If The World Were a Village of 100

If we could turn the population of the earth into a small community of 100 people, keeping the same proportions we have today, it would look something like this...

ETHNICITY:

• 61 Asians
• 13 Afridans
• 12 Europeans
• 8 North Americans
• 5 South Americans & the Carribean
• 1 from Oceania

GENDER:

• 50 male
• 50 female

RELIGION:

• 33 are Christian
• 21 are Muslims
• 13 are Hindus
• 6 are Buddhists
• 1 is Sikhs
• 1 is Jewish
• 11 practice other religions
• 11 are non-religious
• 3 are Atheists

SKIN COLOR:

• 70 non-white
• 30 white 

LANGUAGE:

• 17 speak Chinese
• 9 speak English
• 8 speak Hindi
• 6 speak Russian
• 6 speak Spanish
• 4 speak Arabic
• 50 speak other languages 

FOOD:

• 30 would always have enough to eat (15 would be overweight) 
• 50 would be malnourished
• 20 would be undernouished (1 would be dying of starvation) 

FREEDOMS:

• 48 can't speak, act according to their faith and conscience due to harassment, imprisonment, torture or death
• 52 can
• 20 live in fear of death by bombardment, armed attack, landmines, or of rape or kidnapping by armed groups
• 80 do not

EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY:

• 12 are unable to read
• 1 has a college degree
• 12 own a computer 
• 8 have an internet connection

HEALTH:

• 12 are disabled
• 1 adult has HIV/AIDS

LIVING STANDARDS

• 43 live without basic sanitation
• 20 have no clean, safe water to drink
• 80 live in substandard housing
• 68 breathe clean air
• 32 breathe polluted air

MONEY:

• 6 people own 59% of the world's wealth (all of them from the United States)
• 74 people own 39%
• 20 people share the remaining 2%
• 21 people live on $1.25 (US) per day or less 
• The village spend $1.24 trillon (US) on military expenditures
• $100 billion (US) on development aid

If you keep your food in a refrigerator
your clothes in a closet
If you have a bed to sleep in
and a roof over your head
you are richer than 75% of the entire world population

Appreciate what you have & do your best for a better world.