h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*this is a part of a chain mail*
"Read this and think over it!!"
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If we could shrink the earth's population to a
village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing
human ratios remaining the same, it would
looksomething like the following.

There would be:

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere,both north and south
8 would be Africans
52 would befemale
48 would be male
30 would be white
70 would be non-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 USA.
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 (yes, only1) would own computer.

When one considers our world from such a compressed
perspective,we realize the need for acceptance,
understanding and education.And, therefore... If you
have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your
back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep, you are
richer than 75% of this world.If you woke up this
morning with more health than illness, you
are more blessed than the million who will not
survivethis week.If you have money in the bank, in
your wallet,and spare change in a dish some place, you
are among the top 8% of theworld's wealthy.
If you can attend a church meeting without fear
of harassment,arrest, torture, or death, you are more
blessed than three billion people in the world.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle,the
loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or
the pangs ofstarvation,you are ahead of 500 million
people in the world.If you can read this message you
are more blessed than the over two billion people in
the world who cannot read at all.

As you read this and are reminded how life is in the
rest of the world, remember just how blessed you
really are!
"WHAT TO TELL ABOUT GUYS WHO STILL DO NOT WISH
THE WORLD TO CHANGE A BIT"

So Africa should only constitute 8% of the world population, that doesn´t sound like much.

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/populate.htm has an intresting take on it....
BCNU - Crescent

Hmmm, I was looking at Snopes but couldn´t find it.

I´d agree, 10% homosexuals also sounds wrong. And substandard housing, most of the houses in Ireland would fall well below danish standards. I´m not dying from living in them.

Good link Crescent. Puts it all in to perspective.

It says, amongst other things, that homosexuality is somewhere between 5% and 35% of the population depending on who you ask, the context in which it is asked and how you define homosexuality.

The same goes for all the other criteria. The definitions are to subjective to be of any real use without a lot of qualification, not to mention a couple of statistical anomalies.

Donald