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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by 80% of the

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world's population. We'll just assume the other 20% are going to send us flowers [Group of people stood together and girl on her own holding flowers]

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or chocolates or something...Okay here's our question..Over 80% of the world's

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people live in what? And here are our potential answers.... [mumbling]

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.......it's not Disneyland even if it seems that way [People stood in a cue at a theme park]

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when we're stuck in line for two hours to ride Peter Pan for two minutes [People riding a rollercoaster]

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while we wait in line let's think about it, it's true that over half of the

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global population lives near water and or in cities which are great places to [People looking at the ocean and dolphins jump]

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be if you love fish or smog. Still over half is way less than 80% so we'll

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have to look elsewhere that means both A and B are out. What about E? Well Asia

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does have a pretty big population about 4.4 billion people to put that in [Map of Earth and India population]

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perspective if you put all those people in a pile they'd really hate you.. However [Lots of people piled on top of each other]

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as big of a number that is, the total world population today is about 7.1

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billion so Asia only makes up about 62 percent of the world's population which

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means E is out...The only options we have left consider is well economic

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development so let's look at some numbers yeah we know it's everyone's [Young girl excited as Santa is sat down]

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dream to look at numbers related to economic development... we're basically

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Santa. Well it turns out a whopping 80 percent of the world's population lives

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in undeveloped or developing countries that means D is our answer now if you'll [Answer D with a green tick]

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excuse us, we have to edit the naughty and nice list you try editing a list [Santa editing the naughty and nice list]

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with seven billion people on it.

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