If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely100 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 America 8 Africans
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% 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 (ready to deliver) 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 both acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent."
Philip M Harter, MD, FACEP Stanford University, School of Medicine