There are a lot of crazy numbers in the world, some low some high. I learned all about the people, religions, food and many more in If the Village were a World, by David.J.Smith. If the world were a village 100 people world live there. That is not a lot, considering 7.046 billion live on earth today. People are from all over the world. 60 are from Asia, 15 from Africa, 11 from Europe, 8 from South America/Central America/Mexico, 5 from Canada/US, and 1 from Australia. This is crazy! It really show show who how populated Asia is. The world village is filled with many different religions. 33 are Christians, 22 are Muslims, 15 follow no religion, 14 are Hindu, 9 practice Shamanism, 5 are Buddhist, and 2 follow an other religion, for example Judaism. Those numbers make up the number of people who live in the world village. We also learned about what percentage of the world would starve. 30 have a little food to keep them nurtured. 17 good die hungry. 53, a huge number have food security. This broke my heart. Knowing how fortune some places are made me wonder why so many places have to starve and have unhealthy water and air.So many live in an area's with disease,38 do. WOW! This book opened my eyes to see what the future would look like. And in 2150, 250 people will live, packed in the world village.
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