2015 has been a good year!

It might not appear as such on the first view. And unfortunately there are always enough “devaluators” who are first and foremost fixated on crises and conflicts.

But a lot of positive and good things happened in 2015 which are worth to look back on. In the German newspaper DIE ZEIT (#52, 23.12.2015) Hannes Soltau, Merlind Theile and Doreen Borsutzki published a remarkable collection of facts.

In 2015 …

• more people worldwide had access to drinking water
  (91% vs. 77% in 1990)
• the average life span worldwide increased
  (71 years vs. 65.3 years in 1990)
• the number of starving people worldwide decreased
  (-17% since 2004)
• the infant mortality worldwide decreased
  (more than halved since 1990)
• we had substantially less traffic deaths in Germany
  (2/3 less since 1991)
• we had less school dropouts in Germany
  (5,6% vs. 9,6% in 2001)

Certainly, 2015 was also a year full of tragic events and fatal developments. But not only. Fading out the good limits the view.

I myself gladly and gratefully look back on 2015. For me personally, it has been a very good year … and the world has had worse before.