Women's Press 1997

In the April 1997 issue of Women's Press the following summation was made. If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like this:

57 are Asian
21 are Europeans
14 are Hispanics from the Western Hemisphere
  8 are Africans

51 are females

70 are non-white

70 are non-Christian; 30 are Christian

  6 individuals control 50% of the world's wealth - all Americans
70 are unable to read
50 suffer from malnutrition
  1 is near death and 1 is about to be born

and only 1 would has a college education

Personal Comments

One of the pains of statistics published in newspapers and magazines is the do not give the source or the source date.

I would maintain that the data is highly suspect when compared to the United Nations publication The World At Six Billion.

I maintain that the data in the above article is of use only in trying to comprehend large numbers rather than for its mathematical accuracy.

The UN sex ratio figures yields approximately 50 males and 50 females.

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