If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of 100 people--

with all the existing human ratios remaining
the same, it would
look something like the following:

There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans

52 would be female
48 would be male

70 would be non-white
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 unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer


You may have seen this before, but I thought it was very interesting and worth a pause...

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and I gotta wonder if 6 people own 60% of the wealth, then how is it only one person has a college degree. Number seems a little skewed t ome.

On edit: Yep -> http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/populate.htm

not quite.

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/populate.htm

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http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/populate.htm

Origins: This thing has been circulating for ages (in Internet time) now, and people seem to find the contrasts it highlights between the "haves" and "have-nots" of the world compelling. However, much of the information it presents is questionable, out of date, or poorly-defined:

On edit: Damn...my googling skills are too slow!

That's quite a margin in google time!