3. Nationalities
5 12 61
61 people are from A s ia 13
8 1
13 people are from A frica
12 people are from E urope
8 people are from S outh & C entral A merica & the
C aribbean
5 people are from C anada & the US A
• pers on is from Oceania (A us tralia, new Zealand
& the Pacific is lands )
4. More than half the people c ome from
the 10 mos t populated c ountries …
• 21 people are from C hina
• 17 people are from India
• 5 people are from the US A
• 4 people are from Indones ia
• 3 people are from B razil
• 3 people are from Pakis tan
• 2 people are from Rus s ia
• 2 people are from B anglades h
• 2 people are from J apan
• 2 people are from Nigeria
5. In the global village there are almos t
6000 languages but more than half of the
people s peak thes e eight….
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22 people s peak a C hines e
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dialect
• 9 people s peak E nglis h Sel ma pa
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o • 8 people s peak Hindi
• 7 people s peak S panis h Zdr z v t
a ooy eh
• 4 people s peak A rabic
Na st
ma e • 4 people s peak Bengali
• 3 people s peak Portugues e Aa
hl n
• 3 people s peak Rus s ian
6. A ges : here are the ages of the
villagers
• 10 are children under age 5
• 10 are children between 5 and 9
• 19 are between 10 and 19
• 16 are between 20 and 29
• 15 are between 30 and 39 On average 1 pers on
• 11 are between 40 and 49 dies and 3 babies are
born each year
• 9 are between 50 and 59
• 6 are between 60 and 69
• 3 are between 70 and 79
• 1 is over 79
7. Religions : in the village of
100 people …..
• 32 are C hris tians
• 19 are Mus lims
• 13 are Hindus
• 12 practis e s hamanis m, animis m
and other folk religions
• 6 are B uddhis ts
• 2 belong to other global religions
s uch as B aha’i, S hintois m,
S ikhis m
• 1 is J ewis h
• 15 are non religious
8. Food : the villagers rear animals whic h
help to produc e food or are a s ource of
food
There are :
• 31 s heep and goats
• 23 cows , bulls and oxen
• 15 pigs
• 3 camels
• 2 hors es
• 189 c hickens (nearly twice as many chickens as
people)
9. There is no s hortage of food in
the global village but the food
is not divided equally………
50 people do not have a reliable
s ourc e of food and are hungry s ome
or all of the time
20 people are s everely
undernouris hed
Only 30 people always have enough to
eat
10. A ir and water: fres h air and clean
drinking water are neces s ities ….
In the global village:
75 people have acces s to s afe water in their homes or
within a s hort dis tance
25 people have to s pend a large part of each day getting
water
60 people have acces s to adequate s anitation
40 people do not have acces s to public or hous ehold
s ewage dis pos al
68 people breathe clean air
32 people breathe air which is polluted
11. S chooling and Literacy
Of the 38 s c hool-aged villagers , only 31
c hildren attend s c hool
Of the 88 people old enough to read, 71
people c an read at leas t a little but
17 people c annot read at all
More males are taught to read than
females
12. Wealth
If all the money in the village were divided
equally, each pers on would have about US $ 9350
per year.
However the money is not divided equally….
The riches t 10 have more than US $ 25 000 a year
The poores t 10 have only US $1 per day.
75 of the 100 people average US $4 per day.
The average cos t of food, s helter and
neces s ities in the village is US $5000 per year
13. A cces s to E lectricity
In our global village…
76 people have electric ity
24 people do not
Of the 76 people who have electricity mos t
us e it only for light at night
S ome villagers have luxuries that depend on
electricity. In the village there are:
42 radios 24 televis ions
30 telephones 10 computers
14. How has the village grown?
A round 3000 years ago only 1 pers on lived in the village
2500 years ago there were 2 people
2000 years ago there were 3 people
1000 years ago there were 5 people
500 years ago there were 8 people
350 years ago there were 10 people
200 years ago there were 17 people
100 years ago there were 32 people
In 2002 there were 100 people
15. The village in the future?
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