If We Could Shrink the World--Just 100 People

If we could shrink the earth to a village with a population of precisely 100 people with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, 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-Christian, 30 would be Christian

70 would be non-white, 30 would be white

89 would be heterosexual, 11 would be homosexual

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and would be from the United States

80 would live in sub-standard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition

1 would be near death1 would be near birth

1 (yes only 1) would have a college education and 1 would own a computer

When we consider our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.

It you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture or the pangs of starvation - you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear, harassment, arrest, torture or death you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep - you are richer than 75% of the world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet and spare change in a dish someplace - you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy.

(Found at the Eden Project)