100 Person Village

There was a kids show on TreeHouse the other day that was teaching what the world looked like if it was made up of 100 people. I thought it was quite interesting, so I looked up some of the facts on the internet. Now bear in mind this is an average as the reports were not all as up-to-date as I would have liked them to be, the show seemed more accurate and in-depth.

If the world were a 100 person village this is what it would look like:

49 people are female 51 people are male
50 people are over age 26
50 people are under 26
30 people are age 0-14
63 people are age 15-6
47 people are 65 and over

34 people are Christians
22 people are Muslim
15 people are Hindu
14 people are non-religious
6 people are Buddhist
4 people practice Chinese traditional religion
5 people practice other faiths

14 people speak Mandarin
6 speak Hindi
6 speak Spanish
6 speak English
3 speak Bengali
3 speak Portuguese
3 speak Russian
2 speak Japanese
2 speak German the remaining
55 people speak 200 other languages

18 people are overweight
16 people are underfed
66 people are at a healthy weight
3 of the underfed children suffer from stunted growth
3 of the overweight people have diabetes

83 people have safe drinking water
17 people don’t

60 people have modern sanitation facilities
40 people don’t

1 person will die this year
2 women will give birth, one to a boy, and one to a girl

1 person has HIV
3 people have diabetes

16 women and girls have been beaten or sexually abused in their lives
33 haven’t been

Between them the 100 people each year consume:90,000 cigarettes
20 people smoke tobacco (averaging 4,500 cigarettes per year each!)
80 people are non-smokers
12 kids are secondhand smokers

2 people smoke pot
1 person uses some other illegal drug

1 person has a college education
14 adults are illiterate
56 adults are literate
12 school age kids are in school
2 school kids aren’t in school, one boy and one girl

50 people are not members of the paid workforce
33 members of the workforce have steady jobs
17 members of the workforce are unemployed or underemployed
2 children under age 15 work full time, one doing farm work and the other in industry
2 children work part time, both doing farm work
1 woman is a teacher
0.5 men are soldiers
1 men are incarcerated

Between them the 100 people have:
2 Internet hosts
8 personal computers
9 newspaper subscriptions
17 phones lines
25 television sets
43 radios
of the 17 phone lines:10 of them belong to just 15 people 7 are shared by the other 85 people

Between them the 100 people keep over 400 farm animals:
240 chickens
15 ducks
4 geese
4 turkeys
18 sheep
15 pigs
12 goats
22 head of cattle
3 buffalo
78 rabbits

73 people live in homes that have electricity
27 people don't geography

47 people live in the city
53 people live in the country
99 people live at home1 person is a refugee

55 people live in electoral democracies
45 people don't continents

12 people live in Europe
13 people live in Africa
14 people live in North and South America
60 people live in Asia1 person lives in Oceania

Between them the 100 people have:
9 cars
3 trucks and busses
30 bicycles

Between them the 100 people have:
8 guns


Sources:
http://www.gumption.org/2002/village/village.htm
http://www.mysterra.org/webmag/coup-de-coeur_en.html
http://faculty.philau.edu/russowl/villageof1000.html

The book the TV show was based on is available here:
"If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World's People" - David Smith
http://www.amazon.ca/If-World-Were-Village-Worlds/dp/1550747797