Eats one third of the world's population with hands?

It is difficult to say exactly how many people on Earth eat mainly with their hands. The country's population is about six and a half billion people, which means that over two billion people would have to eat hands to make it full of a third of the population. Many countries in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos) also have a large part of the population that eats the hands of the country includes another hundred million people. Throughout Africa, many people rely on their hands, because their primary dishes - for example, Tanzans and Ethiopians prefer this way of eating over the use of the knife and fork.arily hands. Given the dominance of chopsticks and spoons in most Asia and knife and forks across Europe and North America, as well as in most of the developing world, it seems unlikely that a third of the population only relies on hand to eat.

Some sources suggest that only 250 million people around the world eat exclusively with their hands but relatively safetyThe calculations would indicate that the actual number is considerably higher than those when it does not reach a third of the brand.

In countries where it is to eat with your hands with your hands, it is the most common way to enjoy food is the truth almost without exception that the right hand is the only socially acceptable hand that can be used to eat. Because virtually all nations in which their hands are preferred are in the developing world, there are contemporary (or recent) taboos against manipulation of mana important things with the left hand - a hand used to clean themselves after using the toilet.