If The Entire World Were A Village of 100 People It Would Look Like......

[global1]

this: http://users.gazinter.net/melan/Warn/Warnenu.htm

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I've always loved that breakdown. Never saw it animated before!

[Katzenjammer]

19. The animation detracts -- it's really a very serious and saddening breakdown

[etherealtruth]

2. I've always loved this

It brings tears to my eyes every time ... and it reminds me to be grateful for the life I have.

[sarge43]

3. Thank you for posting this, global1

So many blessings and small miracles we take for granted every day.

[Clark2008]

4. When did men become 51 percent of the total population?

I thought the breakdown was 49 percent male and 51 percent female. This says the opposite.

Just wondering if anyone can provide me with a link on that.

[rucky]

5. Maybe India and China tipped the balance? n/t

[Clark2008]

7. Could be since they kill off a good portion of the female children.

[mirandapriestly]

8. It's true, females used to outweigh males

I looked up the birth statistics even in the U.S. and there are now more males. People of all races selectively kill female fetuses. There is some "boys rights" woman who lives in the south and used to write about how boys are being treated unfairly because girls are finally getting a fair shake. I really let her have it and one of the facts I gave her was that people abort female children, many don't even get a chance to "steal boys rights". I never saw her write anything after that, I'm sure she is though.
My dad's a retired physician and says that people do it all the time. Rich people can select sex with some method of predeterminination now, also, I'm sure , but that probably doesn't effect statistics....

[Arugula Latte]

9. I think that's an interesting question in the U.S., though.

I have lots of discussions with people about their gender preference for their babies. It's always couched with, of course we'd love either one, etc. However, it seems like the majority of people I poll do have a preference for a girl.

[Dirty Hippie]

6. Gawd - Did they have to use all of those animated GIFs? n/t

[Laelth]

10. Nifty

Had to show this to my wife and two children. It's important to remember how fortunate we are.

:dem:

-Laelth

[Straight Shooter]

11. 1 percent of the world's population is infected with HIV.

Thank you, Saint Ronald Reagan, for moving so swiftly to address the AIDS crisis when it emerged.

:sarcasm:

[Maestro]

12. Some of the more disturbing stats

67 percent can not read. Only one percent would be college educated. 33 percent would not have access to safe water. 1 percent with HIV and 50% malnourished. Meanwhile our idiot leader is running the country into the ground in Iraq. :eyes:

[rman]

17. 50% malnourished

I think malnourishment is a form of dying of starvation - it certainly shortens people's life span significantly, as does dying of starvation.

It's just that 1% is even worse of than the other 49%.

[longship]

13. Recommended and kicked

:kick:

[cyberpj]

14. 2006 data here:

http://www.100people.org/statistics_100stats.php

[Maestro]

20. Thanks for the update.

:hi:

[mtnsnake]

15. Those who complain about globalization or outsourcing might wanna think about this

once in a while. It puts things in a different perspective.

What a great piece that is.

[rman]

18. Globalization is what causes this

Globalization as in Free Trade Agreements, which are nothing less than a scheme for exploitation under the veil of "helping" the poor. Outsourcing more often than not results in what is in effect slavery that benefits the large and powerful corporations that do the outsourcing.
It is the very reason why people complain about globalization and outsourcing.


see
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2969674&mesg_id=2969674

Year End Report On Global Inequality
Deeply Unequal World
Sam Pizzigati | December 20, 2006
Editor: Emily Schwartz Greco, IPS
Foreign Policy In Focus
www.fpif.org

Some people, at year's end, like to spread holiday cheer. The world might do better, suggests a landmark new report from the United Nations University in Helsinki, to start spreading wealth. The new study--the first ever to tally, for the entire world, all the major elements of household wealth, everything from financial assets and debts to land, homes, and other tangible property--finds some $125.3 trillion worth of wealth about in the world, as of the year 2000.

If that wealth were divided in perfectly equal shares among all the world’s 3.7 billion adults, every adult on Earth would hold a net worth of just under $34,000 in U.S. dollars, according to The World Distribution of Household Wealth report.

Most Wealth in Few Pockets

In real life, says this new report, released by the United Nations University’s World Institute for Development Economics Research, half the world’s adults hold under one-tenth that modest sum, less than $2,161. The vast bulk of the world’s wealth, the study observes, sits “highly concentrated” in the pockets of a relative few. How concentrated? The richest 5 percent of the world’s adults--minimum net worth, $150,145--hold 70.6 percent of the world’s wealth. The richest 1 percent--minimum wealth, $514,512--hold 39.9 percent of the world's wealth all by themselves, 13,000 times more than the entire bottom 10 percent.

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Super-Rich Not Counted

How accurately do all these global numbers reflect the actual distribution of the world’s household wealth? If anything, notes the UN University study authors, their report understates just how unequal the world’s wealth distribution has become. Their base survey data, they explain, “do not reflect the holdings of the super-rich.”

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Governing for the Elite

Governments that reflect these extreme inequalities in power, the World Bank economist added, tend to govern not in the public interest, but in the interest of wealthy elites.

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http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3819


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"We tried to help Bolivia, it went under. We tried to help Brazil, it exploded. We tried to help Indonesia, it was burning in riots. Maybe there's a pattern here.
Our systems for eliminating barriers, eliminating unions, cause pain, but not pain that leads to gain, it's pain that leads to collapse, failure and economic death."
- Joe Stiglitz, former Chief Economist for the World Bank

For suggesting, simply suggesting that they reevaluate their positions, the World Bank fired him. He wasn't even allowed to resign, he was banished from the entire World Bank.

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=128&row=1

[rep the dems]

16. My teacher showed us that a few months ago, except without the

illustrations. Really eye-opening.