Village of 100

The following is some food for thought regarding the World Today*:



Population in 1900 - 1.6 billion people with 20 cities of 1 million+


Population in 2000 - 6.1 billion people with 410 cities of 1 million+



If all the people of the world were represented by a village of 100 people, the world would look something like this:

ETHNICITY of the Village of 100

57 are Asian
21 are Europeans
14 are Americans (North and South)
8 are Africans


GENDER of the Village of 100

51 are female 49 are male

FAITH of the Village of 100

33 persons are Christian
67 are non-Christian

of the 67 non-Chrisitans, 33 profess Islam, 15 are Hindu, 8 are Buddhist, 8 are Atheist, and 3 have some other belief system.

SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS of the Village of 100

80 people live in substandard housing
70 people cannot read
50 people suffer malnutrition
1 has a university education

33 people are under age 15
85% of this 33 live in poverty
13 of the 33 live on the street, without home or parents (=100,000,000 street children)

50% of the wealth is owned by 6 people...all from the United States

Consider the words of Jesus as recorded in the Gospel according to Luke...

"When someone has been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been entrusted with much, even more will be required." -12:48b (NLT)




*based on figures supplied by Dr. Darrell Whiteman via Rev. Dr. Howard Mellor at the World Methodist Evangelism Institute, June 25, 2007.