World Facts
- Nearly half the world – over three billion people – live on less than $2.50
a day.
- According to UNICEF, 26,500-30,000 children die each day due to poverty –
that’s 18 children dying every minute, a child every three seconds. - About 1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to
water, and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation. - For the 1.9 billion children from the developing world: 640 million are
without adequate shelter, 400 million do not have access to safe water, 270 - million do not have access to health services.
- About 2.2 million children die each year because they are not
immunized. - About 1.6 billion people – a quarter of humanity – live without
electricity. - Over nine million people, of which five million are children, die worldwide
each year because of hunger and malnutrition. - Over 11 million children die each year from preventable causes like malaria,
diarrhea and pneumonia. - About 20% of the population in the developed nations consume 86% of the
world’s goods. - The poorest 40% of the world’s population accounts for 5% of the global
income. The richest 20% accounts for 75% of world income. - Around 27-28% of all children in developing countries are estimated to be
underweight or stunted. - Every day, poverty kills more than 50,000 innocent people - 18 million
every year. - 8 million people die from lack of food and nutrition every year - about
24,000 deaths each day. - Every year, 5.8 million children die from hunger related-causes. Every day,
that’s 16,000 young lives lost. - Of the 2.2 billion children in the world, 600 million are victims of extreme
poverty. - Approximately 146 million children in developing countries, about 1 out of
4, are underweight. - 1.1 billion people don't have safe water and 2.6 billion lack basic
sanitation. - Still, more than 115 million children are out of school - and some 62
million of them are girls.
United State Facts
one in seven), were food insecure, the highest number ever recorded in the
United States
-- the fourth consecutive annual increase in the number of people in poverty .
This is the largest number in the 52 years for which poverty rates have been
published
medical insurance
poverty
full-time job
over 60 percent in just the past year
almost four times as many as in 2007
government anti-poverty program
tracked by the OECD
a family of four (two adults, two children) that earns less than $21,834.
two children), as calculated in An Atlas of Poverty in America.
of the population); 12.9 million were under the age of 18.
population live below the poverty line while 8.6% of Caucasians do.
neighborhoods get about half as much money per student than schools in affluent
neighborhoods.
repairs, renovations or modernization in order to reach good condition.
70% of students are below the poverty line.
High school graduation rates are 15% lower in the nation’s urban schools when
compared with those located in the suburbs.
minorities and males. In 2008, the graduation rate among African-Americans was
61.5% compared to 81% for whites.
rates lower than 50%, with the lowest rates reported in Detroit (24.9%),
Indianapolis (30.5%) and Cleveland (34.1%).
wealthy children.