• 09 Nov 09
  

  Eric Fink

  This part of the globalissues.org web site presents some of the hard hitting facts and statistics on poverty

  facts poverty world

• 29 Oct 09
  

  Madeline Stephens

  poverty

  • Global Priority$U.S. BillionsBasic education for all6Water and sanitation for all9Reproductive health for all women12Basic health and nutrition13
• 26 Oct 09
  

  mary romoe

  poverty

• 17 Oct 09
  

  Katherine Taylor

  general facts and statistics about poverty - global priorities

  health stats world poverty global_priorities

  • Ice cream in Europe11Perfumes in Europe and the United States12Pet foods in Europe and the United States17Business entertainment in Japan35Cigarettes in Europe50Alcoholic drinks in Europe105Narcotics drugs in the world400Military spending in the world780
  • Reproductive health for all women12
• 16 Oct 09
  

  James Hooper

  Good source OYW Stats

  • Poverty Facts and Stats

    Author and Page information
• 05 Oct 09
  

  patricio fernando gonzalez diaz

  poverty line

• 04 Sep 09
  

  michael Scherer
• 

  Lily Simeon
  • So
    me 1.1 billion people in developing countries have
    inadequate access to water,
  • At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day
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  • • According to UNICEF, 25,000 children die each day due to poverty
    • Around 27-28 percent of all children in developing countries are estimated to be
      underweight or stunted.
    • the Millennium Development Goals target of halving the proportion of underweight
      children will be missed by 30 million ch
    • Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign
      their names
    • Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed
      to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen
    • An estimated 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, with 3 million deaths
      in 2004. Every year there are 350–500 million cases of malaria, with 1 million
      fatalities: Africa accounts for 90 percent of malarial deaths and African
      children account for over 80 percent of malaria victims worldwide
    • me 1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to water,
      and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation
    • 1.8 billion people who have access to a water source within 1 kilometre, but not
      in their house or yard, consume around 20 litres per day. In the United Kingdom
      the average person uses more than 50 litres of water a day flushing toilets
      (where average daily water usage is about 150 liters a day.
    • Some 1.8 million child deaths each year as a result of diarrhoea
    • Number in poverty
      

      1 billion (every second child)
    • Shelter, safe water and health
      
      
      
      For the 1.9 billion children from the developing world, there are:
      
      
      • 640 million without adequate shelter (1 in 3)
        
      • 400 million with no access to safe water (1 in 5)
        
      • 270 million with no access to health services (1 in 7)
    • Children out of education worldwide
      

      121 million
    • • 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (same as children
        population in France, Germany, Greece and Italy)
        
      • 1.4 million die each year from lack of access to safe drinking water and
        adequate sanitation
    • • 2.2 million children die each year because they are not immunized
        
      • 15 million children orphaned due to HIV/AIDS (similar to the total children
        population in Germany or United Kingdom)
    • Urban slum growth is outpacing urban growth by a wide margin
    • . In 2005, one out of three urban dwellers (approximately 1 billion people) was
      living in slum conditions.^{Source
      13}
    • In developing countries some 2.5 billion people are forced to rely on biomass—
    • over 80 percent of the population depends on traditional biomass for cooking, as
      do over half of the populations of India and China.^{Source 14}
    • door air pollution resulting from the use of solid fuels [by poorer segments of
      society] is a major killer. It claims the lives of 1.5 million people each year,
      more than half of them below the age of five: that is 4000 deaths a day.

