CONTENTS Human World Human Origins Population Growth A Long Life Diseases and Doctors Living in Cities Types of Government Armed Forces 4 Getting Heavy 6 Global Languages 8 Vacation Time 10 Education and Literacy 12 Religion 14 Mapping the World 16 Glossary and Websites 18 Index 20 22 24 26 28 30 31 32 The world in 100 people If you reduced the world's population to just 100 people an average person would live in a town in Asia speak Chinese be able to read and write be between 15 and 64 years old and would not be undernourished or overweight WEIGHT ADULTS OVER 18 O Overweight and obese 39 O Underweight or OK 50 Undernourished 11 AGE LITERACY 26 0 14 years old a 66 15 64 years old a s 65 and older a Can read and write 83 O Can't read and write 17 FIRST LANGUAGE URBANIZATION Live in towns 54 Live In the country 48 Chinese 12 Hindl 3 Spanish 5 Bengall 3 English 5 O Portuguese 3 Arable 3 Other 66 POPULATION DISTRIBUTION Asla 60 Europe 110 North America B o Afrloa 15 a Latin America and Caribbean 9
Human WORLD EUROPE NORT AMERICA ASIA The world is divided into large landmasses called continents The 7 billion people who live on the planet are not scattered evenly across these continents ore than 60 percent of these people live in just one continent Asia AFRICA SOUTH AMERICA AUSTRALIA OCEANI NORTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA Number of countries Number of countries OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 16 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOO 26 Largest country BRAZIL 3 3 million sq miles 8 5 million sq km Largest country CANADA 3 9 million sq miles 10 million sq km Largest population USA 318 million Largest city SAO PAULO BRAZIL 19 9 million Largest population BRAZIL 202 7 million An At Largest city Ed MEXICO CITY HE A MEXICO 20 5 million Total area 9 5 million sq miles 24 7 million sq km Total area 6 9 million sq miles 17 8 million sq km Total population 556 million Total population 401 million
EUROPE ASIA Number of countries Number of countries OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO oooooooooooooooooooo OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 0 0 0 0 0 0 47 52 Largest population RUSSIA European region 110 m on Largest country RUSSIA European region 1 5 m on sq mi les 4 m ion sq km Largest population CHINA 1 4 billion Largest country RUSSIA Asia 5 1 ion sq miles 13 1 million sq km A Largest city Moscow RUSSIA 11 6 mi on Rod Largest city TOKYo JAPAN 37 2 m ion Total area Total area 39 million sq miles 10 2 million sq km Total population 740 million 17 2 million sq miles 44 6 million sq km Total population 4 3 billion AFRICA AUSTRALIA OCEANIA Number of countries Number of countries 19 Oooooooooooooooooooo OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 57 Largest country ALGERIA 919 595 sq miles 2 4 mi ion sq km Largest population AUSTRALIA 22 5 mi ion Largest country AUSTRALIA 3 million sq miles 77 7 mi ion sq km At Largest city A SYDNEY HE AUSTRALIA 4 5 mi to Largest city LAGOs NIGERIA 11 2 m Largest population NIGERIA L77 2 m ion Total area Total area 11 7 million sq miles 30 2 sq million km Total population 1 1 billion 3 3 million sq miles 8 5 million sq km Total population 38 million
