I know I've seen this one before, but I got this via email and was kind of struck by some of these numbers (highlighted below). 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*: <box width="75%" align="center"> 57 Asians 21 Europeans <b>14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South</b> <span class="notes">(Does this include all of Europe? I think so...)</span> 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be nonwhite <b>70 would be non-Christian</b> <span class="notes">(a bit of a wake-up call for Bush's base, methinks)</span> 89 would be heterosexual 11 would be homosexual <b>6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth</b> <b>All 6 would be from the United States</b> 80 would live in substandard housing <b>70 would be unable to read</b> 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 would have a college education <b>1 would own a computer</b> <span class="notes">(a reminder that, relative to the world, you and everone you know is upper class)</span> </box> <span class="notes">*Since the numbers are so massively constrained, rounding errors and the law of averages will cause some interesting numbers to come out. There are rich people living outside of the US --- just not a lot relative to those within the US. I can't verify most of these statistics. If anyone sees some that are out of whack, let me know.</span>