100 People

**100 people**
The Friendly Federation Founded to Serve	Southeast Federation of Mineralogical Societies, Inc.

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:

THERE WOULD BE------

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North & South
8 from other places

52 would be female, 48 would be male.

70 would be non-white, 30 would be white.

70 would be non-Christian, 30 would be Christian.

89 would be heterosexual, 11 would be homosexual.

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from 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, 1 would own a computer.

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both acceptance, understanding, and education becomes glaringly apparent.

by Phillip M. Harter MD, FACEP
Stanford University, School of Medicine,
from Quarry Quips, 9/99, via GOLDEN SPIKE NEWS 12/99-1/00
Vol. 44, #8 “The Glacial Drifter”