The World in a Village
If the world were boiled down to a village of 100 people, what would it look like? According to Dr. Phillip M. Harter of Stanford University School of Medicine, it would go something like this:
Fascinating. Puts it all in a bit of a perspective, doesn't it.
Nicked from Bart, who got it from:
http://www.coping.org/write/percept/logic.htm
~A
57 would be Asian 21 would be European 14 would be from the Western Hemisphere 8 would be African 52 would be female; 48 would be male 70 would be nonwhite; 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 percent 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 pregnant 1 would have a college education 1 would own a computer |
Fascinating. Puts it all in a bit of a perspective, doesn't it.
Nicked from Bart, who got it from:
http://www.coping.org/write/percept/logic.htm
~A
3 Comments:
Poignant.
How many would be blogging?
Hehehe :)
well nicked... thanks for putting an important message out ;-)
(oh... if only one person owned a computer, probably 0.25 of him/her/it would be able to blog in an even slightly cogent fashion, (after the dyslexia counts...)
keep well...
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