100 People
What if the Earth’s 8 billion+ people were represented by only 100? You’d get stats like those below. This from 100people.org. Sources cited below.
If the world held only 100 people:
50 would be female
50 would be male
25 would be children
9 would be 65 and older
There would be 60 Asians and only 14 people from the all the Americas combined
23 would be Muslims and 31 Christians
Only 5 would speak English
86 would be able to read and write (but more men than woman)
7 would have a college degree
40 would have an Internet connection
54 would live in cities
78 people would have shelter
1 would be dying of starvation
11 would be undernourished
And 22 would be overweight
9 people would have no safe water to drink
14 would have no toilets
18 would not have electricity
And 11 would live on less than $1.90 USD per day
Sources: 2016 - Fritz Erickson, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Ferris State University (Formerly Dean of Professional and Graduate Studies, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay) and John A. Vonk, University of Northern Colorado, 2006; Returning Peace Corps Volunteers of Madison Wisconsin, Unheard Voices: Celebrating Cultures from the Developing World, 1992; Donella H. Meadows, The Global Citizen, May 31, 1990.