A Global Village of 100 People looks like...

Ken Wilber in his book, "A Theory of Everything" (2001) uses the work of Dr. Phillip Harter of Standford University School of Medicine to show this interesting example.

"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of only 100 people, it would look something like this:

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 North and South Americans
8 Africans
30 White, 70 Non-white
6 people would possess 59% of the 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 malnutrition
1 would have a college education
1 would own a computer

Not sure if this would vary much for 2009 but as we enter this new year it is an interesting view of our world. I feel a growing global awareness that we do all live on the one planet and that maybe we should get along a bit better than we do today. Both with each other and with our world.

Happy New Year, and to paraphrase Lennon, "let's make it a good one"

Cheers,

Rob