An Overview of the World's Current State

Q1. In all low-income countries across the world today, how many girls finish primary school?

There has been lots of efforts to get girls to finish primary school, e.g. providing sanitary towels. Surely, they must be at \( \ge 40% \) completion rates.

🔲  A: 20 percent

❌  B: 40 percent

✅  C: 60 percent

Q10. Worldwide, 30-year-old men have spent 10 years in school, on average. How many years have women of the same age spent in school?

✅  A: 9 years

❌  B: 6 years

🔲  C: 3 years

Q2. Where does the majority of the world population live?

With all the talk about the 1% owning an absurd share of the wealth, my money is on majority of the world population being low-income.

❌  A: Low-income countries

✅  B: Middle-income countries

Q3. In the last 20 years, the proportion of the world population living in extreme poverty has…

We’ve made too many scientific advancements for us to be worse off. Sure, inequality is growing - but [most] people are trending up.

🔲  A: almost doubled

🔲  B: remained more or less the same

✅  C: almost halved

Q4. What is the life expectancy of the world today?

With majority of the population in low-income countries, the average must skew lower.

🔲  A: 50 years

❌  B: 60 years

✅  C: 70 years

Q5. There are 2 billion children in the world today, aged 0 to 15 years old. How many children will there be in the year 2100, according to the United Nations?

This is mostly a wild ass guess. Africa is projected as a growing market. Growing market means more babies. Same goes for Asia. I’m not too sure about this one though.

❌  A: 4 billion

🔲  B: 3 billion

✅  C: 2 billion

Q6. The UN predicts that by 2100 the world population will have increased by another 4 billion people. What is the main reason?

❌  A: There will be more children (age below 15)

✅  B: There will be more adults (age 15 to 74)

🔲  C: There will be more very old people (age 75 and older)

Q8. There are roughly 7 billion people in the world today. Which map shows best where they live? (Each figure represents 1 billion people.)

China and India have a billion+ people each. I think Africa has more people than Europe.

✅  A

❌  B

🔲  C

Q7. How did the number of deaths per year from natural disasters change over the last hundred years?

We have relief efforts and stuff. We shouldn’t be worse off…

🔲  A: More than doubled

🔲  B: Remained about the same

✅  C: Decreased to less than half

Q9. How many of the world’s 1-year-old children today have been vaccinated against some disease?

🔲  A: 20 percent

❌  B: 50 percent

✅  C: 80 percent

Q12. How many people in the world have some access to electricity?

In Kenya, I’d think \( \approx 50\% \) of people have electricity. But Kenya being sort of middle-income, let’s be pessimistic here.

❌  A: 20 percent

🔲  B: 50 percent

✅  C: 80 percent

Q11. In 1996, tigers, giant pandas, and black rhinos were all listed as endangered. How many of these three species are more critically endangered today?

If memes have taught me anything, pandas are dying out. I’d assume the same for rhinos because of their horns. Tigers, not so much - Princeton would have mentioned it at some point.

❌  A: Two of them

🔲  B: One of them

✅  C: None of them

Q13. Global climate experts believe that, over the next 100 years, the average temperature will…

✅  A: get warmer

🔲  B: remain the same

🔲  C: get colder