The World’s Most Average Person — Transcript

Full transcript

1. 0:00Who's the world's most [music] average
2. 0:01person? It's a close call, but as there
3. 0:03are slightly more men than women, the
4. 0:05[music] average person is male. He used
5. 0:07to be from China, but since its
6. 0:09population was overtaken [music] in
7. 0:102023, he's now from India, though he
8. 0:13still speaks Mandarin Chinese, and he
9. 0:16just turned 31. But what's he actually
10. 0:18like? He's 165 cm tall and weighs 62 kg
11. 0:23with black hair and brown eyes. If we
12. 0:25put all the food consumed by humans
13. 0:27[music] in one big buffet and divided it
14. 0:29evenly, he gets around 3,000 calories a
15. 0:31day [music] with around 40% coming from
16. 0:34grains like rice and almost 8% from
17. 0:36sugar, or around 26 [music] sugar cubes.
18. 0:39He earns a little over $22 a day, or
19. 0:42around $660 [music]
20. 0:44a month. He owns a smartphone, like 60%
21. 0:47of humanity, but no car, as only one in
22. 0:50five people do. Chances are you both
23. 0:52have a lot in common, but the average
24. 0:54person [music] is constantly changing.
25. 0:56By 2050, due to longer life expectancies
26. 0:59and declining birth rates, they'll be
27. 1:00[music] 6 years older. By 2100, they'll
28. 1:03be 42, and with numbers of women set to
29. 1:06narrowly overtake men, they'll probably
30. 1:08be a woman at the [music] end of the
31. 1:09century.