State of the Village Report

State of the Village Report

This article I found to be very interesting as it breaks down the world into a Village made up of 1000 people. It takes a look into the many details to which percentage of people in every race they would represent out of the 1000 to the religions that are most and least followed. There are some statistics that are predictable and others that are very surprising. I am going to describe the few that stood out to my eye.

The initial “gut” reaction I had to the description of the world if it were a village was shock to how many people in the world don’t have the same resources and help that I have here in the United States. The fact that only 52 people in the village would be from North America is astonishing to me. I always compared the U.S. to be a major country in the population of the world, mainly because of the size of all the states and the many large cities. I found it eye opening that North America was actually the second lowest out of the 7 divisions of countries, placing only above Australians and New Zealanders.

A factor that didn’t surprise me was that the religion of Christianity would represent 300 out of the 1000 people. That is the most compared to any other religion. I was aware of how large Christianity has grown. Another factor that is believable is that one third (330) would be children. The shocking part is that only half of those children would be immunized against diseases such as measles and polio. It is amazing that we have preventable shots for those diseases yet many cultures are either too poor to afford them or they just don’t know that it can be prevented from making their children ill.

The next descriptive factor says that out of the 1000 people, only 70 would have a vehicle! Learning this made me realize how fortunate I am to own my own car. I never took it for granted but now I really appreciate driving it and be able to have that