Here's an interesting set of statistics and serves to remind us all how:

a) Insignificant we are
b) How lucky some of us are to have the good fortune to be born into a relatively affluent society


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


60 Asians




12 Europeans




5 North Americans




8 Latin Americans




14 Africans




Follow up:



49 would be female




51 would be male




82 would be non-white




18 white




89 heterosexual




11 homosexual




33 would be Christian




67 would be non-Christian




5 would control 32% of the entire worlds wealth, all of them would be US citizens




50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation




33 would be without access to a safe water supply




1 would have HIV




If you have a bank account and money in your pocket, you belong to 8% of well-provided people in this world.










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