There are seven billion people in the world and there are seven thousand people in this photo.
Each person in the photo is equal to one million people. That's seven billion in total!
The average age of all the people in the world is 28.
POPULATION
Twenty per cent of the world's population live in China. There are 1.3 billion people in India.
LANGUAGE
Fourteen per cent of the world's population speak Mandarin as their first language. Six per cent speak Spanish as their first language. Six per cent speak English as their first language, but English is a second language for one billion people.
RELIGION
There are many different religions in the world. For example, thirty-one per cent of the world are Christian, twenty-three per cent are Muslim and fifteen per cent are Hindu.
Forty per cent of people work in a service industry (hotels, banks, etc.), thirty-eight per cent are in agriculture and twenty-two per cent are in manufacturing and production.
CITY AND COUNTRYSIDE
Fifty-one per cent of the world's population live in cities and forty-nine per cent live in the countryside.
INTERNET AND MOBILE PHONES
3.5 billion people in the world use the internet and 5.5 billion people have a mobile phone.
