If the world were a village of 100 people

If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:
There would be: 60 Asians, 10 Europeans, 14 people from the Americas, 16 Africans
There would be: 50 females and 50 males
There would be: 73 non-white and 27 white.
There would be: 31 Christians, 23 Muslims, 15 Hindus, 7 Buddhists, 8 people who practice other religions, 16 people who would not be aligned with a religion
There would be: 25 children, 75 adults, 9 of whom would be 65 and older
There would be: 12 would speak Chinese; 6 would speak Spanish; 5 would speak English; 4 would speak Hindi; 3 would speak Arabic; 3 would speak Bengali; 3 would speak Portuguese; 2 would speak Russian; 2 would speak Japanese; 60 would speak other languages
78 people would have a place to shelter them from the wind and the rain, but 22 would not; 86 would be able to read and write but 14 would not
1 would be dying of starvation; 11 would be undernourished; 22 would be overweight
91 would have access to safe drinking water; 9 people would have no clean, safe water to drink
7 would have a college degree; 40 would have an Internet connection

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding, and education becomes glaring apparent. The following is also something to ponder:
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed 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 dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world’s.
If your parents are still alive and still married, you are very rare.

Someone once said: what goes around comes around. So

Work like you don’t need the money 

Love like you’ve never been hurt 

Dance like nobody’s watching 

Sing like nobody’s listening 

Live like it’s Heaven on Earth

Sources: 100PEOPLE