If The UK Was A Village Of 100 People...

Following the great work by the some very clever people at Global Learning in Belfast who took the 8.2 billion people currently on the Earth and shrank the World down to a village of just 100 people, my blog colleague put pen to paper and finger to calculator and the 2021 Census and various other statistical authorities to produce a snapshot of Britain today, squishing all 69 million of us into a village of 100 people.

So if Britain were a village of 100 people...

There would be 51 females and 49 males with 17 under the age of 15, while another 16 would be 65 or over and 3 of them over 80 years old.
92 of the villagers would be white, 2 would be black, 2 Indian, 1 Pakistani, 1 of mixed race and 2 would be of other races and of the 4 nations making up the UK, 84 of them would live in England, 8 in Scotland, 5 in Wales and 3 in Northern Ireland..
6 people would be gay or lesbian and 40 adults would be married, 11 would live alone and 4 would still live with their parents.
Identifying as Christian would be 72 people, 15 people would say that they were not religious, while there would be 2 Muslims, 1 Hindu and 10 people who practised other religions.
17 of the villagers would smoke, 19 adults and 3 children would be classified as obese and 16 men and 8 women would exceed daily the Government's sensible drinking benchmark with 8 men and 4 women having taken an illegal drug in the past year.
8 people would have asthma, 8 adults would be suffering from depression and 1 would have dementia. Amongst the 100 villagers there would be 118 mobile phones, 90 televisions sets and 32 of those would be connected to satellite, digital or cable television with 27 households having access to the internet, 30 people would have a Facebook account and 1 person in the village would be illiterate.
Of the 62 villagers of working age, 45 would have jobs, 9 of them would be in the public sector and 7 people would be in further education with 4 unemployed and 20 people receiving the state pension, 12 of them female and 8 male.
The richest 10 people in the village would earn more than the poorest 50 combined with 2 adults not having access to a bank account at all.
If Britain were a village of 100 people, there would be 3 vegetarians and 5 partial vegetarians and 78 of the villagers would have a passport and 55 would have a driving licence.

A big thank you to the Rev for this.