Here is an interesting thought:  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: 

There would be:


57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans

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52 would be female
48 would be male

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70 would be non-white
30 would be white

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70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian

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89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual

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6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from
the United States.

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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

Tags: Tags Earth Population Village 100 Human Numbers European Asian African

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