Factfulness: Ten Reason We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. By Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund. Flatiron Books. 2018. ISBN: 978-1250107817. 352 pages. Hardcover, $27.99.

Things are worse than they have ever been—or at least that is the way it feels sometimes. We watch commentaries from our favorite cable news channels or view pithy memes with comments from our online social circle, and it feels as though the world is a much scarier place than it once was and that it is only getting worse. The world’s population is exploding, violence and terrorism are on the rise, and abject poverty is gripping developing countries. However, what if many of these global statistics are actually improving, from extreme drops in poverty rates to stabilizing population growth to increased availability of education for girls? In Hans Rosling’s latest book, Factfulness, he and his coauthors (his son and daughter-in-law) address common misperceptions of the changing world.