If 100 people lived on Earth.

This is amazing. Thank you.

Globalised statistics such as these are amusing at best and most likely dangerous as they prettily present a problem so great as to emasculate the belief that any action can create social and political change.

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If 100 people represented all the worlds prisoners 49 of them would be in prison in the USA.

If the top 5 richest persons spent $1 million every day each it would take them 476 years to spend.

@DrPAWHughes How many have basic human rights?

Informative.

These grand but bland statistics have little practical benefit other than highlighting that a knowledge of history is of far more importance than collected data when developing public / political policies.

Fascinating. Thank you. Are you sure so many people can read?