If the world were

a village…
Earth is a crowded place..

How many people live on Earth?

 Class Work
We will be creating a world Fact Book based
on the Global Village:
 7 billion peo
Earth is a crowded place.. ple?

Such a large figure is hard to understand…

Imagine that the population

of the world is
a village of 100 people.
In this imaginary village, each
person would
represent 73 million people
from the real world.
Nationalities..
Where do people come
from in the global village?

61 are from Asia

13 are from Africa
12 from Europe
8 from South & Central
America & the Caribbean
5 from Canada & USA
1 from Oceania
Nationalities..
Half of the people in the village come from
the 10 most populated countries…

21 are from China

17 from India
5 from the USA
4 from Indonesia
3 from Brazil
3 from Pakistan
2 from Russia
2 from Bangladesh
2 from Japan
2 from Nigeria
Languages… More than half of the people
speak these 8 languages…

22 speak a Chinese dialect (18 Mandarin)

9 speak English
8 speak Hindi
How many
7 speak Spanish
languages can
4 speak Arabic
your class
4 speak Bengali
speak?
3 speak Portuguese
3 speak Russian
How old are people in the village?
1/5th are 9 years old or under…

10 are under 5
10 are 5 – 9 yrs On average, 1 person
19 are 10-19 yrs dies
16 are 20-29 and 3 babies
11 are 40-49 are born each year.
9 are 50-59 A baby born in
6 are 60-69 the village can
3 are 70-79 expect to live until
1 is over 79 the age of 63.
Religion
32 are Christian
19 are Muslim
13 are Hindus
12 practice Shamanism/animism/
folk religions
6 are Buddist
2 belong to other religions
e.g. Sikhism
1 is Jewish
15 are non religious
 The villagers have many animals. They help to
Food produce or are a source of food. In the village
there are:

50 people do not
have a reliable
source of food & are
hungry some/all of
31 sheep & goats the time
23 cows, bulls & oxen
15 pigs 20 are severely
undernourished.
3 camels
2 horses
189 chickens (yes,
more than the total
population)
Air & water
Fresh air & drinkable water are necessities. How
many people in the village of 100 have clean air
& water?
60 have access to
75 have access to Adequate sanitation – they
a source of safe water either have public or household
in their home or within a short Sewage disposal –
while 40 do not.
distance.

The other 25 do not and must

spend a large part of each day
simply getting safe water.
Most of the work
of collecting water is
done by women & girls.
68 breathe clean air,
while 32 breathe air that
Is unhealthy because
of pollution
Schooling & literacy
How many in the village go to school?

There are 38 school aged

children in the village, There is 1 teacher
But only 31 of them attend
School.

Of the 88 people old enough to

Read, 71 can read a little.

17 cannot read at all.

Money & possessions
How much money do people in the global village
have?

But money isn’t

divided equally…
If all the money in the
Village was divided equally,
Each person would have
About £3900 a year.

The average cost of food, shelter & The poorest

other basics is £2500 - £3000pa 20 people have less than
65 p a day.
The richest have more than
£5600 a year.
Electricity
How many people in the village have electricity?

76 have electricity…
24 do not

Of the 76 who have electricity,

Most use it only at night for light.

In the village there are:

42 radios
24 TVs
30 telephones (15 are mobiles)
10 computers
 DEVELOPMENT:
what is
“developed”?

In pairs, you have 60 seconds to consider what “developed” actually means – be

specific rather than general in your discussions
Very simplistically, the world can be split into two sections:

HICs (high income countries): these countries,

once referred to as the First World, are
characterised by high disposable incomes (money
to buy luxury goods), diverse industrialised
economies, large service sectors and high
standards of living.

LICs (lower income countries): these countries,

sometimes referred to as the Third World, are
characterised by dependency on agriculture, a low
sphere of influence and little or no disposable
incomes.
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