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 * __ Poverty Statistics __**


 * [|www.globalissues.org] **
 * Nearly 3 billion people live on less than $2 a day.
 * Nearly a billon people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
 * According to UNICEF, 30, 000 children die ach day due to poverty. This is about 210, 000 children each week, or just under 11 million children under five years of age each year.
 * 1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to water, and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty#Effects_of_poverty **
 * One third of deaths - some 18 million people a year or 50,000 per day - are due to poverty-related causes: in total 270 million people, most of them women and children, have died as a result of poverty since 1990.
 * Every year nearly 11 million children living in poverty die before their fifth birthday.
 * 800 million people go to bed hungry every night.
 * An estimated 218 million children aged 5 to 17 are in child labor worldwide, excluding child domestic labor.
 * http://www.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam_in_action/issues/health.html **
 * Every minute, a woman with no medical care dies in pregnancy or childbirth
 * Every hour, 300 people die of an AIDS-related illness
 * Every day, 4,000 children die of diarrhoea caused by dirty water
 * Millions of people in poor countries get low-quality health care, or are forced to go without it altogether. Fees are too high, hospitals and clinics are too few, and lack of medical staff means people struggle to get treated.

**These are just a few statistics about the horrors of poverty.**
