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The Global Village: A Microcosm of Who We Are

100 People

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following.

Earth's Population Shrunken to 100 People

57

 Asians

21

 Europeans

14

from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South American

8

 Africans

52

 would be female

48

 would be male

70

 would be non-white

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% 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 near birth

1

 (yes 1) would have a college education

1

 would own a computer

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for ACCEPTANCE, UNDERSTANDING and EDUCATION becomes glaringly apparent.

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