A Billion Facts
 

• Almost half the world — over three billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day.
  
• The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income. The richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world income.
  
• Number of children in the world
  2.2 billion
  
• Number in poverty
  1 billion (every second child)
  
• 1.6 billion people — a quarter of humanity — live without electricity:
  
• 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.
  
• The world’s billionaires — just 497 people (approximately 0.000008% of the world’s population) — were worth $3.5 trillion (over 7% of world GDP).
  
• The total wealth of the top 8.3 million people around the world “rose 8.2 percent to $30.8 trillion in 2004, giving them control of nearly a quarter of the world’s financial assets.”
  
  In other words, about 0.13% of the world’s population controlled 25% of the world’s financial assets in 2004.
  
• For every $1 in aid a developing country receives, over $25 is spent on debt repayment.
  
• 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.

Poverty Facts and Stats ? Global Issues

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evil rich!

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Nice spot.

they are rich on back of poor

Indeed. Rich do nothing to get rich while poor work hard.

China and India account for over 40% of the world population.

India and China have had large impoverished populations for thousands of years.

Yeah! Guns, drugs and rock 'n roll!

It's a dog-eat-dog world - and we're all wearing Milkbone underwear.