If the World were 100 People...

An interesting challenge: If we could reduce the world's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, how could you present the demographics if the most engaging way?

Brilliant work by Tony Ng

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Stats

• The village would have 61 Asians, 13 Africans, 12 Europeans, 9 Latin Americans, and 5 from the USA and Canada
• 50 would be male, 50 would be female
• 75 would be non-white; 25 white
• 67 would be non-Christian; 33 would be Christian
• 80 would live in substandard housing
• 16 would be unable to read or write
• 50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation
• 33 would be without access to a safe water supply
• 39 would lack access to improved sanitation
• 24 would not have any electricity (And of the 76 that do 
• have electricity, most would only use it for light at night.)
• 8 people would have access to the Internet
• 1 would have a college education
• 1 would have HIV
• 2 would be near birth; 1 near death
• 5 would control 32% of the entire world's wealth; all 5 would be US citizens
• 48 would live on less than US$ 2 a day
• 20 would live on less than US$ 1 a day

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