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.