This morning I was reading the "World Statistics" section of my CVM short-term manual... I thought this was really interesting. I like the way it's presented, boiled down into 100 people, somehow it seems more real. I'm fascinated by the way the mind works. I can easily imagine 100 people, but a billion people is so many that it doesn't register the same way. Not to say that we should resort to boiling down statistics to simplistic forms all the time. I should still be impacted by hearing of the 3 million people who died of AIDS last year. It's 3 million people, whether I can imagine it or not.
Anyway, this was by Bishop Howard A. Robinson Jr. of Agape Christian Fellowship.
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of 100 people with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, there would be...
57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 North and South Americans, and 8 Africans
52 would be female, 48 would be male
70 would be a color other than white
70 would be a religion other than Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth, and all six would be American
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer malnutrition
1 would have a college education and 1 would have a computer"
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