If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of 100 people, with everything else remaining the same, it would look like this:
There would be:
- 57 Asians
- 21 Europeans
- 14 from the Western Hemisphere
- 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
- 95 would be heterosexual
- 5 would be homosexual
- 6 people would own 59% of the 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 would have a college education
- 1 would own a computer
- 0 would play oboe