Facts about Poverty

1) Almost half the world — over 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day.
2) Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names
3) 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 did not happen.
4) 1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, and 270 million have no access to health services.
5) Around 27-28% of all children in developing countries are estimated to be underweight or stunted.
6) 880 million people lack access to basic health care, and 1.3 billion lack access to safe drinking water. 17 million people die each year from curable diseases, including diarrhea, malaria and tuberculosis. 5 million of these people die due to water contamination.
7) Every 3.6 seconds another person dies of starvation and the large majority is children under the age of 5.
8) Between 1970 and 2002, the poorest African countries received $294 billion in loans, paid back $298 billion in interest and principal, but still owed more than $200 billion.
9) A few hundred millionaires now own as much wealth as the world's poorest 2,500,000,000 people.
10) The poorest 40% of the world’s population accounts for 5% of the global income. The richest 20% accounts for three-quarters of world income.
11) About 1.6 billion people – a quarter of humanity – live without electricity.
12) Organizations fighting child poverty estimated that at least 100 million city children in poor countries beg, steal, sell sex, or work for drugs gang to provide income for their families.
13) According to Anti-Slavery International (ASI), as many as 200 million men, women, and children (about 3 percent of humanity) live today in conditions that amount to slavery.




- Who do do we blame? The society?
- Do you think it was the people's fault because they didn't stand out from the others all over the world? Or do you think it is the government's fault?
- Do you think by this time we can do something about it and fight against poverty? or is it too late?
- Are you willing to help?

- Do you think that there are more important things to spend in than poverty?