I've heard about this way of depicting our world's people before but today when I heard it again I thought about it in a different way. Usually it has a way of hitting me strong and serves as a reminder of just how blessed I truly am. Today when I heard it, it made me think about our kids. In terms of the world our children are a small percentage. To us, they are our world.
Here's how the breakdown goes:
If we could reduce the world’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this:
The village would have 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, 8 Latin Americans, 5 from the USA and Canada, and 1 from the South Pacific
51 would be male, 49 would be female
82 would be non-white; 18 white
67 would be non-Christian; 33 would be Christian
80 would live in substandard housing
67 would be unable to read
50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation
33 would be without access to a safe water supply
39 would lack access to improved sanitation
24 would not have any electricity (And of the 76 that do
have electricity, most would only use it for light at night.)
7 people would have access to the Internet
1 would have a college education
1 would have HIV
2 would be near birth; 1 near death
5 would control 32% of the entire world’s wealth; all 5 would be US citizens
33 would be receiving --and attempting to live on-- only 3% of the income of “the village”
This information is taken from Family Care Foundation (familycare.org)
Hopefully after reading this you feel the same way I did, BLESSED, beyond blessed. So blessed in fact that it moves me to desire a greater daily sense of belonging to the world. Makes me want to use myself in anyway that is possible to make the lives around me more joyful. From my smiles, to my time, to my gifts; I want to give in all the ways that I can because WE BEYOND BLESSED.
If this moved you in the way that it moved me and made you want to give shoot us an email about giving time, money, and your talents to our beautiful children.
Much love!
