Thursday, February 07, 2008

Interesting facts from my race and multicultural class....




One village of a hundred people

World evangelism statistics: What would our world look like?
Raw population statistics overwhelm you. Here's one way of visualizing the world and its economic, housing, health, religious and educational needs:
Shrink the earth's population to one village of exactly 100 people. Apply the earth's racial, economic and other ratios to these 100 people. Here's how this village would look:

Origins:
60 would be from Asia
12 would be European in origin
15 would have come from the Western Hemisphere (9 Latin Americans, 5 North Americans, and 1 from Oceania)
13 would be from Africa
Source: UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, "World Population Prospects: The 2000 Revision."
Sex / Gender:
50 would be female
50 would be male
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census International Data Base, Table 094 : Midyear Population by Age and Sex 2001.
Skin color:
80 would be non-white
20 would be white
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census International Data Base, Table 001 : Total Midyear Population 2001, assuming the populations of South America, Asia, and Africa are "non-white" and those of North America, Europe, and Oceania are "white."
Religion:
67 would be non-Christian
33 would label themselves as "Christian"
Source: Britannica Book of the Year 1999, "Religious Population of the World, 1998," reprinted at infoplease.com , using numbers from the "Christians" heading only for the Christian percentage.
Economics:
20 people would be receiving almost 90% of the village's total income
Source: The International Herald Tribune, February 5, 1999, cited in the World Income Inequality table.
Housing:
25 would live in substandard housing
Source: Habitat for Humanity International, "Why Habitat is Needed."
Literacy:
17 would not be able to read at all
Source: UNICEF, "The State of the World's Children 1999."
Nutrition:
13 would be malnourished
Source: UN Food and Agriculture Organization report, cited at OBGYN.net.
Life and death:
1 would die within the year
2 would give birth within the year
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, World Vital Events Per Time Unit 2001.
Education:
2 would have a college education
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, World Education Indicators, Gross Enrollment Ratio by Sex.
Technology:
4 would own a computer
Source: UN Human Development Indicators, "Access to Information and Communications 1995."

2 comments:

Maxine said...

Wow! This is SO interesting!!

Monalea said...

Monica,

Where do you find these interesting tidbits?

Monalea