Something to make us think ?

Another concern which may at first glance seem insignificant is that the ratio between men and women is not exactly 50/50:

qz.com/335183/heres-why-men-on-earth-outnumber-women-by-60-million

A slight percentage difference means 60 million more males than females, quite a significant number if concentrated in just a few countries which seem to have a preference for sons rather than daughters.

Many a true word spoken in jest POGS

Alea

Interesting Ales.

Fascinating. Clean water is a major concern.

www.theguardian.com/money/2015/oct/13/half-world-wealth-in-hands-population-inequality-report

A bit more info

Thank you

Jane It's possible that 1% of the population owning 50% of the wealth is not incompatible with 7% owning 84%.
Any mathematicians out there?

Thanks janea. I was obviously having a 'duh?' Moment. I thought it was 7% of the population who owned 84% of the wealth. We had a theatre company called the 7:84 company. That was a few years ago of course. Clearly the ratios have changed.

Just sent it to my GS

I thought it was interesting that 1 person was starving but 14 didn't have clean water.

Jane10
It said if there were100 people on earth, 1 person would control 50% if the money.
That just means that 1% of all the people on earth control 50% of the money.
So if there are 7 billion people on earth, it means that half the world's wealth is shared between 70 million people.
It would be interesting to know wherevthey all live, and what the distribution of wealth between those 70 million people is.

Interesting! Did I pick it up wrong but did it say that one person controls 50% of the money? If so who are they?

My biggest surprise was how Christians outnumber other religions. I didn't think anything of it - I was just surprised That "why didn't I know that" question came to mind.

Well done Gracesgran!

Eye-opening. Thank you, Gracesgran. I couldn't get the OP link to animate.

Yes, very interesting - thanks for the link Gracesgran.

Interesting - thanks for the link Gracesgran.

I couldn't get the video either Luckygirl and it an is interesting to see the population divides Here is another link

Maybe try the web address?

Nope!

I have just clicked it again and it opened and ran OK

There should be -it's a video showing various statistics as actual Lego figures out of 100.

No, not on mine there isn't.

Is there an arrow in the centre to click on to make it run?