55× more people live a “good life” today @McKinsey
55× more people live a “good life” today  @McKinsey
Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Today, 55 times more people live at $32 a day than 100 years ago. Chris Bradley explains what that progress has meant in human terms, including advances in medicine that once would have been unimaginable.

Watch the full discussion in the first episode of McKinsey’s _Century of Plenty_ podcast: youtu.be/_Hogn4Q0n8E

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