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Hi All, Last week someone posted a Stanford University post on Our World. It's had me thinking about it all this week. (70% of the world unable to read???) Could this be true??? Only 1% has a computer (I have several) Tonight I went on the www and found these sites.... The UN Cyber School Bus Resource Source at http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/menureso.htm http://www.popin.org/pop1998/1.htm The stats posted there are very sobering indeed. World life expectancy (at birth) in the 1700's was in the 20 -30 year range. By 1950 - 55 it had risen to 46.4 years In 1998 it rose to 62 years, mainly, but not entirely, due to the decrease in infant mortality. Life expectancy in some countries has been severely impacted by AIDS. In Botswana 1 in every 4 adults has Aids. Life expectancy at birth is expected to fall from 62 in 1990 to 41 in 2000 - 2005. World population will reach 6 billion this year and 9 billion by 2050. Sixty per cent of the world pop. increase is contributed by only 10 countries (21% by India & 15% by China). In 1950 Europe & N. America accounted for 28.5% of the world population. (now this has decreased to 17.5% and by 2050 decline to 11%) Currently 2 out of 5 people live in either China (1,256 million) or India (982 million). There's more......... I just had to tell somebody. My eyes are wide open and suddenly PD is a walk in the park. Murray [log in to unmask]