My MIL just sent me a website. Instead of huge statistics and percentages, it reduces the world's population to a village of 100 people. Here are the results. The demographics would come out 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
- 5 would control 32% of the entire world's wealth (they'd all be US citizens)
- 80 would live in substandard housing
- 24 would not have electricity (and of the 76% that do, 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 near birth
- 7 people would have access to the Internet
Wow, do I feel like a minority!
The site had only a couple of other things on it that were interesting. If you want to see it, you can check it out here.
2 comments:
talk about perspective, right? time for a little prayer of thanks here at my house.
VERY interesting!!!
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