If the earth's population today was a village of precisely
100 people, with the existing human ratios remaining the same, it
would look something like the following:

There would be:
 57 Asians
 21 Europeans
 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
 8 Africans

 52 would be female
 48 would be male

 70 would be non-white
 30 would be white

 70 would be non-Christian
 30 would be Christian

 6 people would possess 59% of the entire wealth
 and all 6 would be from 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
 1 would have a college education
 1 would own a computer

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness
of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation
you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a religious meeting without fear of harassment,
arrest, torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof
overhead and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very
rare, even in the United States and Canada.

If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over
two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.