Ominous news, worldwide improvements

Disregarding ominous feelings created by regular media, a number of worldwide improvements occur:

• In Europe homicide rates have dramatically decreased over the last millennium.
• In the USA the number of casualties from gun violence is declining over the last twenty years.
• People live much longer worldwide than they did two decades ago, as death rates from infectious diseases and cardiovascular disease have fallen.
• The number of people living below the poverty line declined from nearly 2 billion in 1990 and to less than 1 billion in 2012.
• Casualties from natural disasters declined from an average of 100,000 to 20,000 per year.
• Casualties from warfare are spectacularly declining since 1945.
• Literacy rates all over the world are increasing steadily.
• The number of mobile phone users has gone up to 4.6 billion.

https://ourworldindata.org/homicides/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/03/weve-had-a-massive-decline-in-gun-violence-in-the-united-states-heres-why/
http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/overview
http://www.healthdata.org/news-release/life-expectancy-increases-globally-death-toll-falls-major-diseases
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/01/07/natural-disaster-losses-declined-in-2014.html
https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace-after-1945/
http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-highest-literacy-rates-in-the-world.html
http://www.statista.com/statistics/274774/forecast-of-mobile-phone-users-worldwide/