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How to Add Impact to Numbers

Anne Miller - 30 July 2020

A friend sent me the following, which is a great example of how to take large abstract numbers and make them real for your viewers, clients, or readers. 
If you could fit the entire population of the world into a village consisting of 100 people, maintaining the proportions of all the people living on Earth, that village would consist of
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 Americans (North, Central and South)
8 Africans
6 people would possess 59% of the wealth and they would all come from the USA
80 would live in poverty
70 would be illiterate
50 would suffer from hunger and malnutrition
1 would be dying
1 would be being born
1 would own a computer
1 (yes, only one) would have a university degree
100 people are easy to envision.  Billions and millions are not.  
Your Turn
What large numbers do you tend to use that would resonate more quickly if reduced to something more easily seen? For example
$X per year or

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