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

The current world population is 8,250,507,321 which is a very large number so we could round it down to 8.25 billion give or take a few of the smaller Islands (sorry Jersey and Guernsey)but i found a Youtube video from some very clever people at Global Learning in Belfast which condensed the whole world down to a village of 100 people to see how the World really works and just how unequal it is.
The first thing is nationality and if the world were only 100 people, 61 would be Asian 13 people would be from Africa, 12 people would be from Europe, 6 people would be from North America and 6 South America and only one person would be from Oceania.  
Next thing it looked at was age and out of the 100 people, 70 would be adults and 30 would be children and 52 out of the 100 people would be female and 48 male.
Obviously all those people would need to speak to each other otherwise it would be a very lonely place but considering we all speak many different language, what language would we use?
Of the 100, 17 would speak Chinese, 9 people would speak English, 8 people would speak Hindi, 6 people would speak Spanish and 6 people would speak Russian with four Arabic speaking and the remaining 50 people would speak various other language which means there would be 50 people who could only talk to themselves or would be loaning out Chinese Speaking For Dummies so they could speak to 17 other people, but not everyone would have a library card as of the 100, 86 of those people would be able to read but 14 of those people are unable to read.
If we were just 100 people, only 1 person would have a further education certificate which on the plus side also means only one person in our world would have massive student loan debt to repay.
Always a problem since humans began but of the available religions, 33 would be Christians, then 24 people would be atheists, 19 of those people would be Muslim, 13 would be Hindu and 6 would be Buddhist and the remaining 5 people would believe something else which wouldn't be very lucrative when the plate got passed around unless of course they are one of the rich people.
In the world of just a hundred people, six of those people would own 59% of all the world's wealth, 74 would own the next 39% and 20 would share only the remaining 2% but they wouldn't be spending it on light bulbs because 24 out of the 100 would not even have access to basic electricity and even worse, 32 people would be breathing air which is above the UN guide on air quality and safe pollution levels.
So the air may be polluted but what about safe drinking water? 83 people would be safe which would please the British as we could have a lovely cup of tea but 17 wouldn't risk it as their water is unsafe and undrinkable and as for food, 50 would not have access to a regular supply of food with 15 overweight and more than enough food and 20 underweight with not enough.
When you expand the village of 100 back into real numbers it is alarming to understand that of the 8.25 billion of us, 2,640,000,000 breathe polluted air, 1,650,000,000 are without enough food and 1,402,500,000 are without safe drinking water. Frightening thought but credit to Northern Ireland's Global Learning, great work.
I was so impressed that i wondered what the UK as a village of 100 people would look like but that is far beyond what my braincells could handle but luckily my fellow blogger is a complete geek with spreadsheets and loves this kind of thing so over to you Rev.