Interesting facts - Useful Notes

If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, 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 all 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
- Only 1 would have a college education
- Only 1 would own a computer