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“NEARLY one fifth of the earth’s residents are young people between the ages of 15 and 24.” So reported the UN Chronicle. It was estimated that at the beginning of this new decade, the world’s youth population reached the one thousand million point! Today’s youth are conspicuous​—a powerful force to be reckoned with.

Psychology Today reported on a survey of 6,000 adolescents in ten different lands. It was found that in spite of huge disparities in economic status and culture, youths display attitudes and values that “are remarkably uniform.” From such surveys a global portrait of today’s youth has emerged, and what it reveals may very well surprise you.