Poverty and Environmental Facts

Did You Know...

20,000 people die each day from waterborn deseases or lack of.
30,000 people die everyday from starvation
150 million street children world wide
842 million people across the world are hungry
798 million people in the developing world are undernourished
25 million people have died from HIV aids
94% of the worlds forest are unprotected
1.3% of forest is lost every year in south america

Economics

Half the world -- nearly three billion people -- live on less than  2 dollars a day.

The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world's 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 worlds goods.

The developing world now spends $13 on debt repayment for every $1 it receives in grants.

7 Million children die each year as a result of the debt crisis.

Today, across the world, 1.3 billion people live on less than one dollar a day; 3 billion live on under two dollars a day; 1.3 billion have no access to clean water; 3 billion have no access to sanitation; 2 billion have no access to electricity.

Resources

12 percent of the world's population uses 85 percent of its water, and these 12 percent do not live in the Third World.

To satisfy all the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only $13 billion, hardly as much as the people of the United States and the European Union spend each year on perfume.

42 million people are living with HIV/AIDS in the world – 92.8 percent of them in developing countries. 3 million are children under the age of 15. 2.9 million of those children live in the developing world.

Each gallon of gas used by a car contributes almost 20 pounds of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere