Factfulness

Statistics can be tortured to convey whatever the captor wishes. And this is being done every day across the political spectrum and ideologies.

Hans Rosling feels that while statistics quoted daily all over may provide a negative picture, the world has improved a lot despite people (all over the world) being woefully ignorant. This is one of those books that gives you hope that not everything is screwed up in the world and we are making slow and steady progress.