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 Hemipshpere (North and South) and 8 Africans.
51 would be female; 49 male
70 would be non-white; 30 white
70 would be non-christian; 30 children
50% of the entire worlds wealth would be in the hands of 6 people and all 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, one would be near birth.
Only one would have a college education.
No one would own a computer
When one considers our world from such an incredibely compressed perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes glaringly apparent.

 
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