7 Billion: Are You Typical?

7 Billion: Are You Typical? -- National Geographic Magazine

Investigate some of the numbers that characterize our human population, and take a look at the face of the most "typical" person on the planet.

The first video in the series received over one million views on YouTube and this one’s already garnered over 700,000 views in 48-hours.

The statistics on the “typical” human being are amazing:

Right-handed

Makes less than $12,000 per year

Owns a cell phone

Male

Median age: 28

Chinese

So, the typical human being is a 28-year-old Chinese male. There are over 9,000,000 of them on planet Earth.

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