Let's Put Life in Perspective

If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this: 

There would be 57 Asians / 21 Europeans / 14 from the Western Hemisphere (North and South) / and 8 Africans.

51 would be female / 49 would be male.

70 would be non-white / 30 white.

70 would be non-Christian / 30 Christian.

50% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people and all 6 would be citizens of 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.

Only 1 would have a college education.

No one would own a computer.

When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes apparent.

[statistics are pre-1990]