LAFAYETTE TODAY
The Earth’s Population
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:
60 Asians
12 Europeans
15 from the Western Hemisphere, 
north and south
13 Africans
50 would be female
50 would be male
80 would be non-white
20 would be white
67 would be non-Christian
33 would be Christian
20 people would possess
89% of the entire world’s wealth
25 would live in substandard housing
17 would be unable to read
13 would suffer from malnutrition
2 (yes, only 2) would have a college education
4 would own a computer
Sources:
- U.N. Department of Economics and Social Affairs, Population Division
- U.S. Bureau of Census, International Data Base
- Britannica Book of the Year
- International Herald Tribune, World Income
Inequality table
- Habitat for Humanity International
- UNICEF, State of the World’s Children
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics
- U.N. Human Development Indicators
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