Poverty Statistics:

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General Poverty Statistics 2011:

• The world population is about 7 billion up from 6.5 billion in 2007. Expected to reach 9 billion by 2025.
• Poverty in the European Union is one in seven.
• Poverty in the USA is one in six.
• One in five workers worldwide live in extreme poverty of less than $1.25 per person a day in 2009. The economic downturn has added an estimated 40 million workers to this category.
• For the first time in history, half the population lives in cities.
• Half the world live on less than $2.50 a day; 80% live on less than $10.
• Third world countries 75% of the population live on less than $2 a day.
• Number of children in the world 2.2 billion; half live in poverty.
• 80% live in countries where income gaps are widening.
• One in seven people worldwide are going hungry.
• 24,000 people die each day from hunger and hunger related diseases and 14,000 are children.
• One billion are illiterate; close to 3 million are illiterate in the USA.
• 270 million children don't have access to health care.
• 1.6 billion don't have electricity.
• 2.6 billion don't have access to sanitation.
• 2 billion people of which 400 million are children don't have access to clean drinking water or lack access to sufficient quantities of clean water to meet daily needs.
• 300 million in Africa risk drinking dirty water on a daily basis.
• Number of children in the world 2.2 billion; number living in poverty 1 billion.
• 640 million children live in inadequate shelter.
• Half the world has a life expectance over 70; the other half a life expectancy under 55.
• One trillion per year would eliminate global avoidable mortality.
• 60% of these deaths are children under 5.