Global Village

If you could fit the entire population of the world into a village consisting of 100 people, maintaining the proportion of all people living on the Earth, that village would consist of:



57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 Americans (North, Central, South)
8 Africans

There would be:

52 Women
48 Men
30 Caucasians and 70 Non-Caucasians
30 Christians and 70 Non-Christians
89 Heterosexuals and 11 Homosexuals

6 people would possess 59% of the wealth and they would all be from the United States of America.

80 would live in poverty
70 would be illiterate
50 would suffer from hunger or malnutrition
1 would be dying
1 would be born
1 would have a university degree