Question

By the beginning of world war 1, about how much of the world's population lived in a colony?

A) one-sixteenth
B) one-eighth
C) one-third
D) one half

Answer 1

C) one-third

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

By the beginning of the First World War, the world population was about 1.6 billion. Europe and North America controlled 84 % of the land surface. There were only 35 independent countries and almost half of them were in the Americas. Asia had the largest part of world`s population : about 60% and around 390 million of its inhabitants lived in colonies. Also the whole Africa was colonized ( about 4.5 % of the world population ). Therefore we can calculate that about 33 % of the world`s population lived in colony. Answer: C ) one-third.