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Saturday, April 08, 2006

If the world were a village of 100 people


A friendie emailed me this and I thought it was interesting enough to share. Tis a sobering thought:

In the world today, there are 6,300,000,000 people
If the world were shrunk to a village of 100 people, this is what it would look like.

52 female, 48 male
70 non-white, 30 white
70 adults, 30 children
30 christian, 70 practicing other relegions or none at all
15 speak Chinese, 7 English, 6 Hindi, 6 Spanish, 5 Russian, 4 Arabic, 3 Bengali,
and 54 some other language
90 would be heterosexual, 10 homosexual
50 would not have enough to eat
80 would live in sub-standard housing
70 would not be able to read
1 would have a college or university education
1 would own a computer
59% of the village's wealth would be in the hands of 6 people