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World View -A World of Diversity

Empathy Building Activity

Purpose: Participants explore and celebrate diversity on a global scale.

Imagine the entire population of the world was shrunk to precisely 100
and everyone lived on an island.
Ask participants to consider how they think the population would be split
between:
Male and female? Different cultures? Wealth? Education?
Health?
White and non-white? Christian and non-Christian?
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Answers

If The World Were a Village of 100


If we could turn the population of the earth into a small community of 100 people, keeping the same
proportions we have today, it would look something like this...

ETHNICITY:
61 Asians
13 Africans
12 Europeans
8 North Americans
5 South Americans & the Carribean
1 from Oceania

GENDER:
50 male
50 female
Age:
25 would be 0-14
66 would be 15-64
9 would be 65 and older
RELIGION:
33 are Christian
21 are Muslims
13 are Hindus
6 are Buddhists
1 is Sikhs
1 is Jewish
11 practice other religions
11 are non-religious
3 are Atheists
SKIN COLOR:
70 non-white
30 white
LANGUAGE:
17 speak Chinese
9 speak English
8 speak Hindi
6 speak Russian
6 speak Spanish
4 speak Arabic
50 speak other languages

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FOOD:
30 would always have enough to eat (15 would be overweight)
50 would be malnourished
20 would be undernouished (1 would be dying of starvation) FREEDOMS:
48 cant speak, act according to their faith and conscience due to harassment, imprisonment,
torture or death
20 live in fear of death by bombardment, armed attack, landmines, or of rape or kidnapping by
armed groups
EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY:
12 are unable to read
1 has a college degree
12 own a computer
8 have an internet connection
HEALTH:
12 are disabled
1 adult has HIV/AIDS
LIVING STANDARDS
43 live without basic sanitation
20 have no clean, safe water to drink
80 live in substandard housing
32 breathe polluted air
MONEY:
6 people own 59% of the worlds wealth (all of them from the United States)
74 people own 39%
20 people share the remaining 2%
21 people live on $1.25 (US) per day or less
The village spend $1.24 trillon (US) on military expenditures
$100 billion (US) on development aid
If you keep your food in a refrigerator
your clothes in a closet
If you have a bed to sleep in
and a roof over your head
you are richer than 75% of the entire world population Appreciate what you have & do your best for a better
world. Adapted from (2016 data): https://usm.maine.edu

Were you surprised by any of your answers?


How accurate were you in your estimations?

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