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]
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