From ODTmaps.com http://odtmaps.com/behind_the_maps/population_map/if-world-were-village.asp
Original version by Donella H. Meadows
If the world were a village of only 100 people, there would be:
60 Asians
14 Africans
12 Europeans
8 people from Central and South America, Mexico and Caribbean,
5 from the USA and Canada, and
1 person from Australia or New Zealand
The people of the village would have considerable difficulty communicating:
14 people would speak Mandarin
8 people would speak Hindu/Urdu
8 would speak English
7 would speak Spanish
4 would speak Russian and
4 would speak Arabic
In the village there would be:
33 Christians
22 Muslims
15 Hindus
14 Nonreligious, Agnostics or Atheists
6 Buddhists and
10 people to represent Sixty remaining world religions
In this 100-person community:
80 would live in substandard housing
67 adults live in the village; half of them would be illiterate
50 would suffer from malnutrition
33 would not have access to clean, safe drinking water
24 people would not have any electricity
Of the 76 that do have electricity, most would use it for light at nighttime only
In the village would be 42 radios, 24 televisions, 14 telephones and 7 computers
(and some villagers would represent owning multiple of each one)
7 people would own an automobile (again, some of these people represent owning more than one)
5 people would posses 32% of the entire village’s wealth, and these would all be from the United States
The poorest 1/3 of the people would receive only 3% of the income of the village
The following is also something to ponder:
If you woke up this morning healthy, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week
If you never experienced the danger of battle, the fear and loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pain of starvation, you are better off than 500 million people in the world
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are more comfortable than 75% of the people in the world
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among he top 8% of the world’s wealthy
If you can read this, you are more blessed than over 2 Billion people in the world who cannot read at all.
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, it becomes both evident and vital that education, acceptance and compassion are essential for the progress for humankind.
Interesting way to split it up.
The State of the Village Report (“If the world were a village of only 100 people….”) was lifted word for word from our web site (or our printed handout that we distribute with our World Population Map). See:
http://odtmaps.com/behind_the_maps/population_map/if-world-were-village.asp
If you’d like to know the fascinating history as to the origin of the report, see:
http://odtmaps.com/behind_the_maps/population_map/state-of-village-stats.asp
If you are not willing to make a link to ODTmaps.com as the source, please (at the very least) credit the brilliant mind behind the project — Donella H. Meadows of the Sustainability Institute, and/or David Copeland, member of Value Earth, an East Coast-based environmental group. David produced a poster for the 1992 Earth Summit being held that year in Rio de Janeiro. David had heard the interview while driving home one evening, pulled over to write down everything he could about Donella Meadows with the intent to reproduce these statistics for the Earth Summit poster. David tracked down Donella Meadows through a persistent series of phone calls and received the «yes» he needed. Donella’s statistics describing the world as 1000 people were subsequently published and distributed on 50,000 posters during the 1992 Earth Summit. Initially, the poster was only to feature an image of the planet Earth from space. David interrupted the poster production process to include “If the world were a village of 1000 people.” With the inclusion of these statistics the poster became a compelling call to action/awareness of all who saw it. Throughout the Earth Summit conference, the information was shared on an international level.
Well honestly if it were such a small village the “Wealth” would be irrelevant. Everyone would be forced to work together to survive, so everyone would be on an even level of “Wealth” and i really wouldnt call it wealth, its more like wellbeing, weather they will live to wake up the next day, not who has more cars or tv’s the community would share the little resources availible to advance
Actually, we didn’t steal it from your site. It is posted all over the internet and I received it from a print screen image of a document circling on reddit.com
I went ahead it sourced it anyway. I just thought you should know that I saw it from reddit.com and it wasn’t sourced, it was an image file and I copied it form that.
You mean Hindi (the Language) right?