If the population of the world was reduced to 100, what would the cross section of people be?? (ie how many literate, how many in poverty, how many white etc etc…) I heard this on a radio program recently, and it was facinating…and disturbing. Anyone know these stats? Thanks!!!
No idea how accurate this is, but I got it as part of a mass email a month or two ago.
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world’s, wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
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*Originally posted by China Guy *
**No idea how accurate this is, but I got it as part of a mass email a month or two ago.
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world’s, wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.
surely some of the europeans have got some money?
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
More than one in 14 Europeans has a college education
There is at least one obvious error on that list. Assuming a population of six billion, each person would represent 60 million people. That would mean that 360 million people possess 59% of the world’s wealth, all of whom are from the U.S. Considering we have about 100 million fewer residents than that, I don’t see where they get their numbers.
Not quite… Snopes has covered this one at
Hey, that was a really interesting snopes list. I’ll be deleting that other bit of misinformation off my hard drive as soon as I post this.
A look at a couple of previous threads on this subject: