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# You are probably wrong about

- Domestic work
- Global warming
- Plastic in oceans
- Life satisfaction
- Global collaborations
- Extreme poverty
- Migration
- Economic growth
- Electricity access
- Internet usage
- International conflicts
- Threatened species
- Natural disaster deaths
- Global hunger
- Education quality
- Water at home
- Raw materials

We have tested thousands of people and they were systematically wrong about all this.

Upgrade your worldview

Gapminder is an independent educational non-profit fighting global misconceptions. FEATURED BY:

## Ola Rosling opens UN global goal meeting 2020

The UN’s SDG Moments 2020 was introduced by Malala Yousafzai and Ola Rosling, president and co-founder of Gapminder.

## Free tools for
a fact-based worldview

Used by millions of people, teachers, journalists and decision makers all over the world.

## Worldview Upgrader

Rid yourself of the most common global misconceptions and get your Upgraded Worldview Certificate

Find your misconceptions

## Animating Data

Get the proportions right and realize the macrotrends that will shape the future.

Understand a changing world

## Dollar Street

Watch everyday life in hundreds of homes on all income levels across the world, to counteract the media’s skewed selection of images of other places.

See the reality behind the data

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## WHAT WE DO
## First

### We ask thousands of fact questions

to the public in many countries...

### ...to see what people think the world looks like

based on the news stories they see.

## Then

### we check the data...

from the UN and other reliable sources...

### to identify the most common misconceptions

where peoples' ideas differ most from reality.

## Finally

### we can help YOU

identify what you’re wrong about, and...

### ... keep upgrading your worldview

as the world keeps changing,

### AND ENJOY
a fact-based worldview

Gapminder's tools and teaching materials are free, and always will be free.
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Gapminder is an independent Swedish foundation with no political, religious or economic affiliations. Gapminder fights devastating misconceptions and promotes a fact-based worldview everyone can understand.

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