Friday, August 24, 2007

Post-majority World

We are aleady in a post-majority world.

According to the World Development Forum, if you lived in a representative global village of 1,000, there would be:

564 Asians
210 Europeans
86 Africans
80 South Americans
60 North Americans

There would be -
 
300 Christians (183 Catholics, 84 Protestants and 33 Orthodox)
175 Moslems
128 Buddhists
47 Animists
210 without any religion (a few confessed atheists)
85 from miscellaneous religious groups

Of this village -
 
60 would control half the total income
500 would be hungry
600 would live in shanty-towns
700 would be illiterate