If the World Were a Village of 100 People

[RouxB]

If the World Were a Village of 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:

The village would have 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, 8 Latin Americans, 5 from the USA and Canada, and 1 from the South Pacific

51 would be male, 49 would be female

82 would be non-white; 18 white

67 would be non-Christian; 33 would be Christian

80 would live in substandard housing

67 would be unable to read

50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation

33 would be without access to a safe water supply

39 would lack access to improved sanitation

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

7 people would have access to the Internet

1 would have a college education

1 would have HIV

2 would be near birth; 1 near death

5 would control 32% of the entire world’s wealth; all 5 would be US citizens

33 would be receiving --and attempting to live on-- only 3% of the income of “the village”

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[delalluvia]

Thanks for posting this.  I read this years ago and saved it somewhere and never did find it again.

Amazing what the world's population really reflects and how silent most of them are because they don't have access to media.

[Flashframe777]

One would be wearing  feathers

One would be in uniform

One would dress in leather

One would wear a hardhat

& one would be into handkerchief identity....

They would be Village People.

[Ellemeno]

Roux, I have seen and pondered this before.  Somehow describing it as 100 actual people all living in a village together is very impactful, isn't it?  As if we couldn't imagine ourselves allowing our fellow villagers to suffer while we have more than enough.  Thanks for posting.