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THE WHOLE WORLD AS 100 PEOPLE

> >If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of 100

> >people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it

> >would look like this:

> >There would be:

> >57 Asians

> >21 Europeans

> >14 from the Western Hemisphere (north and south)

> >8 Africans

> >52 would be female

> >48 would be male

> >70 would be non-white

> >30 white

> >70 would be non-Christian

> >30 would be Christian

> >89 would be heterosexual

> >11 homosexual

> >

> >59% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6

> >people and 5 out of 6 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,

> >1 would be near birth

> >1 would have a college education

> >1 would own a computer

> >

> >Suddenly feeling fortunate? Me, too.