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If the World Were a Village

A Book about the World’s People

Written by David J. Smith

Languages

1. Use the hundredths chart to fill in the percentages of each world language. (Use legend)

2. Express each world language as a percent, a decimal, and a fraction (in lowest terms)

Percent Decimal fractionChineseEnglishHindiSpanishArabicBengaliPortugueseRussianOther Languages

3. If the amount of people who speak Spanish were to increase by 300%, how many people in the village would speak Spanish?

In the global village there are almost 6000 Languages, but more than half the people speak these 8 languages:

22 speak a Chinese dialect

9 speak English

8 speak Hindi

7 speak Spanish

4 speak Arabic

4 speak Bengali

3 speak Portuguese

3 speak Russian

___ speak other Languages

If you could say hello in these 8 Languages you could greet well over half the people in the village.

Nationalities

1. Use the hundredths chart to fill in the percentages of each world nationality. (Use legend)

2. Express each world language as a percent, a decimal, and a fraction (in lowest terms)

Percent Decimal fractionAsiaAfricaEuropeSouth America and Central AmericaCanada and USAOceania

3. The table below shows the portions of the world population that live in four countries. Order the countries by population from least to greatest.

Country Brazil India Russia United States

Portion of World Population

2.8% 7/40 1/50 0.044

Who are the people of the global village? Where to they come from? Of the 100 people in the global village:

61 are from Asia

13 are from Africa

12 are from Europe

8 are from South America, Central America and the Caribbean.

5 are from Canada and the United States

1 is from Oceania (New Zealand, Australia)

Ages

1. Label the graph by age categories. Draw a pictograph to represent the quantities.(Use legend)

2. Express each world language as a percent, a decimal, and a fraction (in lowest terms)

Percent Decimal fractionUnder 5Between 3-9Between 10 and 19Between 20 and 29Between 30 and 39Between 40 and 49Between 50 and 59Between 60 and 60Between 70 and 79Over 79

3. Write a ratio that represents the number of people in the village that are between the ages of 30-39 and 50-59. Simplify the ratio if possible.

There are many children in the village. One-fifth of the village are nine years age or under. More than half are under 30. Here are the ages of the villagers:

10 are children under the age of 5

10 are children between 3 and 9

19 are between 10 and 19

16 are between 20 and 29

15 are between 30 and 39

11 are between 40 and 49

9 are between 50 and 59

6 are between 60 and 69

3 are between 70 and 79

1 is over 79

Religions

1. Use the hundredths chart to fill in the percentages of each world Religion. (Use legend)

2. Express each world language as a percent, a decimal, and a fraction (in lowest terms)

Percent Decimal fractionChristiansMuslimsHindusShamanism, animism, other folk religionsBuddhistsOther global religionsJewishNon-religious

3. Determine the number of people in your village who practice Buddhism? __________

What is 2% of this number? ___________

If the number of people in your village who practice Buddhism increased by 2%, how many people in the village would be Buddhist? ____________

What Religions do the people of the village follow? In the village of 100 people:

32 are Christians

19 are Muslims

13 are Hindus

12 practice shamanism, animism and other folk religions

6 are Buddhists

2 belong to other global religions

1 is Jewish

15 are non-religious

Food

1. Express each world language as a percent, a decimal, and a fraction (in lowest terms)

Percent Decimal fractionAlways hungrySometimes HungryNever Hungry

2. Using the information from the table, shade in the appropriate percentages on the pie graph. (Use a legend)

3. If the amount of people who were always hungry were to decrease by 22%, how many people in the village would always be hungry?

There is no shortage of food in the global village. If all the food were divided equally, everyone would have enough to eat. But the food isn’t divided equally. So although there is enough food to feed the villagers, not everyone is well fed:

60 people are always hungry and 26 of them are severely undernourished.

16 other people go to bed hungry at night at least some of the time.

24 people always have enough to eat.

Air and Water

1. Express each world language as a percent, a decimal, and a fraction (in lowest terms)

Percent Decimal fractionHave waterDo not have water

Breath clean airBreathe unhealthy air

2. Use the circle to graph the percentages for air quality and then use the hundredths charts to fill in the number of people of have access to safe water. (Use legend for both graphs)

3. If the amount of people who breathe unhealthy air were to decrease by 4%, how many people in the village would breathe unhealthy air?

In most of the village the air is healthy and the water is clean. Fresh air and drinkable water are necessities. How many people in the village have clean air and a nearby source of clean water?

Water75 have access to safe water either in their homes or within a short distance.

25 do not and must spend a large part of each day simply getting water.

Air

68 breathe clean air

32 breathe air that is unhealthy because of pollution

Literacy

1. Use the hundredths charts to fill in the percentages of literacy in the village. (Use legend).

2. Express each world language as a percent, a decimal, and a fraction (in lowest terms)

Percent Decimal fractionCan read a little bitCannot read at allNot old enough to read

3. If the amount of people in the village who attend school were to increase by 200%, how many people in the village would attend school?

Not everyone in the village is encouraged to learn to read, write and think.

Of the 88 people old enough to read:

71 can read at least a little bit

17 cannot read at all

12 not old enough to read

More males are taught to read than females.

Money and Possessions

1. Express each world language as a percent, a decimal, and a fraction (in lowest terms)

Percent Decimal fractionRichest villagersPoorest villagersModerate villagers

2. Use the dollar bill to shade in the percentages of each world money and possession statistics. (Use legend)

3. What percent of the village holds the most wealth? How does this compare to the percent of poor villagers?

If all the money in the village were divided equally, each person would have about $6200 per year. But in the global village money isn’t divided equally. How much money do the people in the global village have?

20 of the richest villagers have more than $9000 a year.

20 of the poorest villagers live on less than $1 a day.

60 of the remaining villagers have something in between.

The average cost of food, shelter and other necessities in the village is about $4000-$5000 per year. Many people do not have enough money to meet these basic needs.

Electricity

Use the area to choose how to represent the data.

Make sure to include a legend.

2. Express each world language as a percent, a decimal, and a fraction (in lowest terms)

Percent Decimal fractionHave electricityDo not have electricity

3..What fraction of the people in the village do not have electricity? (simplify) ____________________

What is the total population of people in the world who do not have electricity (hint: total population

7.6 billion).

In many homes, electric light spills into the streets. In other, the dark is kept away with candles, oil lamps, and lanterns.

How many of the people in the village have electricity?

75 have electricity

25 do not

Making Connections

Earth is a crowded place, and it’s getting more crowded all the time. As for January 2018 the worlds population was 7 billion, 6 million- that’s 7,600 000,000 people. Numbers are big and hard to understand, but what if we imagined the world as a village of just 100 people? In our imaginary village, each person would represent 76 million people (76,000,000) from the real world.

One hundred people would fit nicely into a small village. By learning about the villagers- who they are and how they live- perhaps we can find out more about our neighbours in the real world and the problems our planet may face in the future.

After analyzing various statistics from the global village, including: Languages, Nationalities, Age, religions, food, air and water, school and literacy, money and possessions and electricity, we have gained a greater understanding of the current world population. Use your assigned category to answer the following questions:

1. Looking at your data, draw 3 conclusions based on what the statistics tell us about the current world population. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Think of a few ways we can use data to make a positive change for the future (think about water use, electricity, education ect.)? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. What does this data tell us about life in Canada compared to life in Asia? How does using percentages, decimals and fractions help us explain the population around the world?

Different Types of GraphsPie chart

Bar Graph

Pictograph

100s Chart