hi, i thought some might find this interesting....
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Date: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 9:18 PM
Subject: The world at a glance
>> Not sure where the data came from - but it is something to think about .
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>>
>> WORLD POPULATION DISTRIBUTION:
>>
>> A Summary of the world...
>> If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100
>> people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same as they are in
the
>> world today, the village population would look like this:
>>
>> There would be:
>> 57 Asians
>> 21 Europeans
>> 14 from the Western Hemisphere(North & South
>> 8 from the African continent.
>> 51 would be female, 49 would be male;
>> 70 would be people of color, 30 would be Caucasian;
>> 70 would be non-Christian, 30 would be Christian;
>> 50% of the entire village's wealth would be in the hands of only 6
people
>> and all 6 of these people 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 and 1 would be near birth;
>> 1 would have a college education and
>> 0 would own a computer.
>>
>> When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed
perspective,
>> the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes glaringly apparent!
>>
>> All this and NO COMPUTERS! amazing.....
>> "Some people watch what happens, some people make things happen, some
people
>> predict what will happen, and some people wonder what happened" -- which
are
>> you?
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