If The World Was A Village of 100 People . . . . .

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How often have we heard of statistics like 20% of the world's population lives below the poverty level or 14% are illiterate? While profound, for most of us, it is hard to visualize how severe the issue really is. To make it simpler to understand, Hong Kong based graphic designer Tobt Ng has created a series of designs dubbed the 'World of 100'.

The set of 20 posters graphically depict all these confusing statistics using the assumption that the world comprises of a village of just one hundred people - The result as you can see, is both entertaining and quite illuminating.

These are some stunning statistics, aren't they? To see the rest of his posters go to http://www.toby-ng.com/graphic-design/the-world-of-100

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  • vonicat
    vonicatabout 11 years
    I was really surprised about the education, I was raised believing that you must to go to college when you are older so I was really surprised that out of a hundred only 1 person would go. Also, it seems fine to only have 1 person that is dying of starvation (because you know that it actually happens in the world) but it's only out of a hundred and the world population is exactly 7,233,519,289 so just wow!
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    • rozeb
      rozebabout 11 years
      Wow. That is just amazing. I would be so shocked. I mean, only 13 people in the Americas? That would be one big country. If you know what I mean.
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      • shinedown
        shinedownabout 11 years
        wow
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        • iamacow
          iamacowabout 11 years
          Not many people have diplomas right?
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          • lilyabby
            lilyabbyabout 11 years
            wow thats upsetting but where lucky
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            • kiwi2014
              kiwi2014about 11 years
              We are really lucky. It's kind of nice they put that up there and make us think about it.
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              • lilyabby
                lilyabbyabout 11 years
                I feel bad
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                • sackboy
                  sackboyabout 11 years
                  We are sooooooooooooooo lucky!
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                  • nori989
                    nori989about 11 years
                    That is really cool stuff
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                    • nori989
                      nori989about 11 years
                      OMG
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