- I am really surprised that our world has about 7 billion, and 50 million! I thought that it was around 3 billion.
- Asia makes up more than half of our worlds population.
- Canada and the United States makes up just 1/20 of the wolds population.
- There are nearly 6,000 different languages in the world.
- 1/5 of our worlds population is kids ages 9 or under!
- 1/2 of our worlds population is people under the age of thirty.
- 1/100 of our worlds population is people over the age of 79.
- Every 10 years, our world's population grows 3/25 of what it is before!
- By 2050, our worlds population may be only 23% of people under 20.
- 31% of worlds population uses Sheep and Goats for food resources.
- There are 7 times more of chickens populations than peoples!
- 47% of the worlds people are severely undernourished or don't have a reliable source of food.
- 87% of the people in the world have a clean and good source of water.
- 30/36 school aged people go to school. Those 6 other people work or do child labor.
- 14% of our world can't read or write!
- If every single person on earth got the same amount on money, we would each have $10,300.
- 10% of our worlds people, have 85% of our money!
- Another 10% of our people, make $2 a day.
- 50% of the worlds people has radios.
- 45% of the worlds people have televisions.
- 103% of the worlds people have cell phones.
- 28% of the worlds people are computers.
- 76% of the world people have energy, while 24% do not.
- Long ago, wood was the #1 energy source in the world.
- 73% of the world's people that use energy use fossil fuels.
- 17% use nuclear, and 10% uses renewable sources.
- 41% of the world's population lives in an area where malaria is found.
- 6% of the world's population get's malaria each year.
- In 1000 B.C.E. Only 1% of the worlds population today live in that year!
- In 1900, 32% of the world's population today lived back then.
- Around the year 2150, there will be 2.5 times more than it is now!
Write a blog entry called, "If the World Were a Village" and write about the following in paragraph format. (Don't respond to these questions individually. Incorporate them all into a paragraph.)
- Explain what surprised you about the statistics of our world.
- What upset you? What do you wish were different?
- What made you want to do something to improve a situation?
- Can you do anything to help? If so, what?
Reflection Paragraph
This book was really good. Everybody should read this book and be informed of how bad our world is and how much our world is changing. The thing that upset me the most was how much people are undernourished with food. 47%! This is crazy and unfair to the 47% of the people who are undernourished. I wish that there was some sort of technology to prevent this from happening. This thing would ration out the food with everybody equally. The thing that surprised me the most was that in the year 2150, the worlds population will be 2.5 times more than it is now. Currently our world's population is around 7.4 billion! If you do the math, the year 2150 world's population will be around 18.5 billion people! That is why we are going to be sent to mars and see if it is safe to live on mars so that our world doesn't get crammed. A situation I want to help with to improve it is to give food to others who need it. I just feel feel like we should all be treated equally but that is not the case here. Food is not rationed out equally and some of that has to do with how much money they have. We can help with this by going to help at different volunteer places like Soup Kitchen and donate food and money to people who need it the most.