Have a look at the following statistics and thank God for how blessed you are!
If we could reduce the
world's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing
human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like
this: The village would have 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, 8 Latin
Americans, 5 from the USA and Canada, and 1 from the South Pacific. 51 would be
male, 49 would be female. 82 would be non-white; 18 white. 67 would be
non-Christian; 33 would be Christian. 80 would live in substandard housing. 67
would be unable to read. 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.). 7 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. 33 would be receiving --and
attempting to live on-- only 3% of the income of "the village".[i]
[i] http://www.familycare.org/special-interest/if-the-world-were-a-village-of-100-people/
found 8/9/2011
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