A World with 100 People
Just some more old stuff I found on the webserver I thought I would share. This is a quote from 1998... if the World was compressed to just 100 people and all other ratios preserved :)
If you could reduce the population of the earth to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios
remaining the same, it would look like this:
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 Western Hemisphere people (both North and South Americans)
8 Africans
70 persons would be non-Christian, and 30 would be Christian.
50% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people, and those 6 people would all be citizens of
the United States.
70 people would be unable to read.
50 people would suffer from malnutrition.
80 would live in substandard housing.
Only 1 would have a university education
"When one considers the world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding
becomes glaringly apparent."
Compiled by Dr. Floyd Shoemaker, U of Denver, 1998
If you could reduce the population of the earth to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios
remaining the same, it would look like this:
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 Western Hemisphere people (both North and South Americans)
8 Africans
70 persons would be non-Christian, and 30 would be Christian.
50% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people, and those 6 people would all be citizens of
the United States.
70 people would be unable to read.
50 people would suffer from malnutrition.
80 would live in substandard housing.
Only 1 would have a university education
"When one considers the world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding
becomes glaringly apparent."
Compiled by Dr. Floyd Shoemaker, U of Denver, 1998