[Infographic] The World as 100 People

Screen Shot 2015-06-20 at 11.40.41The world has 7.323 billion people living on it (as of 20 June 2015, source Worldometer).

The World as a Village of 100

If the world was a village of 100 people, 48 live on less than $2 a day.  21 are overweight and 16 are hungry.  12 speak Chinese, 5 spanish and 5 english.  49 live in the countryside and 51 in the village.  26 are under 14, and 8 are over 65.

Check out the infographic below for a wonderful representation of the world as a village of 100 people.

Infographic thanks to https://jackhagley.com/

What do you think?  Does it match with your assumptions about who we are sharing the planet with?

Author: Conor Neill

Hi, I’m Conor Neill, an Entrepreneur and Teacher at IESE Business School. I speak about Moving People to Action.

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