how to rule the universe in 21 days

The world in 100 people

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of exactly 100 people, with all the current human ratios remaining the same, then there would be:

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 Westerners
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 USA

80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death
1 would have a college education
1 would own a computer

So if you, the reader, are able to read, are reading this from a computer in a comfortable house, are not too hungry to be reading, are alive and kicking, and have gone to, will go to, or are going to college, congratulations are in order, you just beat out most of the world.

posted by justsomeguy @ 3:09 PM