Lesson 3: Getting Out of the Box
Handout 1

If the World Were 100 People

Directions: Place the following numbers in the appropriate blanks:

1 57 50 21 6 70 59 52 30
1 80 70 1 48 8 6 1 14

If the world were 100 people there would be:


____ Asians

____ Europeans

____ North and South Americans

____ Africans

____ females

____ males

____ nonwhite, ____ white

____ percent of the entire world’s wealth would belong to only ____ people and all ____ would be citizens of the United States.

____ would live in substandard housing.

____ would be unable to read.

____ would suffer from malnutrition.

____ would be near death.

____ would be near birth.

____ would have a college education.

____ would have a computer.