April 11, 2008

If The World Had 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:

60 Asians 12 Europeans 5 US Americans and Canadians 8 Latin Americans 14 Africans


49 would be female


51 would be male



82 would be non-white


18 white



89 heterosexual


11 homosexual


33 would be Christian


67 would be non-Christian


* 5 would control 32% of the entire world’s wealth, and all of them would be US citizens



* 80 would live in substandard housing



* 24 would not have any electricity
(And of the 76% that do have electricity, most would only use it for light at night.)



* 67 would be unable to read


# 1 (only one) would have a college education.


* 50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation



* 33 would be without access to a safe water supply



* 1 would have HIV



* 1 near death



* 2 would be near birth



* 7 people would have access to the Internet

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