World Population Ratios
If Earth’s population were shrunk into a village of just 100 people, with all the human ratios existing in the world still remaining, what would this tiny, diverse village look like?
(NOTE: This is traveling the Internet, wrongly attributed to a certain professor at a West Coast university medical school, who asked that I delete his name. If anybody finds the CORRECT source, I would appreciate hearing from you so I can properly credit it. Until then, I HOPE the figures are correct.)
57 would be Asian
21 would be European
14 would be from the Western Hemisphere
8 would be African
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be nonwhite
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 percent 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 pregnant
1 would have a college education
1 would own a computer
Now go count your blessings!