In a world populated a 7 billion people,
which person is the most typical?
The world’s most typical person is
… right handed,
… serving fewer than 64,000 kr. Per year.
… own a mobile phone
… but have no bank account.
Less than 25% of us do.
How does he look?
The world’s most typical person is a man
There are more men than women
… but only just
World population aged 28
The largest ethnic group is he Chinese
world
most typical person is
28-year-old he Chinese man.
There are over 9,000,000 of them
Scientists have used
photos of 190,000 of them
… to create a composite image
And here is the most typical peron
But he remains not typical forever
In 2030 comes the person from India
And typically always relatively
The typical Dutch man is 180 cm tall
In Peru, he is 164 cm
In Japan, living the typical woman until she is 86 years old.
In Afghanistan, she lives in 45 years
The typical American consumes 380 liters of water
water in the home every day
In parts of Ethiopia, it is less than 10 liters per day
And some women burger 8 hours a day to fetch it.
Typical people must make choices
But not everyone has the same opportunities
The decisions we make makes a big difference
When you multiply them by 7 billion
7 billion on the planet. What does it mean for us?
A series of articles throughout 2011 in National Geographic
which person is the most typical?
The world’s most typical person is
… right handed,
… serving fewer than 64,000 kr. Per year.
… own a mobile phone
… but have no bank account.
Less than 25% of us do.
How does he look?
The world’s most typical person is a man
There are more men than women
… but only just
World population aged 28
The largest ethnic group is he Chinese
world
most typical person is
28-year-old he Chinese man.
There are over 9,000,000 of them
Scientists have used
photos of 190,000 of them
… to create a composite image
And here is the most typical peron
But he remains not typical forever
In 2030 comes the person from India
And typically always relatively
The typical Dutch man is 180 cm tall
In Peru, he is 164 cm
In Japan, living the typical woman until she is 86 years old.
In Afghanistan, she lives in 45 years
The typical American consumes 380 liters of water
water in the home every day
In parts of Ethiopia, it is less than 10 liters per day
And some women burger 8 hours a day to fetch it.
Typical people must make choices
But not everyone has the same opportunities
The decisions we make makes a big difference
When you multiply them by 7 billion
7 billion on the planet. What does it mean for us?
A series of articles throughout 2011 in National Geographic
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