Is that like "bogeyman?"
Yes, claiming health is better while leaving out psychological conditions is misleading. Yes, using the same criteria to define what war entails in 2018 to what it entailed in 1942 is misleading. Yes, implying that because more people have the ability to read that more people are actually reading is misleading.
Yes, fewer people are in material poverty. The "data points" are clear that spiritual poverty is increasing, by some of the measurements I mentioned. Hopelessness, despair, loneliness. You apparently start with a premise that if crime overall is dropping, the negative effects of crime are necessarily less upon society. What if murder, rape, armed robbery, assault, and property crime rates are dropping but human trafficking and child abuse is increasing? Does that mean that society is better now than when the former were higher? You may be correct, but it doesn't necessarily follow that if the total quantity of crimes drops, society must thus be in better shape than it was before.
You may have caught onto the fact at some point that there are a bunch of folks here who present much more of a challenge in these sorts of arguments. That's because they have some ability to fashion logical arguments. The thing that's always surprised me about folks in your area is how many of them sincerely struggle with making logical arguments. Many are terrific at finding data that appears to support their claims. The problem is that you often don't have to dig very deep to find fallacies and obvious contradictions.