Everything is getting worse and worse, one terrible news follows the other: The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. There are more and more wars, violent crimes, natural disasters. Many people carry such frightening images in their heads. But they are fundamentally wrong. Our brain seduces us into a dramatizing view of the world, which does not correspond to reality at all, as the ingenious statistician and scientist Hans Rosling explains. Anyone who has read the book will- have a secure, fact-based framework for seeing the world as it really is- recognize the ten most common types of inflated stories- be able to make better decisions- achieve true factfulness- that open, curious, and relaxed state of mind in which you only share views and make judgments based on solid facts.