Poverty kills
more than 50,000 people every day - 18 million poor people die every
year from extreme poverty. Source:
Global Poverty Facts
These statistics account for one
third of all human deaths. More people die as a result of extreme
poverty than of any other cause. Source:
WHO 2008
1.37
billion people live on less than $1.25 a day, and 2.56 billion live on
less than $2 a day. Moreover, 5.05 billion people (more than 80 percent
of the world's population) live on less than $10 a day. Source:
World Bank
2005
Because of the global economic
slowdown and rising food prices, FAO projects 100 million more people
will suffer from poverty and chronic hunger by the end of 2009 - an 11%
increase from 2008. Source:
World Food Program 2009
Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in fragile states
and territories,
defined as those with very weak institutions and poor policies.
These areas are home to 9 percent of the population
living in developing countries, but nearly 27 percent of the extreme
poor. These places are often sources of war, terrorism and refugee
crises. Source:
World Bank, Global Monitoring Report 2007
8 million people die from lack of
food and nutrition every year - about 24,000 deaths each day. Source:
FAO Hunger Report 2008
Every year, 5.8 million children
die from hunger related-causes. Every day, that’s 16,000 young lives
lost.
Source:
FAO Hunger Report 2008
For the first time in history, over
1.02 billion people do not have enough to eat. That’s one sixth of
humanity - more than the population of the United States, Canada and the
European Union combined. Source:
FAO Hunger Report 2008
907 million of the 1.02 billion are
from developing countries.
Source:
FAO Hunger Report 2008
The number of
undernourished people in the world increased by 75 million in 2007 and
40 million in 2008, largely due to higher food prices. Source:
FAO 2008
The GDP (Gross Domestic Product,
total of everyone's income) in the poorest 48 nations is less than the
combined wealth of the world's three richest people. Source:
Global Issues Website
20% of the population in developed
nations consumes 86% of the world's goods.
Source:
Global Issues Website
Recent studies find that prices
paid by the poor in developing countries are much higher than previous
thought. They cannot buy as much food with $1 as they can in a country
like United States. This shows that they're even poorer than reported in
earlier studies. Source:
World Bank 2009
The poorest 40% of the world’s population
accounts for 5% of the global income. The richest 20% of world’s
population accounts for three-quarters of world income. Source:
Global Issues Website
The average yearly income of the richest 20% of
people in the world is about 50 times greater than the yearly income of
the poorest 20% of people.
Source:
Human Development
Report 2005
Under nutrition contributes to 53
percent of the 9.7 million* deaths of children under five each year in
developing countries. This means that one child dies every six seconds
from malnutrition and related causes. *Note that
this statistic is different from the bullet point just above, due to
different year of study: UNICEF 2005
Every year more than 10 million children die of hunger and preventable
diseases - that’s over 30,000 per day, or one every 3 seconds. Source:
Global Poverty Facts
An estimated 250 million preschool children are
vitamin A deficient. An estimated 250,000 to 500,000 vitamin
A-deficient children become blind every year. Half of them die within
12 months of losing their sight. This is easily corrected with an inexpensive vitamin supplement.
Dirty water and poor sanitation account for the vast majority of 1.8 million child deaths each year from diarrhea
- almost 5,000 every
day - making it the second largest cause of child mortality. .
Source:
Human Development
Report 2006
Deaths from diarrhea can usually be prevented
with very inexpensive oral rehydration salts.
Source:
Child Health Research Project
Poor sanitation and drainage contribute to
malaria, which claims the lives of 1.3 million people a year, 90% of
which are children under the age of five.
Source:
Human Development
Report 2006
Girls and women are especially vulnerable to HIV
infection and to the impact of AIDS. Globally, more than half of all
people living with HIV are female.
Source:
UNICEF
Between 1990 and 2003,
the average life expectancy at birth in the world increased from
about 60 years to 68 years. However, the average life expectancy at birth in
Sub-Saharan Africa is currently only 46 years. Life expectancy has also
dropped dramatically in the countries of the former Soviet Union.
Source:
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
The 2005 Human Development
Report
Over the last decade, the average primary completion rate (completing a
full course of primary schooling) has risen from 62 percent to 72
percent. Source:
World Bank, World Development Indicators 2007
If you
subtract foreign aid given for military or strategic reasons, the figure
may be only $13.94 billion, about 13 cents per day per American. Source: Bread
for the World
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themselves and their children.
All
children should have good food, good education, and an active, happy
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