Born in 2015 · World Progress Report

How the World Improved Since 2015

If you were born in 2015, you have lived through approximately 4,018 days and traveled 10,340 million kilometers around the Sun—during one of the greatest leaps in human well-being in history.

Days Lived4,018
Life Expectancy Gain+3.9 years
Literacy Rise83% → 87.5%
Heartbeats~405M
Era Defining Breakthrough

195 Nations Adopt the Paris Agreement & LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves

Clean energy investment overtook fossil fuel power investment globally while physicists heard spacetime ripples predicted by Einstein a century earlier.

Extreme Poverty Reduction

Dropped from ~16% of humanity in 2015 to under 9% today.

Child Survival & Public Health

Global child survival rates have improved by ~12% since 2015.

Clean Energy Growth

4.5× more solar & wind clean energy capacity worldwide today.

2015 Chinese Zodiac Sign

Born in the Lunar Year of the goat.

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