“If the World were 100 People”

25 are children
75 are adults (9 are 65+)

60 Asians
16 Africans
14 people from the Americas
10 Europeans

31 Christians
23 Muslims
16 people w/o religion
15 Hindus
7 Buddhists
8 other

Languages:
12 Chinese
6 Spanish
5 English
4 Hindi
3 Arabic
3 Bengali
3 Portuguese
2 Russian
2 Japanese
60 other

86 can read & write
7 have a college degree
40 have Internet
78 have shelter
91 have access to safe drinking water

Source: 100people.org based on 2016 #data

@Sheril

22 have no shelter
9 do not have safe drinking water

yikes!

@leslore @Sheril
Let's provide those people with safe drinking water.

Resist the urge to abandon and embrace assisting others.

Key words: embrace assisting others.

@leslore @Sheril Social and other media is accustomed to spreading bad news, but the decade on decade reductions in those starving, those without shelter, or basic education, or without safe drinking water or electricity is all good news. https://ourworldindata.org/12-key-metrics
12 key metrics to understand the state of the world

At Our World in Data we present data and research – across more than 3000 charts – on the world’s largest problems. But some metrics are core to our work: here we present 12 that are key to understanding the state of the world.

Our World in Data

@copsewood @Sheril

yes - good to hear that things seem to be getting somewhat better

I hope you can understand I still feel dismayed that there is as much suffering as there is

@leslore @Sheril 1.7 billion people & 720 million people respectively ☹️