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The world's people · shrunk to one group
If the world were your class
Shrink everyone on Earth to a group the size of your class, your team or your family. If the world were 30 people, 18 in Asia, 6 in Africa, 3 in Europe, 2 in Latin America and the Caribbean and 1 in Northern America would live there.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
A group of 30 · nine ways to split it
Your 30, nine ways
Where they live · 2025
- 18 Asia
- 6 Africa
- 3 Europe
- 2 Latin America and the Caribbean
- 1 Northern America
- 0 Oceania
Which country · 2025
- 6 India
- 5 China
- 1 United States
- 1 Indonesia
- 1 Pakistan
- 16 every other country
How old they are · 2025
- 7 children under 15
- 20 aged 15 to 64
- 3 65 or older
City, town or countryside · 2025
- 13 in a city
- 11 in a town or suburb
- 6 in the countryside
Electricity at home · 2024
2 of your 30: no electricity at home.
- 2 no electricity at home
- 28 electricity at home
The internet · 2024
9 of your 30: do not use the internet.
- 9 do not use the internet
- 21 use the internet
Enough to eat · 2023
3 of your 30: do not get enough to eat.
- 3 do not get enough to eat
- 27 get enough to eat
Born in another country · 2024
1 of your 30: born in another country.
- 1 born in another country
- 29 live in the country they were born in
Forced from home · 2025
None of your 30: fewer than one. Worldwide it is about 1 in every 76 people.
- 0 forced from home
- 30 not forced from home
How to read this: each square is one person in your group, coloured as in the list beside it. Every row adds up to your 30 exactly, so a very small share can round to nobody; the row then says how rare it is.
What this cannot tell you
- Your own class. This is the whole world shrunk to the size of your group. A real class in one town looks very different: its people mostly share a country, a language and an age.
- One moment. Each row uses the latest year its source has (2023, 2024, 2025; the year is printed beside each row), so the rows are not all the same moment.
- Exact people. A group can only hold whole people. Each row is rounded so it adds up to your group exactly, which means a small share can round to nobody; the page then says how rare it is instead.
Sources and method
Each row is read from the page that tells its story: continents, countries and ages from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024; cities, towns and countryside from the UN's World Urbanization Prospects 2025; electricity, the internet and food from the World Bank; people born abroad from the UN's migrant stock, through the World Bank; people forced from home from UNHCR. Your group is split by the largest remainder: everyone gets their whole share, and the seats left over go to the largest fractions.