If you were to shrink the

earth’s population to a
village of 100 people, it
would look something
like this:
52 would be female,
48 would be male
 70 would be Non-
Christian, 30 would be
Christian
 6 of them would be
Americans. These 6
would have over half of
the world’s wealth.
70 would be unable to
read
 50 would suffer from
mal-nutrition,
1 would be near death,
l near birth.
1 would have a college
education,
1 would own a
computer.
 Education and pay for
people 18 and older (1998):
• No high school diploma $16,124
• High school diploma $22,895
• Some college, no degree $24,804
• Associate degree $29,872
• Bachelor’s degree $40,478
• Master’s degree $51,183
• Doctoral degree $77,445
• Professional degree $95,148
Does it pay to go to school?
 If you woke up this
morning with more
health than illness, you
are more blessed than
the million who will not
survive this week.
 If you have a non-dirt
floor in the place you
live, you belong to the
upper half of the world’s
most prosperous people.
If you have a window, a
door and more than one
room, you belong to the
upper 20 percent of the
world’s richest people.
 If you have never
experienced the danger
of battle, the loneliness
of imprisonment, the
agony of torture, or the
pangs of starvation, you
are ahead of 500 million
people in the world.
If you can attend church
without fear of
harassment, arrest or
torture, or death, you
are more blessed than 3
billion people in the
world.
 If you have food in the
refrigerator, clothes on
you back, a roof over
head and a place to
sleep you are richer
than 57% of this world.
If you have money in the
bank, in your wallet, and
spare change in a dish
some place you are
among the top 8% of the
world’s most wealthy.
If your parents are still
alive and still married
you are very rare, even
here in the United
States and Canada.
 Regardless of where you
live, if you can read and
you have a pair of shoes, a
change of underwear and
can choose from two or
more foods to eat, you
belong to the top 10
percent of the world’s
most wealthy.
 We are the World

United States has the

benefit of abundance and
the responsibility to share
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