's continuous sponsoring
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during 25 years of the very good methodology
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for measuring child mortality
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that we have a grasp of what's happening in the world.
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(Applause)
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And it is U.S. government at its best,
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without advocacy, providing facts,
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that it's useful for the society.
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And providing data free of charge
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on the internet, for the world to use. Thank you very much.
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Quite the opposite of the World Bank,
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who compiled data with government money,
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tax money, and then they sell it to add a little profit,
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in a very inefficient, Gutenberg way.
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(Applause)
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But the people doing that at the World Bank
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are among the best in the world.
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And they are highly skilled professionals.
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It's just that we would like to upgrade our international agencies
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to deal with the world in the modern way, as we do.
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And when it comes to free data and transparency,
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United States of America is one of the best.
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And that doesn't come easy from the mouth of a Swedish public health professor.
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(Laughter)
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And I'm not paid to come here, no.
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I would like to show you what happens with the data,
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what we can show with this data.
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Look here. This is the world.
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With income down there and child mortality.
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And what has happened in the world?
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Since 1950, during the last 50 years
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we have had a fall in child mortality.
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And it is the DHS that makes it possible to know this.
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And we had an increase in income.
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And the blue former developing countries
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are mixing up with the former industrialized western world.
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We have a continuum. But we still have, of course,
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Congo, up there. We still have as poor countries
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as we have had, always, in history.
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And that's the bottom billion, where we've heard today
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about a completely new approach to do it.
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And how fast has this happened?
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Well, MDG 4.
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The United States has not been so eager
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to use MDG 4.
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But you have been the main sponsor that has enabled us to measure it,
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because it's the only child mortality that we can measure.
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And we used to say that it should fall four percent per year.
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Let's see what Sweden has done.
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We used to boast about fast social progress.
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That's where we were, 1900.
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1900, Sweden was there.
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Same child mortality as Bangladesh had, 1990,
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though they had lower income.
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They started very well. They used the aid well.
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They vaccinated the kids. They get better water.
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And they reduced child mortality,
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with an amazing 4.7 percent per year. They beat Sweden.
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I run Sweden the same 16 year period.
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Second round, it's Sweden, 1916,
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against Egypt, 1990.
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Here we go. Once again the USA is part of the reason here.
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They get safe water, they get food for the poor,
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and they get malaria eradicated.
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5.5 percent. They are faster than the millennium development goal.
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And third chance for Sweden, against Brazil here.
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Brazil here has amazing social improvement
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over the last 16 years,
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and they go faster than Sweden.
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This means that the world is converging.
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The middle income countries,
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the emerging economy, they are catching up.
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They are moving to cities,
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where they also get better assistance for that.
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Well the Swedish students protest at this point.
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They say, "This is not fair,
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because these countries had vaccines and antibiotics
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that were not available for Sweden.
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We have to do real-time competition."
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Okay. I give you Singapore, the year I was born.
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Singapore had twice the child mortality of Sweden.
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It's the most tropical country in the world,
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a marshland on the equator.
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And here we go. It took a little time for them to get independent.
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But then they started to grow their economy.
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And they made the social investment. They got away malaria.
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They got a magnificent health system
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that beat both the U.S. and Sweden.
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We never thought it would happen that they would win over Sweden!
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(Applause)
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All these green countries are achieving millennium development goals.
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These yellow are just about to be doing this.
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These red are the countries that doesn't do it, and the policy has to be improved.
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Not simplistic extrapolation.
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We have to really find a way
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of supporting those countries in a better way.
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We have to respect the middle income countries
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on what they are doing.
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And we have to fact-base the whole way we look at the world.
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This is dollar per person. This is HIV in the countries.
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The blue is Africa.
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The size of the bubbles is how many are HIV affected.
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You see the tragedy in South Africa there.
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About 20 percent of the adult population are infected.
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And in spite of them having quite a high income,
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they have a huge number of HIV infected.
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But you also see that there are African countries down here.
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There is no such thing as an HIV epidemic in Africa.
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There's a number, five to 10 countries in Africa
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that has the same level as Sweden and United States.
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And there are others who are extremely high.
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And I will show you that what has happened
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in one of the best countries, with the most vibrant economy
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in Africa and a good governance, Botswana.
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They have a very high level. It's coming down.
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But now it's not falling,
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because there, with help from PEPFAR,
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it's working with treatment. And people are not dying.
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And you can see it's not that easy,
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that it is war which caused this.
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Because here, in Congo, there is war.
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And here, in Zambia, there is peace.
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And it's not the economy. Richer country has a little higher.
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If I split Tanzania in its income,
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the richer 20 percent in Tanzania
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has more HIV than the poorest one.
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And it's really different within each country.
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Look at the provinces of Kenya. They are very different.
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And this is the situation you see.
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It's not deep poverty. It's the special situation,
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probably of concurrent sexual partnership
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among part of the heterosexual population
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in some countries, or some parts of countries,
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in south and eastern Africa.
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Don't make it Africa. Don't make it a race issue.
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Make it a local issue. And do prevention at each place,
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in the way it can be done there.
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So to just end up,
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there are things of suffering
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in the one billion poorest, which we don't know.
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Those who live beyond the cellphone,
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those who have yet to see a computer,
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those who have no electricity at home.
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This is the disease, Konzo, I spent 20 years
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elucidating in Africa.
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It's caused by fast processing of toxic cassava root in famine situation.
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It's similar to the pellagra epidemic in Mississippi in the '30s.
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It's similar to other nutritional diseases.
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It will never affect a rich person.
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We have seen it here in Mozambique.
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This is the epidemic in Mozambique. This is an epidemic in northern Tanzania.
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You never heard about the disease.
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But it's much more than Ebola
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that has been affected by this disease.
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Cause crippling throughout the world.
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And over the last two years,
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2,000 people has been crippled
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in the southern tip of Bandundu region.
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That used to be the illegal diamond trade,
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from the UNITA-dominated area in Angola.
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That has now disappeared,
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and they are now in great economic problem.
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And one week ago, for the first time,
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there were four lines on the Internet.
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Don't get confused of the progress of the emerging economies
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and the great capacity
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of people in the middle income countries
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and in peaceful low income countries.
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There is still mystery in one billion.
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And we have to have more concepts
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than just developing countries and developing world.
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We need a new mindset. The world is converging,
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but -- but -- but not the bottom billion.
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They are still as poor as they've ever been.
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It's not sustainable, and it will not happen around one superpower.
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But you will remain
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one of the most important superpowers,
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and the most hopeful superpower, for the time to be.
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And this institution
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will have a very crucial role,
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not for United States, but for the world.
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So you have a very bad name,
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State Department. This is not the State Department.
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It's the World Department.
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And we have a high hope in you. Thank you very much.
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(Applause)
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