If the earth’s population was a “global village” of 100 people.

Business for Diplomatic Action has yet another funny feature, the famous “Global Village” metaphor for our planet [not this other world which is the Internet, no, the *real* planet!] Just for the fun of it, I thought it might be entertaining to post it.

If we shrank the earth’s population to a “global village” of only 100 people and kept all the existing human ratios, there’d be:

• 61 from Asia
• 21 from China
• 17 from India
• 13 from Africa
• 12 from Europe
• 5 from the U.S.
• 1 from Australia and New Zealand
• 22 who speak a Chinese dialect, (18 of whom speak Mandarin)
• 9 who speak English
• 8 who speak Hindi
• 50 females
• 50 males
• 32 Christians
• 68 non-Christians,
• 15 of whom are nonreligious
• 19 Muslims
• 6 Buddhists
• 1 Jew
• 30 who have enough to eat
• 88 old enough to read,
• 17 of whom cannot read at all
• 1 teacher

…. you are one person traveling that world.