TED演讲：用前所未有的好方法诠释数字统计(6)

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　　Health is there and better health is up there.  分布靠上边的国家拥有更高的健康水平。

　　I can go here and I can split sub-Saharan Africa into its countries. 撒哈拉以南的非洲各国是如此分布的。

　　And when it burst, the size of its country bubble is the size of the population. 小球的尺寸代表该国人口。

　　Sierra Leone down there. Mauritius is up there.  塞拉里昂在下边，毛里求斯在上边。

　　Mauritius was the first country to get away with trade barriers,  毛里求斯是第一个消除了贸易壁垒的国家，

　　and they could sell their sugar -- they could sell their textiles -- on equal terms as the people in Europe and North America. 他们的蔗糖和纺织品的贸易协定，与欧洲和北美一样。

　　There's a huge difference between Africa. And Ghana is here in the middle. 但是非洲内部的差异非常巨大。加纳在中部。

　　In Sierra Leone, humanitarian¹ aid. Here in Uganda, development aid.  塞拉里昂需要人道主义援助，乌干达则需要发展援助。

　　Here, time to invest; there, you can go for a holiday.  在加纳可以进行投资，毛里求斯则可以去度假。

　　It's a tremendous variation within Africa which we rarely often make -- that it's equal everything. 非洲内部的差异之大确实很惊人，而我们却总以为非洲国家都差不多。

　　I can split South Asia here. India's the big bubble in the middle. 下面分解南亚各国。印度是中间的蓝色大球。

　　But a huge difference between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. 而斯里兰卡和阿富汗有着巨大差异。

　　I can split Arab states. How are they? Same climate, same culture, same religion -- huge difference. Even between neighbors.  把阿拉伯世界分解来看。尽管是相同的气候，相同的文化，相同的宗教，却有巨大的差异。即使在邻国之间。

　　Yemen, civil war. United Arab Emirates, money, which was quite equally and well used. Not as the myth is.  也门在打内战，邻国阿联酋却躺在钱堆里。不像神话中那样。

　　And that includes all the children of the foreign workers who are in the country. 而且（阿联酋的）儿童健康数据包含了所有的外籍劳工。

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