I have seen several version of this "World Summary."

None of which are correct.

World Population Profile: 1996
<http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/wp96.html>

Full Document (pdf: 4.9 Mb) released October 1996

    Contents (pdf: 40 Kb)
    Highlights (pp.1-2) (pdf: 37 Kb)
    Introduction (pp. 3-4)(pdf: 37 Kb)
    Population Size and Growth (pp. 5-15) (pdf: 193 Kb)
    Population Composition (pp. 17-26) (pdf: 181 Kb)
    Components of Change (pp. 27-32) (pdf: 117 Kb)
    Fertility (pp. 33-37) (pdf: 1.6 Mb)
    Mortality (pp. 38-48) (pdf: 933 Kb)
    International Migration and
    Demographic Goals and Demographic Realities (pp. 48-56) (pdf: 131 Kb)
    Contraceptive Prevalence (pp. 57-70) (pdf: 229 Kb)
    Focus on Adolescent Fertility in the Developing World (pp. 71-88)
    Appendix A. Detailed Tables (pdf: 389 Kb)
        Lotus 1-2-3 .WK1 versions of individual Appendix Tables
        Zipped version of all Lotus 1-2-3 .WK1 Appendix Table files
    Appendix B. Population Projections and Availability of Data
        Making Population Projections
        Population Projections Incorporating AIDS
        Availability of Data
    Appendix C. References (pdf: 100 Kb)
    Appendix D. Glossary (pdf: 123 Kb)

See below.


On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Blarne Flinkard wrote:

>                      A Summary of the World (Corrected)
>
> If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100
> people ... with all existing human ratios, it would look like this:
>
> There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere
> (North and South) and 8 Africans.


There would be 48 Asians, 30 Other, 22 African, 10 Europeans,

>
> 51 would be female; 49 would be male

  70 would be female; 28 would be male; 02 would not be classified by gender

> 70 would be nonwhite; 30 white

  90 would be nonwhite; 10 white

> 70 would be non-christian; 30 Christian

  80 would be non-christian; 10 Christian; 10 would be neither

> 6 people would have in their control 50% or the world's wealth and all of
> them would be citizens of the United States

  8 people would have in their control 65% of the world's wealth and 4
    of them would be citizens of the United States

> 80 would live in substandard housing

  90 would live in substandard housing

> 70 would be unable to read

  85 would be unable to read

> 50 would suffer from malnutrition

  75 would suffer from malnutrition

> 1 would be near death, 1 would be near birth

IF 1 would be near death, 2 would be near birth.

One birth every 8 seconds
One death every 13 seconds

> 1 would have a college education

> No one would own a computer

  1 would own a computer

  0  would own a telephone