- population in 2012 is 7 billion 50 million people
- thirty two countries have 40 million people
- 100 people are in the village,
- 60 Asia
- 15 Africa
- 11 Europe
- 8 South America, central America, and Mexico and Caribbeans
- 5 are from Canada and United States
- 1 Oceania
- In the global village their are 6000 laugues
- 21 speak Chinese 9 speak Hindi 9 English 7 speak Spanish 4 speak Bengali 4 speak Arabic 3 speak Portuguese 3 speak Russian
- 9 children age 5 10
- are between 5 and 9
- 18 are between 10 and 19
- 17 are between 20 and 29
- 15 between 30 39
- 12 between 40 49
- 9 between 50 and 59
- 6 are between 60 69
- 3 are between 70 and 79
- 1 are 79 and older
- by 2050 there may be 16 of people will be over 65
- 33 Christians
- 22 Muslims
- 15 Non-religious
- or atheist 9 practice shamanism, animism and other folk religions
- 5 Buddhists
- 2 belong to other globe religions such as Judaism, confucianism, Shintoism, Sikhism, Jainism or the Baha'i faith
- are food sources are,
- 31 sheep and goats
- 23 cows, bulls and oxen
- 3 camels
- 2 horses
- 700 chickens - yes, there are seven times as many chickens as people in the global village
- 30 people in the village do not have a reliable source of food and are hungry some or all of the time
- 17 people are severely undernourished and always hungry
- 40 of the people in the village do not have food security - they cannot always be sure they will have enough to eat.
- 53 of the villagers are food secure - they have enough food to survive and even thrive
- 87 have access to a source of safe water either in their in their homes or within short distance - 13 of us have to spend all whole day getting safe water
- 62 have access to adequate sanitation - they have public or household sewage disposal - while 38 do not.
- 68 breath clean air, while 32 of us breath air that is unhealthy because of pullution
- There are 36 school aged villagers age (5 to 24) but only 30 of them attend school. There is 1 teacher for these student
- The other 6 children who could be at school but work instead
- The remaining 3 are children laborers they work in fields, factories, and mines ETC.
- 14 of them can't read or write
- There are 63 adults in the village who could have jobs, but only 52 of them are working
- 6 of them want to work can't find jobs
- 5 are in school
- There are 6 of them that retired
- the 10 richest people have nearly 85 percent of the world's wealth
- The other 80 people have something in between
- half of the people/ 50 percent in the village average about $6 a day
- The average cost of food, shelter and other necessities in the village is more that $5000 a year.
- Possessions that villagers have,
- 50 of them have radios
- 45 have televisions
- 103 telephones (more that 86 are cell phones)
- 28 computers
- There are also 2 trucks, 10 automobiles and 20 bicycles
- People in the village who have electricity,
- 76 have electricity
- 24 do not
- most of the people who have energy use it only at night
- Most sources of energy are,
- 73 use fossil fuels
- 17 comes from nuclear power
- 10 comes form renewable sources, such as wind and water
- In 1850 newborn would live to 38
- In 1900 life grew to 47
- today most live to 68
- 41 people live in areas where malaria is found
- 6 people in the village contract malaria each year
- 80 people in the village are able to be cured from dieases
- 20 are not able to be cured
- village changes on the number of people like crazy
- in 2150 an average 250 people will be on earth
- This is an important number because many scientists think on earth only 250 people can be on earth
- The government and United Nations are working to keep the world a great village
- We might have to go to Mars because the earth does not have enough space for us
I thought this was a very cool book. it included really cool facts like one at the end I thought was really amazing, by 2150 instead of there being 100 people in the village there would be 350 people. There was so much things that I learned like how easy and hard it is to find things for people, it made me appreciate my life a lot more than I have ever in a long time. I also learned how lucky I am to eat fresh food and clean water because some of the people in the world are homeless and and not clean.