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( of / changed / last / think / the proportion / in / do / living / extreme poverty / in / how / the world population / has / the / you / 20 years )?
How do you think the proportion of the world population living in extreme poverty has changed in the last 20 years?
( less / more / has / remained / or / the / it / same ).
It has remained more or less the same.
( the year 2100 / increase / predicts / will / by /the UN / by / that / another / the world’s population / four billion people ).
The UN predicts that by the year 2100 the world’s population will increase by another four billion people.
( for / is / you / think / what / main / reason / the / this / do / increase )?
What do you think is the main reason for this increase?
( will / children / under / more / the / be / of / age / there / 15 ).
There will be more children under the age of 15.
( adults / aged / be / will / more / there / 15 to 74 ).
There will be more adults aged 15 to 74.
( everyone / a / mistaken / looks / the world / at / suggests / this / in / similarly / that / way ).
This suggests that everyone looks at the world in a similarly mistaken way.
( we / recommends / become / that / ten / of / aware / Rosling / human instincts ).
Rosling recommends that we become aware of ten human instincts.
( 60 percent / finish / in / countries / girls / low-income / it / of / is / said / that / primary school ).
It is said that 60 percent of girls in low-income countries finish primary school.
( of / this / on / question / answer / correctly / people / average, / only seven percent ).
On average, only seven percent of people answer this question correctly.
( to / is / actually / countries / it / low-income / in / be / than / life / worse / much / thought / is ).
Life in low-income countries is thought to be much worse than it actually is.
( understanding / of / is / means / that / the traditional distinction / this / no / between / developed and developing countries / an accurate way / longer / the world today ).
This means that the traditional distinction between developed and developing countries is no longer an accurate way of understanding the world today.
( the / divide / into / world / two / to / inclined / are / why / we / parts )?
Why are we inclined to divide the world into two parts?
( toward / have / instinct / binary / a / beings / strong / human / thinking ).
Human beings have a strong instinct toward binary thinking.
( always / see / can / does / that / mind, / a two-part division / this / we / not / with / reflect / in / reality ).
With this in mind, we can see that a two-part division does not always reflect reality.
( on / to / negative changes / our tendency / to / it / focus / more / refers / than / positive ones ).
It refers to our tendency to focus more on negative changes than positive ones.
( was / people in 30 different countries / if / Rosling / asked / they / believed / the world / getting better, worse, or neither ).
Rosling asked people in 30 different countries if they believed the world was getting better, worse, or neither.
( is / that / not / necessarily / reality, / in / true ).
In reality, that is not necessarily true.
( the / people / last / almost halved / in / the proportion of / in / has / poverty / living / 20 years ).
The proportion of people living in poverty has almost halved in the last 20 years.
( on average / ten years longer / 70, / average life expectancy / which / live / means that / people / has / in / many countries / reached / than they did 40 years ago ).
Average life expectancy in many countries has reached 70, which means that people on average live ten years longer than they did 40 years ago.
( the past / that / to / was / us / alone / always better / than / believe / lead / these two factors / the present ).
These two factors alone lead us to believe that the past was always better than the present.
( is / logical thinking / he also / rooted / but / in / in / maintains / not / that / this instinct / our emotions ).
He also maintains that this instinct is rooted not in logical thinking but in our emotions.
( hesitate / better / things / are / that / still / are / getting / say / if / be / problems / to / is, / there / we / to / that / solved ).
That is, we hesitate to say that things are getting better if there are still problems to be solved.
( to / us / alert / highlight / to / be / Rosling / to / the media’s tendency / advises / negative and tragic events ).
Rosling advises us to be alert to the media’s tendency to highlight negative and tragic events.
( us / to / it / that / continue / going / a line / will / causes / assume / straight ).
It causes us to assume that “a line will continue going straight.