{"id":527,"date":"2011-03-05T07:10:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/03\/05\/110305_7billion\/"},"modified":"2011-03-05T07:10:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:10:01","slug":"110305_7billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/03\/05\/110305_7billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Characterizing the Earth&#8217;s Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>National Geographic<\/i> has analyzed certain characteristics of the Earth&#8217;s approximately 7 billion human inhabitants and <a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2011\/03\/age-of-man\/face-interactive\">offers up some interesting statistics in six categories<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Language: 13% speak Mandarin as their first language, vs. 5% Spanish and 5% English\n<\/li>\n<li>Nationality: 19% are Chinese, 17% Indian, 4% American\n<\/li>\n<li>Religion: 33% are Christian, 21% Muslim, 13% Hindu\n<\/li>\n<li>Livelihood: 40% work in services, 38% in agriculture, 22% in industry\n<\/li>\n<li>Living Environment: 51% live in urban environments\n<\/li>\n<li>Literacy: 82% are literate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They&#8217;ve also created a visual that represents the &#8220;typical&#8221; human inhabitant, a composite image of a man&#8217;s face using 7,000 human figures (each figure representing 1 million people). The face is that of a Han Chinese man:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/faceof7billion.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The magazine also compiled the characteristics of &#8220;the most typical human&#8221; (there are over 9,000,000 of them!). The results are presented in entertaining fashion in the following YouTube video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4B2xOvKFFz4?rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"390\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Original link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2011\/03\/03\/the-planets-most-typical-person\/\">Neatorama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic has analyzed certain characteristics of the Earth&#8217;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%&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/03\/05\/110305_7billion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Characterizing the Earth&#8217;s Population<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-culture","category-thinking-allowed","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}