If the World were made up of 100 People.

Why 100?

“The World as 100 People. This idea has been around since 1990. This is my attempt at presenting the information. Go here and click on the image again for a larger view.”

Problems with stats above:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage

“The number of users who “don’t use” the internet is 61%. The number of people who don’t have access to the internet I’m sure is even lower than that. When the very first thing I fact-check comes up significantly off, I’m not even going to bother with any of the others.”

Original Source here. 

References:

Gender: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.htmlhttp://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

Age: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html

Geography: http://esa.un.org/wpp/unpp/panel_population.htm http://www.geohive.com/earth/world.aspxhttp://worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/contnent.htm

Religion: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html

First Language: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.htmlhttp://www.theglobaleducationproject.org/earth/human-conditions.php#2

Overall Literacy and Education: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.htmlhttp://www.uis.unesco.org/FactSheets/Documents/FS16-2011-Literacy-EN.pdfhttp://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/Pages/tertiary-education.aspxhttp://www.uis.unesco.org/Library/Documents/Tech1-eng.pdf http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/5058http://data.worldbank.org/ http://www.barrolee.com/http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/barro/files/p_jwha.pdf http://ged.eads.usaidallnet.gov/query/do?_program=/eads/ged/countryUNE

Literacy by Gender: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html

Urban/Rural: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html

Drinking Water: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html

Food: http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/ http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/index.htmlhttp://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20facts%202002.htm

Infectious Disease: http://www.who.int/gho/tb/epidemic/cases_deaths/en/index.htmlhttp://www.who.int/hiv/data/en/index.html

Poverty: http://www.prb.org/pdf11/2011population-data-sheet_eng.pdfhttp://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2005/kotharibrf050511.doc.htmhttp://www.adb.org/documents/reports/health_wealth/hwap.pdf http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats http://econ.worldbank.org

Electricity: http://www.iea.org/country/maps.asp http://www.theglobaleducationproject.org/earth/human-conditions.php#2

Technology: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/ http://www.4gamericas.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page&pageid=956 http://www.c-i-a.com/pr0109.htm

Sanitation: http://www.wssinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/resources/JMP-report-2012-en.pdf