Poverty+and+Wealth

Poverty is the lack of basic human needs. some of the basic human needs are food, water, shelter, clothing, health care and education.
 * __What is poverty?__**

Why is poverty such a problem?

Definitions of poverty

__**Statistics showing the scale of the problem.**__

Nearly 2 billion people today live on 56p a day or less. 2.7 billion try to live on £1.02 a day. Over 800 million people sleep feeling hungry. Over 300 million of the 800 million are children.Over 2.5 million people (thats nearly 50% of the world population) dont have a basic sanitation. Nearly a billion people can read or write their own name. Every year 11 million children die before thier 5th birthday. A person dies every 3.6 due to starviation. 1 in 3 child are without adeqate shelter. 1 in 5 children have no acess to safe water. 1 in 7 have no acces to health services. 2.2 million children die each year because they did not get immunized.
 * __In the developing world__**