The economist Steven Radelet has pointed out that “the improvements in health among the global poor in the last few decades are so large and widespread that they rank among the greatest achievements in human history. Rarely has the basic well-being of so many people around the world improved so substantially, so quickly. Yet few people are even aware that it is happening.

Steven Pinker, Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress, New York, 2018, p. 59