The world can be overwhelming for children – that’s why I’ve reduced it to 100 people | Jackie McCann

My book makes daunting statistics easy to understand, opening young people up to different ways of thinking about the world

There are 8 billion people on the planet today, a number so vast as to be almost unimaginable. In a world this complex, it’s easy to shrug off the global issues and focus on our own lives, and what is in front of our faces.

Back in 2021 I was thinking about a different way to approach this. What if our global population could be shrunk down to a size that we can all get our heads around? I was drawn to the idea of the world as a “global village”, which is the sort of phrase you often hear without thinking much about, and I wondered: what if the whole world was an actual village?

Jackie McCann is a children’s writer and editor, and the author of If the World Were 100 People

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