Tim Harford — Article — Statistics, Fast and Slow

Statistics, Fast and Slow

One way to understand China is to look at the statistics. Real income per person has increased nearly tenfold since 1990. Since the early 1980s, the number of extremely poor people in China has fallen by more than three-quarters of a billion people, more than half the population of the country. China consumed more cement in a recent three-year period than the US used in the entire 20th century.

Source: Tim Harford — Article — Statistics, Fast and Slow

 

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