.....from the Cat Files.....

A Summary of the World
If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this:
There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere (North and South) and 8 Africans.
51 would be female, 49 would be male
70 would be non-white, 30 white
70 would be non-Christian, 30 Christian
50% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people and all 6 would be citizens of the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death, 1 would be near birth
Only 1 would have a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes glaringly apparent........