A Hundred of Us

If we could at this time shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 with all existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this:

• There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere (North & South America), and 8 Africans.
• Seventy would be non-white, thirty white.
• Seventy would be non-Christian, thirty Christian.
• Half of the entire world wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people,
  and all 6 would be citizens of the United States.
• Seventy would be unable to read,
  fifty would suffer from malnutrition, &
  eighty would live in sub-standard housing.
• Only one would have a college education.

When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes glaringly apparent.