“The upbeat and optimistic website HumanProgress.org catalogues … technologies that are now commonplace

February 10, 2020

“I insist that capitalism has produced the glorious emancipation of women,” Camille Paglia.

September 03, 2019

“Because there is an inexhaustible … supply of alarmists … Cato Institute has created the Simon Abundance Index to refute them,” George Will.

June 18, 2019

“The economist Julian Simon ran the numbers and made the case for human beings as assets. His “Simon Abundance Index” measures the availability of resources relative to population and finds that with more people there are more resources,&am

May 14, 2019

“When I go to places like Malawi or Tanzania or Senegal, they say they all want to live in America … We are lucky to live here,” Melinda Gates.

April 26, 2019

“On what principle is it that with nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us,” Thomas Babington Macaulay.

January 31, 2019

“I love this series from @Human Progress. I wish I could have met Norman Borlaug … whose work in agriculture has greatly influenced my thinking,” Bill Gates.

January 29, 2019

“Progress does not mean that everything gets better for everyone, everywhere, all the time. That would be a miracle …[not] progress,” Steven Pinker.

January 23, 2019

HumanProgress has been an excellent source of data and scholarship

August 25, 2018

“HumanProgress [is] an excellent source of data and scholarship on major demographic trends around the word,” says Richard Morrison from CEI.

March 30, 2018

“Spend 20 minutes poking around HumanProgress.org for all the good news you can stomach,” writes Jonah Goldberg from National Review.

March 12, 2018

“Despite … bumps ahead, I am quite optimistic about how innovation and capitalism will improve the situation for humans everywhere,” Bill Gates.

February 28, 2018

Human Progress is “dedicated to publicizing the gap between the reality and the perception of many measures of world well-being,” Peter Grier from CSM.

December 02, 2017

“I think the world has never been better – more peaceful, prosperous, safe, or just. And I'm on a mission to prove it,” Bill Gates.

November 14, 2017

HP “highlights all the good stuff that gets lost in the chaos.”

October 02, 2017

“Need some more good news?” HP shows that “humanity is improving.”

August 02, 2017

HP is a “data-driven site [that shows] that humans are doing better.”

July 02, 2017

“The eternally optimistic data nerds at the … HumanProgress project”

June 26, 2017

“[M]assive improvements in our global… situation, despite the doomsayers.”

June 02, 2017

“Discover how human condition has changed over time.”

May 02, 2017