Poverty+Statistics

=Poverty statistics Group 12=


 * Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day
 * Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read and write
 * The GDP of the poorest 48 nations (1/4 of the worlds countries) is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined.
 * 20% of the population in the developed nations, consume 86% of the world’s goods.
 * 30,000 children die each day due to poverty
 * 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5
 * 1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to water, and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation.
 * In 1960, the 20% of the world’s people in the richest countries had 30 times the income of the poorest 20% — in 1997, 74 times as much.