If there were just 100 people in the world...

On Sunday night, my husband, son and I were sitting down to dinner. We were asking my son, who is 7, how many people, as a %, did he think there were in the world lucky enough to sit down to the sort of meal we were having? He said 75%! We got into discussing all sorts of ways we're privileged, and I thought it would interesting to find out some facts...

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, there would be:

57 Asians

21 Europeans

14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south

8 Africans

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

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 have a college education

1 would own a computer

• If you woke up this morning with more health than illness... you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.


• If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ... you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.


• If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death ... you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.


• If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep ... you are richer than 75% of this world.


• If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

Kinda makes you think, huh? Talk about "challenges"...