AWD

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 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 entire 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

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.

The following is also something to ponder...

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 three billion people in the world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead
and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this 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 your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.

Mr.Cookie

The post count may say muppet but your words are well spoken, very true that we should all be thankful for what we have.

Si

AWD

Si

It definitely makes you stop and think...

We are all pretty lucky really.

ChrisB

Spooky - A very similar breakdown was in local Church newsletter that was put through out letterbox the other week.

Chris.

Dream Weaver

Wise words AWD Just printed them out to show the missus - like it.

And to think I thought you only ever cracked jokes on here

DW

Billbill

May be American but not one of those six.

brooks

Very interesting..and sobering. Makes me ashamed to be so (comparatively) rich. Shame on us for spending so much on ourselves when our felow man should be of more concern. I am a very lucky man indeed.

Dave P

Not guilty but very sad....

I must read it to my children.....it is so easy in this fast moving materialistic world to forget about the needy at home or abroad.

A sure fire way to help is to vote as many times as possible to ensure that Jack Dee wins Celebrity Big Brother

Dave

AWD

We are very lucky. This doesn't mean that we should feel guilty IMO, just that we should be aware of our luck, and do what we can given the opportunity.