General Poverty Statistics:

• The world population is about 6.5 billion.
• The United States has a population of approx. 300 million.
• Half the world - 3 billion people - live on less than $2 a day.
• Number of children in the world 2.2 billion; number living in poverty 1 billion.
• One billion are illiterate.
• 270 million children don't have access to health care.
• 1.6 billion don't have electricity.
• 1.1 billion people of which 400 million are children don't have access to clean drinking water.
• 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 of 55.