The World

July 27, 1999 contributed by Carey Heilman

     
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 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
     
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.