AEGiS-WOMEN ALIVE: If the World Were Only 100 People

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If the World Were Only 100 People

Women Alive; Fall / Winter 2000
Phillip M. Harter, M.D., Stanford University

This will give you a different look at the world! 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 the following.

There would be:

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 would be from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
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
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death
1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer

Hmmmm?

How many would have AIDS?

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