Of the 2.2 billion children in the world, 1 billion live in poverty.
1 billion people live on less than $1 a day.
Over 40% of the world – almost 1/2 - does not have access to basic sanitation.
800 million people will go to bed hungry tonight. That’s one in seven people in the world. One in seven!
One third of deaths – some 18 million people a year or 50,000 per day – are due to poverty-related causes. That’s 270 million people since 1990, the majority women and children, roughly equal to the population of the US.
(Source: Reality of Aid 2004)
Every year more than 10 million children die of hunger and preventable diseases – that’s over 30,000 per day and one every 3 seconds.
(Source: 80 Million Lives, 2003 / Bread for the World / UNICEF / World Health Organization)
One in four adults in the developing world – 872 million people – is illiterate.
(Source: Oxfam UK – Education Now Campaign)
More than 100 million children remain out of school.
(Source: UNFPA)
46% of girls in the world's poorest countries have no access to primary education.
(Source: ActionAid)
More than 1 in 4 adults cannot read or write: 2/3 are women.
(Source: ActionAid)
Universal primary education would cost $10 billion a year – that's half what Americans spend on ice cream.
(Source: ActionAid)
Young people who have completed primary education are less than half as likely to contract HIV as those missing an education. Universal primary education would prevent 700,000 cases of HIV each year – about 30% all new infections in this age group.
(Source: Oxfam)