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Poverty declined globally from 1.7 billion people in 1999 to 767 million in 2013, or from 28% of people in 1999 to 11% in 2013. The most significant progress was in Eastern & South-Eastern Asia, where the poverty rate fell from 35% in 1999 to 3% in 2013.

Poverty declined globally from 1.7 billion people in 1999 to 767 million in 2013, or from 28% of people in 1999 to 11% in 2013. The most significant progress was in Eastern & South-Eastern Asia, where the poverty rate fell from 35% in 1999 to 3% in 2013.

The best-selling book The Population Bomb claimed that overpopulation would lead to "mass starvation," inciting a panic that led to human rights abuses around the world. In fact, famine has not been increasing but has become rarer. https://buff.ly/2D3SVKc

When there is no market incentive to fulfill human needs, it is women’s needs that are forgotten first.

"23 percent of Americans between ages 21 and 29 believe that Stalin was a 'hero.' " https://t.co/HOD5nZ5JqP

Compare the number of lives saved globally by different innovations. Click "Web Infographics" for more like this: https://buff.ly/2fS4lHx

Adjusted for inflation, median income for U.S. families was $28,144 in 1947. In 2015? $70,697 - an increase of 151%!

Food consumption in Cuba declined by 12% between the 1950s & 1990s. In Chile, it rose by 19% and in Mexico by 28%. http://buff.ly/2k0fplJ

Free enterprise and innovation have done more to uplift humanity from a state of universal poverty than any international aid program or welfare scheme. http://buff.ly/2ghQxo2

No compulsion or control, please. #QOTD #liberty