Interesting world stats

Friday, February 24, 2006 | |

No real news when it comes to the adoption. The weekly update from Children's Bridge has not had much news in the last few weeks.

This section below was in the weekly update from Children's Bridge. I found it quite interesting. As you can see, us North Americans are quite a minority in most areas.

If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the exiting human ratios remaining the same, there would be:
57 Asian, 21 Europeans, 14 from North and South America, and 8 Africans
52 would be female, 48 would be male
70 would be people of colour, 30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian, 30 would be Christian
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 illiterate
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death

1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only one) would have a college education
and 1, only one, would own a computer


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