Re: the world as a village

Here , John ,

http://www.familycare.org/news/if_the_world.htm

But another site has
 if the village was a 1000 people

If the world were a village of 1,000 people, it would include:

·  584 Asians
·  124 Africans
·  95 East and West Europeans
·  84 Latin Americans
·  55 Soviets (including for the moment Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians and 
other national groups)
·  52 North Americans
·  6 Australians and New Zealanders

The people of the village have considerable difficulty in communicating:

·  165 people speak Mandarin
·  86 English
·  83 Hindi/Urdu
·  64 Spanish
·  58 Russian
·  37 Arabic
That list accounts for the mother tongues of only half the villagers.  The 
other half speak (in descending order of frequency) Bengali, Portuguese, 
Indonesian, Japanese, German, French and 200 other languages.

In this village of 1,000 there are:

·  329 Christians (among them 187 Catholics, 84 Protestants, 31 Orthodox)
·  178 Moslems
·  167 "non-religious"
·  l32 Hindus
·  60 Buddhists
·  45 atheists
·  3 Jews
·  86 all other religions



  a.. One-third (330) of the 1,000 people in the world village are children 
and only 60 are over the age of 65. Half the children are immunized against 
preventable infectious diseases such as measles and polio.

  b.. Just under half of the married women in the village have access to and 
use modern contraceptives.
  c.. This year 28 babies will be born. Ten people will die, 3 of them for 
lack of food, 1 from cancer, 2 of the deaths are of babies born within the 
year.  One person of the 1,000 is infected with the HIV virus; that person 
most likely has not yet developed a full-blown case of AIDS.
  d.. With the 28 births and 10 deaths, the population of the village next 
year will be 1,018.
  e.. In this 1,000-person community, 200 people receive 75 percent of the 
income; another 200 receive only 2 percent of the income.
  f.. Only 70 people of the 1,000 own an automobile (although some of the 70 
own more than one automobile).
  g.. About one-third have access to clean, safe drinking water.
  h.. Of the 670 adults in the village, half are illiterate.


The village has six acres of land per person, 6,000 acres in all, of which

·  700 acres are cropland
·  1,400 acres pasture
·  1,900 acres woodland
·  2,000 acres desert, tundra, pavement and other wasteland
·  The woodland is declining rapidly; the wasteland is increasing. The other 
land categories are roughly stable.

The village allocates 83 percent of its fertilizer to 40 percent of its 
cropland - that owned by the richest and best-fed 270 people. Excess 
fertilizer running off this land causes pollution in lakes and wells. The 
remaining 60 percent of the land, with its 17 percent of the fertilizer, 
produces 28 percent of the food grains and feeds 73 percent of the people. 
The average grain yield on that land is one-third the harvest achieved by 
the richer villagers.

In the village of 1,000 people, there are:

·  5 soldiers
·  7 teachers
·  1 doctor
·  3 refugees driven from home by war or drought

The village has a total budget each year, public and private, of over $3 
million - $3,000 per person if it is distributed evenly (which, we have 
already seen, it isn't).

Of the total $3 million:

·  $181,000 goes to weapons and warfare
·  $159,000 for education
·  $l32,000 for health care

The village has buried beneath it enough explosive power in nuclear weapons 
to blow itself to smithereens many times over. These weapons are under the 
control of just 100 of the people. The other 900 people are watching them 
with deep anxiety, wondering whether they can learn to get along together; 
and if they do, whether they might set off the weapons anyway through 
inattention or technical bungling; and, if they ever decide to dismantle the 
weapons, where in the world village they would dispose of the radioactive 
materials of which the weapons are made.

http://www.gdrc.org/uem/1000-village.html

alan




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Bissett" <johnbissett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <WSM_Forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [WSM_Forum] the world as a village


> And, sadly, there would not be one socialist.
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> Good post, Alan, where did you get these facts from?
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> John
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>  ----- 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
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>  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.
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>  If you have never experienced war, imprisonment, torture or famine, then 
> you are happier than 500 million people in the world.
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>  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.
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>  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.
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>  ajohnstone , edinburgh br
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