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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

What If Huntington Only Had 100 People?

I am in Washington, D.C. this week accompanying my wife who is attending a Goodwill Industries Conference. She obtained these statistics during one of her business sessions. I am very interested in Huntington's demographics, and I wonder how Huntington would stack up with the whole world's population demographics? Here are the figures, if the world only had 100 people:

57 would be Asians
52 would be female
70 would be non-Christian
89 would be heterosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would live in the U.S.A.
80 people would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 would have a college education
1 would own a computer

Thought provoking, isn't it? Comments?