As this decade comes to an end, the world has seen progress on many fronts. The poorest countries have greater access to water, electricity, and sanitation (i.e., a toilet). Poverty and child mortality have fallen. Technology has spread far and wide so that there are now more mobile phones than people.

But we’ve also broken some of the wrong kinds of records. In 2019, more people were forcibly displaced than at any other time in history. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit an all-time high and biodiversity is declining at an accelerating rate.


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SOURCE: https://brandspurng.com/2019/12/26/year-in-review-2019-in-14-charts/