Test your knowledge

I would like you to test your knowledge about the world. There are only 13 short questions to be answered. Ready? Let’s go.

 

#1. Worldwide, 30-year-old men have spent 10 years in school, on average. How many years have women of the same age spent in school?

6 years

3 years

9 years

#2. How many of the world’s 1-year-old children today have been vaccinated against some disease?

50 percent

20 percent

80 percent

#3. How many people in the world have some access to electricity?

80 percent

50 percent

20 percent

#4. How big is the proportion of the world population living in countries with low incomes?

69 percent

39 percent

9 percent

#5. How did the number of deaths per year from natural disasters change over the last hundred years?

Decreased to less than half

Remained about the same

More than doubled

#6. What is the life expectancy of the world today?

70 years

60 years

50 years

#7. In all low-income countries across the world today, how many girls finish primary school?

60 percent

20 percent

40 percent

#8. Where does the majority of the world population live?

Middle-income countries

High-income countries

Low-income countries

#9. In 1996, tigers, giant pandas, and black rhinos were all listed as endangered. How many of these three species are more critically endangered today?

One of them

Two of them

None of them

#10. The UN predicts that by 2100 the world population will have increased by another 4 billion people. What is the main reason?

There will be more very old people (age 75 and older)

There will be more children (age below 15)

There will be more adults (age 15 to 74)

#11. There are 2 billion children in the world today, aged 0 to 15 years old. How many children will there be in the year 2100, according to the United Nations?

4 billion

3 billion

2 billion

#12. In the last 20 years, the proportion of the world population living in extreme poverty has …

remained more or less the same

almost halved

almost doubled

#13. Year 2021: Out of 1000 born children in Thailand died in the first 5 years of life…

114.6 children

53.1 children

8.3 children

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Finish

Results

Very good.

(Suggestions for the test are from the book “Factfulness” of Hans Rosling)

Did you make a lot of mistakes? Dont worry! The most people thinks the world is more frightening, more violent, and more hopeless—in short, more dramatic—than it really is…

(Suggestions for the test are are from the book “Factfulness” of Hans Rosling)

If you are a teacher, send your class “traveling” on dollarstreet.org and ask them to find differences within countries and similarities across countries. (1 US Dollar = approx. 35 THB)