One Hundred People

If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios staying the same, it would look something like this :

57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south, and 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 six would be from the Unites 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.

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, then you are more blessed that the million people 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, then you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over head and a place to sleep, then 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, then you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy.

If you can read this message, you just received the double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and further more, you are more blessed than over 2 billion people in the world that cannot read at all.