Global Village With Just 100 People

These are some starking facts that I stumbled upon while browsing for something else. Thought I should share this with all!

"If we could reduce the world’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this:

• The village would have 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, 8 Latin Americans, 5 from male, 49 would be female


• 82 would be the USA and Canada, and 1 from the South Pacific


• 51 would benon-white; 18 white


• 67 would be non-Christian; 33 would be Christian


• 80 would live in substandard housing


• 67 would be unable to read


• 50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation


• 33 would be without access to a safe water supply


• 39 would lack access to improved sanitation


• 24 would not have any electricity (And of the 76 that do have electricity, most would only use it for light at night.)


• 7 people would have access to the Internet


• 1 would have a college education


• 1 would have HIV 2 would be near birth; 1 near death


• 5 would control 32% of the entire world’s wealth; all 5 would be US citizens


• 33 would be receiving—and attempting to live on—only 3% of the income of “the village”


• 7 people would have access to the Internet"

If you take a look at the world from this condensed perspective,the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes evident. Think of it!

If you woke up this morning with more health than sickness,you are luckier than the million that will not survive this week.

If there is a meal in your refrigerator, if you are dressed and have got shoes, if you have a bed and a roof above your head, you are better off, than 75% of people in this world.

This is our World!
And we are able to make changes!
Hasten to do good works!
Think of it!

Someone has told once:
"Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
Dance like nobody's watching,
Sing like nobody's listening,
Be surprised, like you were born yesterday,
Tell the truth and you don't have to remember anything,
Live like it's Heaven on Earth".

Footnotes on the above statistics:
The original version of the STATE OF THE VILLAGE REPORT by Donella H. Meadows was published in 1990 as "Who lives in the Global Village?" and updated in 2005.

The initial report was based on a village of 1000. David Copeland, a surveyor and environmental activist, revised the report to reflect a village of 100, and distributed 50,000 copies of a Value Earth poster at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Sources: Research for many of the facts for this 2005 update was done by Donella H. Meadows’ think tank: the Sustainability Institute. (See www.odt.org/pop.htm for further details.) The rest come from a variety of sources including David Smith’s children’s book: If the World Were a Village, the CIA World Factbook 2001 (age, birth, death, internet), 2001 World Development Indicators, World Bank (HIV), Adherents 2001 (religion) Bread for the World (malnourishment), United Nations Population Fund (food security) The Global Supply and Sanitation Assessment 2000 Report (improved water, improved sanitation)With so many new reports and constantly changing statistics, please view the above presentation as general and not meant to be totally accurate. It is more for the purpose of fostering understanding, so that we might better dialogue and understand the different cultures of our world.