The World as a Village

I've seen this around before, but this is one of the better ones that I've seen. I saw a website that had it, but for some reason it left off everyone in the US and Canada. And those that spoke English. I just think it's interesting to think about..

If the world were a village of 1,000 people, it would include:

· 584 Asians
· 124 Africans
· 95 East and West Europeans
· 84 Latin Americans
· 55 Soviets (including for the moment Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians and other national groups)
· 52 North Americans
· 6 Australians and New Zealanders

The people of the village have considerable difficulty in communicating:

· 165 people speak Mandarin
· 86 English
· 83 Hindi/Urdu
· 64 Spanish
· 58 Russian
· 37 Arabic
That list accounts for the mother tongues of only half the villagers. The other half speak (in descending order of frequency) Bengali, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, German, French and 200 other languages.

In this village of 1,000 there are:

· 329 Christians (among them 187 Catholics, 84 Protestants, 31 Orthodox)
· 178 Moslems
· 167 "non-religious"
· l32 Hindus
· 60 Buddhists
· 45 atheists
· 3 Jews
· 86 all other religions

In the village of 1,000 people, there are:

· 5 soldiers
· 7 teachers
· 1 doctor
· 3 refugees driven from home by war or drought

Education
700 would be illiterate
10 would have a college education

Health and Life
500 would be malnourished
330 would not have clean, safe drinking water
10 would be near death; and 10 would be near birth
800 would live in substandard housing
890 would be heterosexual
110 would be homosexual
480 would be Male
520 would be female

There are a bunch of videos on YouTube about the world as a village of 100, but I don't really like them, so I'll just mention that they exist instead of posting them :)