Other important indices include such measures of wealth as the numbers of autos and television sets in the world. Perhaps most important for the future, as well as for outlook of the young, is the rapidly increasing amount of education that is being afforded by young people at all educational levels throughout the world. The most exciting aspect of this increase in schooling is that it demonstrates the increase in opportunity for those rural billions who only a few short decades were doomed to live out their lives in illiteracy within isolated villages. You fill in the blank with the matter that concerns you. But please don't conclude that because your pet concern has not been addressed here, that the data will not reveal it, too, to be a good rather than bad story, along the lines of the other matters discussed in this chapter and book.
Chances are very strong that the trend is positive in any basic facet of human welfare.