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If you take a look through a microscope of the world, you’ll see that we have come a long way in two decades—and for the better. In a new interactive report, McKinsey Global Institute's Chris Bradley, Marc Canal, Sven Smit, and Jonathan Woetzel created a high resolution view of the world’s health and wealth by analyzing 178 countries and breaking them down to 40,000 microregions—a view 230 times more granular than a country perspective. Dive into the interactive—which features a series of cutting-edge data visualizations—to get a detailed look at how the world has advanced in human health and economic prosperity. And to learn more about the report from the authors and leading experts, register for a webinar on January 24, 2023 at 10:00 am ET.

Pixels of Progress: A granular look at human development around the world

Our world is big and complex, but human progress is still about life on the ground, up close and in detail.

Quote of the day

“There is no such thing as a self-made woman or man. There is interdependency; there are interconnections between us and the rest of the universe, such as the community and the people around us.”

—Hitendra Wadhwa, a professor at Columbia Business School, on connecting with one’s inner voice and how selflessness benefits oneself in a recent Author Talks interview

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— Edited by Katherine Tam, editor, New York

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