If the World Were a Village of 100 People: See clear picture: Don't be selfish!!

Jun 05, 2008 16:27


Before reading this statistics, please think how often you care about other people in the world? How do they live? What are their problems? I am sure they are much different from yours. Perhaps, you cannot afford a house in Bay Area, but think about people who don’t have clean water and enough food. Keeping in mind these statistics can help you to be more  human and less  user.

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 ratios 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”





demographics, world's population

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