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Global poverty is such an enormous problem, effecting people mostly in LEDCs who do not have access to basic human needs. Here are some statistics to portray the exactly how mush the world is affected by poverty. Nearly 3 billion people live on less than $2 a day, that is half the world. The GDP of the poorest 48 nations is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined. Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons could have put every child into a school by the year 2000. 20% of the population in the developed nations, consume 86% of the world’s goods. A few hundred millionaires own as much wealth as the world’s poorest 2.5 billion people. Around the world, 27–30,000 children die every day, which is equivalent to one child dying every second. Some 1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to water, and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation. There are 2.2 billion children in the worls and 1 billion of them are affected by poverty.