The World Around Us
Last week, we touched on the distribution of global wealth. I was challenged to dig a little more and think about the world around us. There are nearly 8 billion people in the world but ...
If the World were 100 PEOPLE:
- 50 would be female
- 50 would be male
- 30 aged under 18 years
- 8 over 65 years of age
There would be:
- 60 Asians including 18 in China and 17 in India
- 16 Africans
- 14 people from the Americas
- 10 Europeans
- 31 Christians
- 23 Muslims
- 16 people who would not be aligned with a religion
- 15 Hindus
- 8 people who practice other religions
- 7 Buddhists
- 15 would speak English
- 14 would speak Mandarin
- 8 would speak Hindi
- 6 would speak Spanish
- 4 would speak French
- 3 would speak Arabic
- 3 would speak Bengali
- 3 would speak Russian
- 3 would speak Portuguese
- 86 would be able to read and write; 14 would not
- 7 would have a university degree
- 40 would have an Internet connection
- 55 people live in cities and urban centres
- 78 people would have a place to shelter them from the wind and the rain, but 22 would not
- 1 would be dying of starvation
- 11 would be undernourished
- 22 would be overweight
- 91 would have access to safe drinking water
- 9 people would have no clean, safe water to drink
The world populations is growing.
1 person is added to the 100 people each year.
And assuming 100 people, the total number of people who have ever lived is 1250 people.
So as one of those 31 Christians, how are we impacting the world around us? In our actions, in our prayers, in our generosity, and in our devotion to God.
(Adapted from - www.100people.org)
Michael Hanson
Executive Director