"To highlight challenges in other countries, Giving What We Can imagined a birth lottery to see how you might start life from birth. Spin the globe and see how the country you land on compares against your own in terms of life expectancy, income, and education."
"The metrics, sourced from Our World in Data, feed into the Human Development Index, which is used to estimate if the starting point in one country is more difficult than that of another."
Giving What We Can created a birth-lottery simulation that randomly assigns a country of birth to illustrate differences in starting conditions across countries. Users spin the globe to land on a country and see how that country's outcomes compare with their own in life expectancy, income, and education. The underlying metrics are drawn from Our World in Data and integrated into the Human Development Index. The HDI-based comparison produces a quantitative estimate of whether an individual's starting point in one country is more or less difficult than in another, highlighting measurable global inequalities at birth.
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