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
