If there was a 100 people in the world

Sangre

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:

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 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% 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, only 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.

The following is also something to ponder...

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness... you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

If 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 of 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 this 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 world's wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married... you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.

If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

Meh

Wrong.
http://www.snopes2.com/science/stats/populate.htm

Origins: This thing has been circulating for ages (in Internet time) now, and people seem to find the contrasts it highlights between the "haves" and "have-nots" of the world compelling. However, much of the information it presents is questionable, out of date, or poorly-defined:

Baz_

played meh, very nice little page there.

Sangre

I stand corrected, but still meh's page is just altering a few numbers its still basically the same it has the same effect

Sand

The effect being the world is a ****ty place and were lucky to be living in the democratic, free market west?

Oeneus

Damn! only roughly 6 lesbians in the whole world! :mad:

Baz_

no sangre the figures are not pretty much the same, the literacy figures alone make it a completely different world. Then theres college education, wealth blah blah blah...

as was said

Wrong.

bonkey

OK - I know its yet another bloody internet myth (YABIM?), but the bit I always found funny was :

If your parents are still alive and still married... you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.

Yes, yes, yes. Level your anti-American comments at me all you want, but its clear from this that the author was probably American, and it was targetted at a mostly American audience. Given that the internet is properly international today, I would estimate that this hints at an article dated from perhaps the early 90s, after the First Great Coming onto the Internet, but before the rest of the world really got in on the act.

I also think it is disingenuous of the author (or authress) to have started with "if there were 100 people in the world", and then go on to tell you how you are luckier than x million people, without ever bothering to tell you the earth's population.

An accurate, up to date version of this would be nice to see.

As an aside, why is it that people can usually easily grasp the concept of "100 people in the world", and yet percentages mean nothing to them?

jc

Sangre

I dont know maybe people are just used to hearing percentages all the time and this stands out more

P.s fine i wrong

ykt0di9url7bc3

would ne of ye attribute that we are so blessed to fate of just circumstance?

BlackMagic

there would be a lot more asians;)

Sangre

Originally posted by SearrarD
would ne of ye attribute that we are so blessed to fate of just circumstance?

Yes very much so.