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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

The Global Village


If we could shrink the Earth's population of 7+ billion to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this:

Half of the villagers would be female, the other half would be male. 26 would be under 14 years old. 8 are 65 years and over. The village would consist of 61 people from Asia, of whom 19 would be from China, and almost 18 would be Indians, there are 15 people from Africa, 10 guys from Europe, not quite 9 would be from South America and the Caribbean, and 5 from North America. 25 would live in substandard housing or have no home at all. 40 would lack access to basic sanitation and 13 would lack access to safe drinking water. 10 would have no job. Villagers with a job would work in agriculture: 36, industry: 21, and services: 43. 10 would live in least developed countries. 3 would be migrants, internally displaced persons, and refugees.


7 would be unable to read and write (age 15 and over). 7 would have a college education. Their native language would be: 12 are speaking Mandarin Chinese, 5 would speak Spanish, 5 would speak English, 5 would speak Hindi or Bengali, 3 would speak Arabic, more than 2 speak Portuguese, 2 speak Russian, 2 speak Japanese, and 1 speaks German, the rest of the villagers can choose one or the other of the 6000 languages spoken on the planet.



82 would be from less developed countries with an average income of US$ 5,440 in a year, this is the equivalent disposable income of just $15 a day, but 51 of those would live on less than $2 a day. 18 would be from developed countries with an average income of US$ 32,470 in a year, the equivalent disposable income of $90 a day. 22 would be overweight.
The richest 1 in our village actually owns 40% of the entire wealth.



51 of our village people live in areas termed “urban”. The number of people living in urban areas has surpassed the population of rural areas approximately in the year 2005. 60 would live within 100 km (62 miles) of a coastline. About 50 would rely in some manner on coastal and marine habitats for food, building sites, transportation, recreation, and waste disposal.

Half of the villagers would distrust their government.  The village's population would use 77 mobile phones, but they are unequally distributed, some of the villagers would have 2 or more cell phones, other none. 33 would be Internet users, 15 would have Internet access from home and 12 would be active users of Facebook. At least 5 would be part of the gay community  Source: Nations Online


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