Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to ‘Twitter’ transatlantically.

My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

Let the dataset change your mindset

I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the world.

In my dreams it happens, when I wake up I just hope for an even better and stronger UN.

If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.