+ If the world were a village of 100 people:

  • 61 villagers would be Asian (of that, 20 would be Chinese and 17 would be Indian), 14 would be African,
  • 11 would be European,
  • 9 would be Latin or South American,
  • 5 would be North American,
  • none of the villagers would be from Australia, Oceania, or Antarctica.
  • At least 18 villagers would be unable to read or write but 33 would have cellular phones and 16 would be online on the Internet.
  • 27 villagers would be under 15 years of age and 7 would be over 64 years old.
  • There would be an equal number of males and females.
  • There would be 18 cars in the village.
  • 63 villagers would have inadequate sanitation.


+ Out of the 100 people:

  • 33 villagers would be Christians,
  • 20 would be Muslims,
  • 13 would be Hindus,
  • 6 would be Buddhists,
  • 2 would be atheists,
  • 12 would be non-religious,
  • and the remaining 14 would be members of other religions.

  • 30 villagers would be unemployed or underemployed.

+ while of those 70 who would work,

  • 28 would work in agriculture (primary sector),
  • 14 would work in industry (secondary sector),
  • and the remaining 28 would work in the service sector (tertiary sector).

  • 53 villagers would live on less than two U.S. dollars a day,
  • One villager would have AIDS,
  • 26 villagers would smoke,
  • and 14 villagers would be obese.

  • By the end of a year, one villager would die and two new villagers would be born so thus the population would climb to 101.

4 Responses to “If the world were a village of 100 people !!”

  1. o man this always comes on tree house channel…the first few hundred times it was nice…but now i want to scream whenever they put it on! but my son gets all excited when he hears the arabic and muslim stuff…

  2. Anyway, I liked to put these stats and numbers here too.

  3. Interesting!

    Do more that 50% of the earth population live on under 2$ a day?! Sad!

  4. The Observer; aha, so you observed that man, thanks for commenting.