Characterizing the Earth’s Population

National Geographic has analyzed certain characteristics of the Earth’s approximately 7 billion human inhabitants and offers up some interesting statistics in six categories:

• Language: 13% speak Mandarin as their first language, vs. 5% Spanish and 5% English
• Nationality: 19% are Chinese, 17% Indian, 4% American
• Religion: 33% are Christian, 21% Muslim, 13% Hindu
• Livelihood: 40% work in services, 38% in agriculture, 22% in industry
• Living Environment: 51% live in urban environments
• Literacy: 82% are literate

They’ve also created a visual that represents the “typical” human inhabitant, a composite image of a man’s face using 7,000 human figures (each figure representing 1 million people). The face is that of a Han Chinese man:

The magazine also compiled the characteristics of “the most typical human” (there are over 9,000,000 of them!). The results are presented in entertaining fashion in the following YouTube video.

Original link via Neatorama