Factfulness
A quiz from Hans Rosling’s book that shows how often our picture of the world is out of date.
How much do you know about today’s world?
Twelve questions about basic facts of the world, each with three answers. That is how Factfulness, the book by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund, begins.
Take the quiz → · factfulnessquiz.com →
How to use the quiz
- 1Take the test on your ownAnswer twelve questions, for example about access to electricity or girls finishing primary school.
- 2Compare resultsSee how many answers your group got right and set them against the results from the book.
- 3Ask where the errors come fromOur picture of the world grows out of mistaken beliefs and misinformation, so it pays to discover the facts before designing solutions.
Results from the book
Average2 out of 12
That is the average number of correct answers given by over ten thousand people from different countries.
ExpertsOften worse
The people we expect to know the most usually scored lower than the average person.
Chimpanzees4 correct
Random choice would give four correct answers, so the errors come from beliefs more than from a simple lack of knowledge.
More data