The United States (& The World) As A 100 People

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Sep 03 2009

Posted at 8:21 am under social studies

USA Today has an article today about a book and school curriculum that portrays the United States as one hundred people. I especially like the graphic that accompanies the article that illustrates that concept.

If you’re interested, here’s a similar chart for the entire world.

I’ve posted in the past about the best site for this kind of demonstration. Miniature Earth is a slideshow that uses statistics to reduce the world to 100 inhabitants, and shows how that plays out demographically, who uses what resources, etc. They periodically update the statistics.

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Indianon 27 Sep 2009 at 8:56 am 1

45 Would speak other language. That’s other than English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi (it said Hindustani in the article) and Arab.

I would wonder how many would understand English.

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