Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom. In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. The follow-up to Pinker's "The Better Angels of Our Nature".