Blarne Flinkard wrote:
>
>                      A Summary of the World
>
> 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.
>
> 51 would be female; 49 would be male
> 70 would be nonwhite; 30 white
> 70 would be non-christian; 30 Christian
> 6 people would have in their control 50% or the world's wealth and all of
> them would be citizens of 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 would have a college education
> No one would own a computer
Not a bad summary I must say.