If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like this..
There would be:
* 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere (both N. & S.), 8 Africans
* 52 would be female, 48 would be male
* 70 would be non-white, 30 would be white
* 70 would be non-Christian, 30 would be Christian
* 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth; all 6 would be from the U.S.
* 80 would live in substandard housing
* 70 would be unable to read
* 50 would suffer from malnutrition
* 1 would be neart death; 1 would be near birth
* 1 would have a college education
* 1 would own a computer.
Consider this...
- If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
- If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
- If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death, you are more blessed than 3 billion people in the world.
- If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
- If you can read this, you are more blessed than 2 billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
Dr. David Hartman, Northern Arizona University
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