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For every month we live,
we live a week longer

In 1900 we lived to be only 32 years on average, today the global average life expectancy is 69 years and in 2050 we will live to be 76 years. For every month you live, you add one week to your life expectancy.
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A new way to compare global problems

For centuries, optimists and pessimists have argued over the state of the world, often picking facts and stories to fit some grand narrative of decline or progress. Here is a rational way.

We measure the problem, from gender inequality to air pollution in percent of GDP. This makes all problems comparable, across time and topics. Read more in the renowned science magazine New Scientist.
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Fairer, healthier and safer

In British newspaper The Times Lomborg presents the trends within all the 10 researched problems:

The biggest environmental problem in the world is, perhaps surprisingly, air pollution. It has been declining for past 110 years. This is because most air pollution deaths are caused by indoor pollution from cooking and heating with dirty fuels. Over the 20th century 4 times more died from indoor than outdoor air pollution. As poverty has receded and clean fuels gotten cheaper, the risk has fallen eight-fold and will decline another 70% until 2050.

A Danish translation of the article was published in financial newspaper Børsen.
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How Much have Global Problems Cost the World
- A Scorecard from 1900 to 2050
 Together with 21 of the world’s top economists Lomborg compares if the world is doing better or worse and analyzes where the future needs us to focus our attention. Published by Cambridge University Press. On the bookshelves now. Order it on amazon.co.uk or amazon.com.
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Can problems be good?

Lomborg exlains on CNBC's lead program Squawk Box Europe why global warming has mostly been a net benefit so far, rising from barely positive in 1900 to increasing welfare by about 1.5 per cent of GDP per year in 2025. After 2070, global warming will become a net cost.
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