Doctor and researcher, Sweden’s Hans Rosling takes a break from saving rural African to looks at the bigger picture of social and economic development in Asia.

In one of the best TED videos we’ve seen in a long time, presenter Hans Rosling, professor of global health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, forecasts the date that China and India will (re)claim their places as the world's dominant economic forces, as determined by average income per person.

Using statistics from his current work dispelling common myths about the “so-called” developing world, Rosling makes statistics come to life in a riveting 15-minute talk that can be compared to watching a horse race with Rosling playing the announcer. Watch and you'll see what we mean. We don't think the man takes a breath for minutes at a time. 

Rosling's graphs come to life to illustrate global economic growth since 1858 and to predict the exact date that India and China will overtake the US. We won’t ruin the surprise for you as to when that is (we'll just say it's during a "late summer"), but we can tell you that a fabulous photo of Deng Xiaoping makes an appearance around minute eight.