Do you make less than $12,000 a year? Do you have a cell phone? Do you lack a bank account? Are you right-handed?
If you said yes to all four of those, that’s a good start.
But are you 28 years old? Are you a man? Are you Chinese? Specifically, are you Han Chinese? If you just said yes eight times in a row, in a world of 7 billion, you are the planet’s most typical person—not to mention, you’re probably really weirding out everyone around you.
A right-handed 28-year-old Han Chinese man who owns a cell phone, doesn’t have a bank account, and makes less than $12,000 a year. That’s the world’s most common person. Check out the video—the latest in National Geographic‘s Seven Billion series—to see what he looks like.
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That’s amazingly interesting. I wouldn’t believe it if it wasn’t from someone like Nat. Geo.
I can’t believe the typical human makes less then $12,000 a year.