Putting the World in Perspective...

PUTTING THE WORLD IN PERSPECTIVE

Humanizing statistical facts.


If we could reduce the world's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this:

60 Asians
12 Europeans
5 Americans and Canadians
8 Latin Americans
14 Africans

49 would be female
51 would be male

82 would be non-white
18 white

89 heterosexual
11 homosexual

33 would be Christian
67 would be non-Christian and most of those would be neither Jewish nor Muslim

5 of the 100 would control 32% of the entire world's wealth, and all of them would be US or Canadian citizens

80 would live in substandard housing

24 would not have any electricity
(And of the 76 that do have electricity, most would only use it for light at night.)

67 would be unable to read. Only 33 could read this in any language.

1 (only one) would have a college education.

50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation

33 would be without access to a safe water supply

1 would have HIV

1 near death

2 would be near birth

7 of the 100 people would have access to the Internet

Think of it!

If you woke up this morning with more health than sickness,
you are luckier than the million that will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced a war,

a loneliness of an imprisonment,

an agony of tortures

or a famine


You are happier, than 500 million persons in this world.


If you are able to go to church, mosque or synagogue without fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death,
you are happier, than 3 billion persons in this world.

If there is a meal in your refrigerator,


if you are dressed and have got shoes,


if you have a bed and a roof above your head,


you are better off, than 75 of every 100 people in this world.





If your parents are still alive and still married,
then you are a rarity.

If you have a bank account,

money in your purse

and there is some trifle in your coin box,

you are one of 8 well-provided people out of each 100 in this world.



If you read this text, you are blessed three times as much, because

1. Someone has thought of you;


You do not belong to those 2 billion people which cannot read


and... you have had your computer!



This is your World!

Think of it!