Statistics to make us think.
Life
* More than 2.8 billion people live on less than the equivalent of $2 per day
* More than 1.2 billion people live on less than the equivalent of $1 per day
* Nearly 1 billion people are illiterate (they can’t read or write)
* More than 1 billion people don’t have access to safe water
* 1/3 of all the world’s children under 5 suffer from malnutrition
Death
* Every 3.6 seconds somebody starves to death
* – 3/4 of those who die are under the age of 5
Homeless
* Over 100,000,000 people around the world are homeless
* 3,500,000 people in the USA in 2007 were homeless
* – 1,370,000 of which are under 18
Life Expectancy
* Swaziland – 32.0 years
* Angola – 37.9 years
* Zambia – 38.5 years
* Zimbabwe – 39.7 years
