The 100

Imagine that the world was made up of just 100 people, and yet everything we know about life today was still the same.  How would those 100 people represent the more than 7 billion people currently on earth?

A website called 100people.org explored this, and here is what it said would be true:

• 50 would be female, 50 would be male
• 26 would be children and 74 would be adults, 8 of whom would be 65 and older
• there would be 60 Asians, 15 Africans, 14 people from the Americas, and 11 Europeans
• there would be 33 Christians, 22 Muslims, 14 Hindus, 7 Buddhists, 12 who practice other religions, and 12 who were aligned with no religion
• 12 people would speak Chinese, 5 would speak Spanish, 5 would speak English, 3 would speak Arabic, 3 would speak Hindi, 3 would speak Bengali, 3 would speak Portuguese,  2 would speak Russian, 2 would speak Japanese, and 62 would speak other languages.
• 83 would be able to read and write, 17 would not.  7 would have a college degree, 22 would own or share a computer.
• 77 would have a place to shelter them from wind and rain, but 23 would not.
• 1 would be dying of starvation, 15 would be undernourished, 21 would be overweight.
• 87 would have access to safe drinking water. 13 would have no safe, clean water to drink.

As you read that, what thoughts come to your mind?

Does it, in any way, offer you a different perspective of the world you live in?

Is there any group or category that you might be tempted to overlook if what you read about above was, in fact, your real world of today?

What is one way you think kindness would be important?

Does thinking about this have any changing effect on your worldview?


Thanks Connie