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The world has two development stories running simultaneously.

One is building faster than anyone expected.
The other is maintaining what it already built.

7 stats that show exactly where the gap is - and where it's heading 🧵

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@forallcurious https://t.co/6IvAqLA2ta

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Your parents aren't being dramatic when they say time flies.

They're experiencing a mathematical reality you haven't lived yet.

At age 10, one year = 10% of your entire life.
At age 40, that same year = just 2.5%.

The year didn't shrink.
Your denominator grew.

This is why childhood summers felt endless.
And why your 30s will feel like they disappeared.

Time perception is just math wearing an emotion.

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@forallcurious Adding years to human life is the easy headline. Adding healthy years is the hard part, and medicine has a much weaker track record there.

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Your parents aren't being dramatic when they say time flies.

They're experiencing a mathematical reality you haven't lived yet.

At age 10, one year = 10% of your entire life.
At age 40, that same year = just 2.5%.

The year didn't shrink.
Your denominator grew.

This is why childhood summers felt endless.
And why your 30s will feel like they disappeared.

Time perception is just math wearing an emotion.

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Your parents aren't being dramatic when they say time flies.

They're experiencing a mathematical reality you haven't lived yet.

At age 10, one year = 10% of your entire life.
At age 40, that same year = just 2.5%.

The year didn't shrink.
Your denominator grew.

This is why childhood summers felt endless.
And why your 30s will feel like they disappeared.

Time perception is just math wearing an emotion.

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@Cointelegraph Morgan Stanley projecting $3.4T in revenue by 2040 is more about AI-era optimism than about 2040. Cisco was once expected to be the world's first trillion-dollar company back in 2000.

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@bitget A $920M per month compute bill means AI has already become an energy-and-infrastructure business. Silicon Valley keeps selling software stories while spending like a utility company.

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@stats_feed Forbes calls these as athlete earnings, but a growing share has little to do with sport. Ronaldo, Messi, and Curry are closer to media companies than athletes at this point.

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@IndianTechGuide 116,739 layoffs sounds brutal until you notice Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet are still spending tens of billions on AI infrastructure. Jobs are being reallocated, not disappearing.

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Electric cars existed in the 1880s.

They outsold petrol cars in the early 1900s.
Oil industry lobbying killed the first EV era.

Tesla didn't invent electric vehicles.
They just outlasted the opposition this time.

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Electric cars existed in the 1880s.

They outsold petrol cars in the early 1900s.
Oil industry lobbying killed the first EV era.

Tesla didn't invent electric vehicles.
They just outlasted the opposition this time.

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Japan has 80 people per 100,000 living past 100.

Thailand - not Switzerland, not Sweden - is #2. 🇹🇭

Top 15 Countries with the Highest Percentage of Centenarians

🇯🇵 Japan — 0.081% (80.6 per 100k)
🇹🇭 Thailand — 0.069% (69.1 per 100k)
🇫🇷 France — 0.054% (53.6 per 100k)
🇮🇹 Italy — 0.042% (41.9 per 100k)
🇪🇸 Spain — 0.041% (41.1 per 100k)
🇦🇹 Austria — 0.041% (40.5 per 100k)
🇧🇧 Barbados — 0.040% (39.9 per 100k)
🇨🇴 Colombia — 0.037% (36.9 per 100k)
🇿🇦 South Africa — 0.037% (36.7 per 100k)
🇺🇸 United States — 0.035% (34.9 per 100k)
🇮🇱 Israel — 0.035% (34.8 per 100k)
🇩🇲 Dominica — 0.032% (31.9 per 100k)
🇵🇹 Portugal — 0.031% (30.5 per 100k)
🇨🇦 Canada — 0.030% (29.5 per 100k)
🇸🇪 Sweden — 0.028% (28.0 per 100k)

Sources: Demographic incidence estimates by country.

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@stats_feed https://t.co/h0LjmgKtlk

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Iceland has no army and nearly zero crime.

No mosquitoes either.

Sometimes what a country doesn't have defines its quality of life more than what it does.

Absence can be infrastructure too.

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@stats_feed Norway hitting 97% sounds revolutionary until you remember it's a country of 5.5 million people. China crossing 53% is the number that should make oil executives nervous.

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@pubity https://t.co/v0swZe2Xqu

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Japan has 80 people per 100,000 living past 100.

Thailand - not Switzerland, not Sweden - is #2. 🇹🇭

Top 15 Countries with the Highest Percentage of Centenarians

🇯🇵 Japan — 0.081% (80.6 per 100k)
🇹🇭 Thailand — 0.069% (69.1 per 100k)
🇫🇷 France — 0.054% (53.6 per 100k)
🇮🇹 Italy — 0.042% (41.9 per 100k)
🇪🇸 Spain — 0.041% (41.1 per 100k)
🇦🇹 Austria — 0.041% (40.5 per 100k)
🇧🇧 Barbados — 0.040% (39.9 per 100k)
🇨🇴 Colombia — 0.037% (36.9 per 100k)
🇿🇦 South Africa — 0.037% (36.7 per 100k)
🇺🇸 United States — 0.035% (34.9 per 100k)
🇮🇱 Israel — 0.035% (34.8 per 100k)
🇩🇲 Dominica — 0.032% (31.9 per 100k)
🇵🇹 Portugal — 0.031% (30.5 per 100k)
🇨🇦 Canada — 0.030% (29.5 per 100k)
🇸🇪 Sweden — 0.028% (28.0 per 100k)

Sources: Demographic incidence estimates by country.

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@pubity India's fertility rate was around 5.9 in the 1950s and is now 1.9. Demographers spent decades warning about population explosion; now they're debating population decline.

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@interesting_aIl Half the internet was supposed to connect humans. By 2026, more than 55% of the traffic is bots talking to bots while humans argue in the comments.

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@worldranking_ 'Could generate' is doing a lot of work here. Covering 1.2% of the Sahara with panels is easier than building the transmission lines, storage systems, and political agreements needed to power the planet.

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@IndianIndex India's per capita GDP took 43 years to go from ₹285 to ₹9,821, then just 32 years to reach ₹2.51 lakh. Economic reforms in 1991 changed the trajectory far more than most political speeches ever did.

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@Rainmaker1973 A cubic millimeter of brain tissue contains enough wiring to look like a galaxy. Every thought you've ever had runs through structures that still make our best computers look simple.

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Japan has 80 people per 100,000 living past 100.

Thailand - not Switzerland, not Sweden - is #2. 🇹🇭

Top 15 Countries with the Highest Percentage of Centenarians

🇯🇵 Japan — 0.081% (80.6 per 100k)
🇹🇭 Thailand — 0.069% (69.1 per 100k)
🇫🇷 France — 0.054% (53.6 per 100k)
🇮🇹 Italy — 0.042% (41.9 per 100k)
🇪🇸 Spain — 0.041% (41.1 per 100k)
🇦🇹 Austria — 0.041% (40.5 per 100k)
🇧🇧 Barbados — 0.040% (39.9 per 100k)
🇨🇴 Colombia — 0.037% (36.9 per 100k)
🇿🇦 South Africa — 0.037% (36.7 per 100k)
🇺🇸 United States — 0.035% (34.9 per 100k)
🇮🇱 Israel — 0.035% (34.8 per 100k)
🇩🇲 Dominica — 0.032% (31.9 per 100k)
🇵🇹 Portugal — 0.031% (30.5 per 100k)
🇨🇦 Canada — 0.030% (29.5 per 100k)
🇸🇪 Sweden — 0.028% (28.0 per 100k)

Sources: Demographic incidence estimates by country.