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

Answer:

There would be: 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south and 8 Africans.
52 would be female and 48 would be male.
70 would be non-white and 30 would be white.
70 would be non-Christian and 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 unable to read.
50 would suffer from malnutrition.
1 would be near death;
1 would be near birth.
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education.
1 would own a computer.


The following is also something to ponder...

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more fortunate than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the lonliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are more fortunate than three billion people in the world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...you are richer than 70% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace...you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

Pretty intriguing stuff. Well said.

To add, and if you have a new RX-8, you're really on top of the world (except for Matt and his new Ferrari)! :)

Pretty INTERESTING...

ONLY ONE~1~ONE WOULD HAVE A COLLEGE EDUCATION... man people are stupid these days.. all they care about is cars... LIKE ME ... lol...but im top 10 of my class...

2 of them would drive rotary engine powered car
99 would drive piston-powered car

Originally posted by rx-7~rx-8
Pretty INTERESTING...

ONLY ONE~1~ONE WOULD HAVE A COLLEGE EDUCATION... man people are stupid these days.. all they care about is cars... LIKE ME ... lol...but im top 10 of my class...

2 of them would drive rotary engine powered car
99 would drive piston-powered car


99+2=100?

And you first statement is plain ignorant, you clearly don't get the point of the first post.

Originally posted by rx-7~rx-8
Pretty INTERESTING...

ONLY ONE~1~ONE WOULD HAVE A COLLEGE EDUCATION... man people are stupid these days.. all they care about is cars... LIKE ME ... lol...but im top 10 of my class...

2 of them would drive rotary engine powered car
99 would drive piston-powered car

People are stupid these days? Or is it just that a lot of people are not fortunate enough to attend college due to economic or social reasons?

Wow man like, really profound. Just think if the whole world were perfect, there would be no reason for someone to sit around thinking of these things. How boring the world would be.:D

...why would perfection be boring??

Thanks for the post, very timely.....but reading some of the replies, I fear it is pearls before swine....

And all this info is easy to spot, but most people have their heads so preocupied with their next toy they dont see the man dying of hunger on the street.

I come from a shithole and tend to apreciate things a bit more I guess. I've certainly had to work hard for them. SO many people dont realize just how nice and easy their lifes are now.

Originally posted by Genom
I come from a shithole and tend to apreciate things a bit more I guess. I've certainly had to work hard for them. SO many people dont realize just how nice and easy their lifes are now.

As long as your shithole is in the good ol' USandA, then according to L&L you are one of the top two privileged in his world of 100. Add to that you've got both an '8 and a computer, and you're probably number 1. Things can't be that bad; picture yourself somewhere down the heap and read up on what that would mean in your life.