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February 26, 2008 - 7:02pm — sweetbliss27

Facts of Poverty

Facts of poverty: (The statistics are shocking)

1) Nearly half of the world’s population live on less than $2 a day. Yet the average subsidy each cow receives in the whole of the UK is about $1.
2) 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDs today, of these 40 million people, 93% live in the developing world.
3) Last year, 2000 infants became HIV positive during pregnancy, birth or through breastfeeding.
4) Last year, the world’s largest foreign development donor was America, who donated $19 billion which made up 0.16% of their Gross National Income (GNI). Unfortunately, America is still a long way from reaching its promised 0.7%. Also, of this $19 billion, $2.9 billion went towards the re-development of Iraq.
Australia is not doing much better, last year we donated 0.25% of our GNI towards foreign development.
5) Over 130 million children of primary school age in developing countries are growing up without access to basic education.
6) Almost one billion people entered the 21st Century unable to read a book or sign their name, and this number is growing.
7) 800 million people in the developing world are chronically undernourished.
8) 1.2 billion people live without access to clean drinking water.
9) 12% of the World’s population use 85% of its water (these 12% do not live in the third world).
10) 5,000 children die each day as a result of poor sanitation and water. Though for some reason...
Europe spends more money on ice cream that the entire globe spends on sanitation and water.
11) The world’s military expenditure is eighty-five times larger than what is spent globally on sanitation and water.
What would you do to help those 800 million people who are chronically undernourished?

If anyone else have a interesting fact about poverty that they would like to share, feel free to reply to this post.

February 5, 2008 - 1:07pm — YV_Jen

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