excerpt from WISDOM OF OTHERS, (see Aug 31, 2010). This was printed in the UTNE READER, July/August 1990. p144, from World Development Forum (April 15, 1990)
If our world were a village of 1,000 people, what would its ethnic and religious composition be? IRED Forum, a publication of the Geneva-based ...Development Innovations and Networks, cites the approximate populations as follows:
In the village would be:
564 Asians
210 Europeans
86 Africans
80 South Americans
60 North Americans
There would be:
300 Christians (183 Catholics, 84 Protestants, 33 Orthodox)
175 Moslems
128 Hindus
55 Buddhists
47 Animists
210 without any religion or atheist
Of these people:
60 would control half the total income
500 would be hungry
600 would live in shantytowns
700 would be illiterate
Has it changed significantly since then?
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