    • For every $1 in aid a developing country receives,
      over $25 is spent on debt repayment.^{Source
      22}

    • The wealthiest nation on Earth has the widest gap
      between rich and poor of any industrialized nation.^{Source 24}

    • 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.^{Source 26}

    • Approximately 790 million people in the developing world are still chronically
      undernourished, almost two-thirds of whom reside in Asia and the Pacific.”^{Source 28}

    • A mere 12 percent of the world’s population uses 85
      percent of its water, and these 12 percent do not live in the Third World.^{Source 30}

    • obal Priority

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        Lily Simeon on 2009-09-04

        These Global Priorities make me very sad and realize how selfish humans can be.
• 03 Aug 09
  

  Jason K

  Saha

  africa

• 02 Jun 09
  

  Nigel Coutts

  Easy access to statistical data

  poverty stats

• 25 Mar 09
  

  Jenny B.

  poverty hunger africa

• 04 Mar 09
  

  Leigh Newton

  poverty stats statistics

• 13 Dec 08
  

  natelaney1
  • about 0.13% of the world’s population controlled 25% of the world’s financial assets
  • For every $1 in aid a developing country receives, over $25 is spent on debt repayment.^{Source 22}
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  • • 51 percent of the world’s 100 hundred wealthiest bodies are corporations.^Source
    • The wealthiest nation on Earth has the widest gap between rich and poor of any industrialized nation
    • A mere 12 percent of the world’s population uses 85 percent of its water, and these 12 percent do not live in the Third World

    • The new poverty line of $1.25 a day was recently announced by the World Bank (in 2008). For many years before that it had been $1 a day. But the $1 a day used then would be $1.45 a day now if just inflation was accounted for.

      The new figures from the World Bank therefore confirm concerns that poverty has not been reduced by as much as was hoped

    • • China accounts for nearly all the world’s reduction in poverty
    • $2.50 represents a typical poverty level amongst many more developing countries.
• 19 Nov 08
  

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  poverty

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  Jon FA
  • At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day.
• 14 Nov 08
  

  Erica FA
• 26 Aug 08
  

  Todd Way

  poverty stats world health

  • At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day.
  • More than 80 percent of the world’s population lives in countries where income differentials are widening.
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  • • According to UNICEF, 26,500-30,000 children die each day due to poverty.
    • Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.
    • The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the 41 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (567 million people) is less than the wealth of the world’s 7 richest people combined.
    • For every $1 in aid a developing country receives, over $25 is spent on debt repayment.^Source
    • 51 percent of the world’s 100 hundred wealthiest bodies are corporations.

    • For economic growth and almost all of the other indicators, the last 20 years [of the current form of globalization, from 1980 - 2000] have shown a very clear decline in progress as compared with the previous two decades [1960 - 1980]. For each indicator, countries were divided into five roughly equal groups, according to what level the countries had achieved by the start of the period (1960 or 1980). Among the findings:

      • Growth: The fall in economic growth rates was most pronounced and across the board for all groups or countries.
      • Life Expectancy: Progress in life expectancy was also reduced for 4 out of the 5 groups of countries, with the exception of the highest group (life expectancy 69-76 years).
      • Infant and Child Mortality: Progress in reducing infant mortality was also considerably slower during the period of globalization (1980-1998) than over the previous two decades.
      • Education and literacy: Progress in education also slowed during the period of globalization.^Source

    • Consider the global priorities in spending in 1998

      Global Priority	$U.S. Billions
      Cosmetics in the United States	8
      Ice cream in Europe	11
      Perfumes in Europe and the United States	12
      Pet foods in Europe and the United States	17
      Business entertainment in Japan	35
      Cigarettes in Europe	50
      Alcoholic drinks in Europe	105
      Narcotics drugs in the world	400
      Military spending in the world	780

      And compare that to what was estimated as additional costs to achieve universal access to basic social services in all developing countries:

      Global Priority	$U.S. Billions
      Basic education for all	6
      Water and sanitation for all	9
      Reproductive health for all women	12
      Basic health and nutrition	13

    • However, it appears that much of the poverty reduction in the last couple of decades almost exclusively comes from China:

      • China’s poverty rate fell from 85% to 15.9%, or by over 600 million people
      • China accounts for nearly all the world’s reduction in poverty
      • Excluding China, poverty fell only by around 10%

      

Public Stiky Notes

• 
  Lily Simeon on 2009-09-04
  These Global Priorities make me very sad and realize how selfish humans can be.

Page Comments

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  natelaney1 on 2008-12-13
  Ironic that this is precisely what marks a "controlling interest" in corporate-speak.

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