If the World Were a Village of 100 People
If we could reduce the world's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human condition rations remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this:
The village would have 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, 8 Latin Americans, 5 from the USA and Canada, and 1 from the South Pacific.
Source: http://www.familycare.org/news/if_the_world.htm
So if you’re having a bad day because you’ve been comparing yourself to the richest, smartest and prettiest of the crowd, take out this list and be grateful for what you have.
If we could reduce the world's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human condition rations remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this:
The village would have 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, 8 Latin Americans, 5 from the USA and Canada, and 1 from the South Pacific.
- 51 would be male, 49 would be female
- 82 would be non-white; 18 white
- 67 would be non-Christian; 33 would be Christian
- 80 would live in substandard housing
- 67 would be unable to read
- 50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation
- 33 would be without access to a safe water supply
- 39 would lack access to improved sanitation
- 24 would not have any electricity (And of the 76 that do have electricity, most would only use it for light at night.)
- 7 people would have access to the Internet
- 1 would have a college education
- 1 would have HIV
- 2 would be near birth; 1 near death
- 5 would control 32% of the entire world's wealth; all 5 would be US citizens
- 33 would be receiving - and attempting to live on - only 3% of the income of "the village"
Source: http://www.familycare.org/news/if_the_world.htm
So if you’re having a bad day because you’ve been comparing yourself to the richest, smartest and prettiest of the crowd, take out this list and be grateful for what you have.
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