If Earth's population was shrunk into a village of just 100 people ---
with all the human ratios existing in the world still remaining --- what
would this tiny, diverse village look like? That's exactly what Philip
M. Harter, a medical doctor at the Stanford University School of
Medicine, attempted to figure out. This is what he found:
57 would be Asian
21 would be European
14 would be from the Western Hemisphere
8 would be African
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 percent 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 pregnant
1 would have a college education
1 would own a computer
The following is an anonymous interpretation:
Think of it this way. If you live in a good home, have plenty to eat
and can read, you are a member of a very select group. And if you have a
good house, food, can read and have a computer, you are among the very
elite.
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness ... you are
more fortunate than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of
imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ... you
are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof
overhead and a place to sleep ... you are richer than 75% of this
world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a
dish someplace...you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
If your parents are still alive and still married .... you are very
rare, even in the United States.
If you can read this message, you are better off than the over two
billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
Have a good day, count your blessings.
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with all the human ratios existing in the world still remaining --- what
would this tiny, diverse village look like? That's exactly what Philip
M. Harter, a medical doctor at the Stanford University School of
Medicine, attempted to figure out. This is what he found:
57 would be Asian
21 would be European
14 would be from the Western Hemisphere
8 would be African
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 percent 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 pregnant
1 would have a college education
1 would own a computer
The following is an anonymous interpretation:
Think of it this way. If you live in a good home, have plenty to eat
and can read, you are a member of a very select group. And if you have a
good house, food, can read and have a computer, you are among the very
elite.
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness ... you are
more fortunate than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of
imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ... you
are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof
overhead and a place to sleep ... you are richer than 75% of this
world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a
dish someplace...you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
If your parents are still alive and still married .... you are very
rare, even in the United States.
If you can read this message, you are better off than the over two
billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
Have a good day, count your blessings.
__________________
