Re: the world as a village

And, sadly, there would not be one socialist.

Good post, Alan, where did you get these facts from?

John

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: alan johnstone 
  To: WSM_Forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 1:28 PM
  Subject: [WSM_Forum] the world as a village


  If we could reduce the world's population to a village of precisely 100 
people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics 
would look something like this:
  60 Asians
  14 Africans
  12 Europeans 
  8 Latin Americans 
  5 US Americans and Canadians 
  51 would be male
  49 would be female
  82 would be non-white
  18 white
  89 heterosexual
  11 homosexual
  5 would control 32% of the entire world's wealth, and all of them would be US 
citizens
  80 would live in substandard housing
  24 would not have any electricity (and of the 76% that do have electricity, 
most would only use it for light at night.)
  67 would be unable to read
  1 (only one) would have a college education.
  50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation
  33 would be without access to a safe water supply
  1 would have HIV 
  If you woke up this morning with more health than sickness, you are luckier 
than the million that will not survive this week. 

  If you have never experienced war, imprisonment, torture or famine, then you 
are happier than 500 million people in the world. 

  If there is a meal at your disposal, you are clothed and you have a bed with 
a roof above it, then you are better off than 75% of people in the world. 

  If you have a bank account, money in your purse and there is some trifle in 
your coin box, then you belong to 8% of well-provided people in this world.

  ajohnstone , edinburgh br 

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