What would happen if we shrink the World's Population???

[pojo]

"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

52 would be female
48 would be male

70 would be non-white
30 would be white

70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian

89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from 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 (yes, only 1) would have a college education

1 would own a computer

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.

The following is also something to ponder...

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation...you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married... you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.

[blizzard]

Talk about a wake-up call. Great statistics, and some very, very hard to believe at the same time.

[ColdFront77]

This was posted either here or somewhere else before; I believe it was here.

Interesting data indeed.

[Lake Effect1]

Some person has way too much time on their hands to be able to come up with that data!!!

[GalvestonDuck]

Grrrrrrr.

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/populate.htm

[Guest]

Wow, that really makes you think.

[streetsoldier]

Thank you, Galveston Duck, for the site exposing the fallacious nature of the "statistics" given.

Stats, as we all know, can be twisted, wrung out, and distorted in a million ways to get the "result" desired; my wife, a Business Management/Accounting major, sees this all the time depending on the individual professor's bias.

Grains of salt to take while reading the above are avaliable at the Storm2K cafeteria, second floor, last door on the left.

[ColdFront77]

I think it is great that posts that have been here before are reposted... they are most likely still available here, but a lot of newcomers will see some of these issues for the first time.