These amazing statistics will show you that despite times may be tough, you are better off than most people.

•  About 28% of children in developing coutries are underweight or stunted.
• 72 million children in developing countries of primary school age don`t attend school.
• Nearly a billion people entered the 21st Century not able to sign or write their name.
•  Less than 1% of what the world spends on weapons every year could put every child in school.
• Almost 40 million people have HIV/AIDS.
• 1 million people die from malaria every year.
• African children account for 80% of malaria deaths.
• 2 billion people lack modern santitation.
• One half of children live in poverty of some degree: 640 million without reasonable shelter, 400 million without safe water access, and 270 million without healthcare.
• About 1.1 billion people don`t have suitable access to water.
• 1 of three urban residents live in slums.
• The poorest fifth of people accounts for 1.5% of private consumption.
• 1.6 billion people live without electricity.
• The GDP of the 41 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (567 million people) is less than the wealth of the world’s 7 richest people combined.
 
• The world’s wealthiest countries (approximately 1 billion people) accounted for $36.6 trillion dollars (76%) of the world GDP.
• The world’s billionaires — just 497 people (approximately 0.000008% of the world’s population) — were worth $3.5 trillion (over 7% of world GDP).
• Low income countries (2.4 billion people or 1/3 of the world population) accounted for just $1.6 trillion of GDP (3.3%)
• Middle income countries (3 billion people) made up the rest of GDP at just over $10 trillion (20.7%).
• The world’s low income countries (2.4 billion people) account for just 2.4% of world exports
• The total wealth of the top 8.3 million people around the world “rose 8.2 percent to $30.8 trillion in 2004, giving them control of nearly a quarter of the world’s financial assets.”
• In other words, about 0.13% of the world’s population controlled 25% of the world’s financial assets in 2004.
• For every $1 in aid a developing country receives, over $25 is spent on debt repayment.
• 51 percent of the world’s 100 hundred wealthiest bodies are corporations.
• The wealthiest nation on Earth (USA) has the widest gap between rich and poor of any industrialized nation.
• The poorer the country, the more likely it is that debt repayments are being extracted directly from people who neither contracted the loans nor received any of the money.
• In 1960, the 20% of the world’s people in the richest countries had 30 times the income of the poorest 20% — in 1997, they had 74 times as much.
• “Approximately 790 million people in the developing world are still chronically undernourished, almost two-thirds of whom reside in Asia and the Pacific.”
• Progress in reducing infant mortality was also considerably slower during the period of globalization (1980-1998) than over the previous two decades.
• 12 percent of the world’s population uses 85 percent of its water, and these 12 percent do not live in the Third World.
• About 80% of humanity lives on less than 10 dollars a day.
• Unicef estimates 30000 children die each day due to poverty.

Think about it.

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 Thanks to www.globalissues.org for these astonishing facts about poverty.