If we could shrink the
earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the exiting
human ratios remaining the same, there would be:
- 57 Asian, 21 Europeans, 14 from North and South
America, and 8 Africans
- 52 would be
female, 48 would be male
- 70 would be people
of colour, 30 would be white
- 70 would be
non-Christian, 30 would be Christian
- 89 would be
heterosexual, 11 would be homosexual
- 6 people would
possess 59% of the entire world’s wealth and all 6 would be from the United
States
- 80 would live in
substandard housing
- 70 would be
illiterate
- 50 would suffer
from malnutrition
- 1 would be near
death and 1 near birth.
- 1 (yes, only one)
would have a college education
- and 1, only
one, would own a computer