Pixels of Progress: A Granular Look at the Development Around the World
summary
McKinsey & Company builds a 40,000‑cell map of human progress, each cell under ~200,000 people, and plots GDP per capita against life expectancy to reveal where development actually happens. The data show rapid movement since 2000 — 46% in the top‑right by 2019 versus ~20% in 2000, only 5% still in the bottom third — and that progress is regional not national: 1,400 U.S. microregions (≈120 million people) miss top‑third growth while a similar number in Indian microregions qualify.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:14Microscope of human development
- 3:43Countries to micro regions
- 5:47Pixel view of global progress
- 7:11GDP growth in US and India
- 9:16Human progress last 20 years
- 12:53Regions emerging from bottom
- 13:58Innovation’s role in progress
- 15:23Future of the microscope
- 15:45Key takeaways from granular progress analysis
