Almost everybody likes the term Global Village. The term is readily used today especially by writers, broadcasters, politicians and public relation guys, to emphasize the shrinking distances between nations through internet, mobile phones, and cheap flight tickets, as well as the fact that news are traveling with the speed of light around the globe, and they unlikely forget to mention the possibilities of producing and selling "worldwide", speak, making business/money globally.
So, but what does it really look like, our much acclaimed 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:
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.
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. 33 would have a Christian background, 22 an Islamic one, almost 14 are Hindus, there are 7 Buddhists, and 2 are atheists.
26 would be under 14 years old. 8 are 65 years and over. 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. 40 would lack access to basic sanitation and 13 would lack access to safe drinking water. 25 would live in substandard housing or have no home at all.
65 would live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight. 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.
Source:One World Nations Online
