Just found it on the net, this is worth reading. It makes me feel humble and sad at the same time.

IF THE WORLD WERE A VILLAGE OF 100 PEOPLE

In the world today, more than 6 billion people live.
If this world were shrunk to the size of a village of 100 people, what would it look like?

61 are Asian
13 are African
12 are European
8 are North American
5 are South American and Caribbean
1 are from the South Pacific

50 are women, 50 are men
47 live in urban area
9 are disabled

33 are Christians (Catholic, Protestants, etc)
18 are Moslems
16 are non religious
14 are Hindus
6 are Buddhists
13 practice other religions
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43 live without basic sanitation
18 have no proper water sanitation
6 people own 59% of the wealth of the entire community
13 are hungry or malnourished
14 can’t read
7 are educated at secondary level
12 have a computer
3 have an Internet Connection
1 adult aged 15-49 has HIV/AIDS
The village spend US$1.12 Trillion on military expenditures
only US$100 billion will be spent on development aid
If you have a bed, a fridge, and closet and a roof over your head, you are richer than 75% of the entire population
If you have a bank account you one of the 30 wealthiest people in the community
18 people struggle to live on just US$1.00 per day or less
and 53 people live on just US$2.00 per day
If you can read this message, that means you are probably lucky!
Appreciate what you have!

(The statistics were derived from Donella Meadows “State of the Village Report” first published in 1990)

Global Awareness Comments 5 Oct 2nd, 2008

5 Responses to “The Miniature Earth”

1. aRdho Says:
   October 2nd, 2008 at 5:29 pm mau ngomong basiiiii tp kok gak tega… hehe.. met lebaran eniwei..
2. binsar Says:
   October 3rd, 2008 at 7:39 am biarin weee… kan gw baru liat hehehe… katanya udah di link ke 85,000 blog loh hahahha
3. Bersama Toba Says:
   October 5th, 2008 at 4:40 pm Salam kenal

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4. sil Says:
   October 15th, 2008 at 4:59 am yeps.. feeling lucky and sad on the same time, and start to think what can I do…. (sok bijak mode on)
5. binsar Says:
   October 30th, 2008 at 11:44 pm makanya sil, harus hemat hehehe

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