The world by numbers...

[Staralfur]

This is part of an email I recieved recently;



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:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans

52 would be female
48 would be male

70 would be non-white
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% 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 near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer

When one considers our world from such a compressed
perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education
becomes glaringly apparent.


I feel it's something worth pondering, especially with the current goings on in the world.

[Talthyr Malkaviel]

Hey, I noticed you're from U.K like me, and I was wondering where you saw that cos in one of the classrooms in my school they have that same poster, and I was wondering if they were the same ones.

[Barb]

We had that read to us in assembly at school. It makes you think dosn't it.