Sleeping beauty (Un amaro confronto, Part V)

At TEDIndia, Hans Rosling provides a superb bird's eye view of social and economic progress since 1858. The overarching question is "when will India and China overcome the United States and United Kingdom in terms of income per capita and life expectancy?". (Soon, but don't get scared just yet)

Since Italy has been lagging all countries above in the last decade, our turn will be earlier...

...unless we stop pretending and get moving.