Good to Keep Perspective!

For a little perspective--if we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people it would look like this:

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

52 would be women
48 would be men

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

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

Phil M. Harter, MD FACEP Stanford University, School of Medicine

posted by Sacred Steve at 1/02/2006 02:45:00 AM