I enjoy the idea but the implementation feels lacking: about half of these are statistics, which is on brand for gapminder, but using comparisons from several years past instead of 2022. Which makes it a bit less "news of 2023" and more "news of sometime in the past decade."
Not sure if they're framing it this way to exaggerate the improvement or because the data reported on isn't collected annually.
It's news _from_ 2023, not news about things that happened only in 2023. Things might have improved starting years ago but the research to show it wasn't finished until this year, so it's also about celebrating seeing progress and improvements.
Limiting the list to things improving only since 2022 seems unnecessarily restrictive and we'd miss a lot of positive and interesting news.
Not sure if they're framing it this way to exaggerate the improvement or because the data reported on isn't collected annually.