This is a video of a presentation by Hans Rosling of Gapminder, the Swedish data visualisation organization that Google recently bought.

Rosling has a great vision: To make the world a better place by improving access to and presentation of data about the world, such as statistics about poor countries.

He makes the point very well in the presentation – which in turn is actually funny as hell and at times as exciting as a good sports broadcast – just a lot more important.

When you next think about sitting down to watch a brain-numbing sitcom, watch this instead. It’ll make you feel better.