你并不是大多数 You Are Not The Majority

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It's easy to feel that the way we experience life is generally the same for others, but did you realize that the majority of people in this world that don't actually have the internet? About 3.5 billion peopleor only 40% of the world has an internet connection today, meaning, this digital reality we experience is actually done so by a minority of people in the world!

Or how about the fact that the majority of people in the world live in this circle? In fact, ​ it contains 22 of the world's 37 megacities which each have at least 10 million people.

Only two cities in America fall into this category: New York and Los Angeles. On that note, the majority of the world actually live in"Developing Countries."

In fact, modern language is now advocating to change terms like"Third World Country" to"Majority World Country" to more accurately represent that these countries are, well, the majority of humankind! Even if the G8 countries make decisions that affect the majority of people on this planet.

To that point around 70%-80% percent of people on this planet make less than$ 10 US dollars a day! While even in a wealthy country like America, over 50% percent of people make less than$ 30,000 dollars a year!

The good news, is that global poverty has fallen by half over the last decade. But we still have a global environment where more people have cellphones than toilets!

And when they're talking on those phone, the vast majority aren't speaking English as a first language. The majority also aren't Christian.

As of November 2016, most people are male, with roughly 55 million less females on the planet! And of our population, the majority are under the age of 30!

In America, once you turn 37, you're officially older than half the country! And the most common age for a person to be worldwide? 0 years old, followed by 1-year-old​, 2 years old, 3,4, and then. . .26 years old?

The majority of adults in the world weigh around 61 kilograms or 135 pounds. Whereas the vast majority of people in North America are overweight!

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