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600 million children live in absolute poverty.30,000 children die each day to poverty.Number of children in the world: 2.2 billion Number in poverty: 1 billion (every second child)400 million children , one in five, have no access to safe water.An estimated 200 million children live on the streets.Each day, 5,000 children become refugees.Over 100 million children are growing up today without an education.--------------------------------------------------
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About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes. Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the age of five. (United Nations)
Every 30 seconds an African child dies of malaria-more than one million child deaths a year. (UN Millennium Project)
Every year more than 10 million children die of hunger and preventable diseases - that's over 30,000 per day and one every 3 seconds. (Millennium Campaign)
More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day...300 million are children. Of these 300 million children, only eight percent are victims of famine or other emergency situations. More than 90 percent are suffering long-term malnourishment and micronutrient deficiency. (UN Millennium Project)
Five million people, mostly children, die each year from water-borne diseases. (UN Millennium Project)
600 million children live in absolute poverty. (Millennium Campaign)
30,000 children die each day due to poverty. That is about 210,000 children each week, or just under 11 million children under five years of age, each year. (Unicef)
Number of children in the world: 2.2 billion. Number in poverty: 1 billion (every second child) (Global Issues)
10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (same as children population in France, Germany, Greece and Italy) (Global Issues)
2.2 million children die each year because they are not immunized. (Global Issues)
15 million children orphaned due to HIV/AIDS (similar to the total children population in Germany or United Kingdom) (Global Issues)
More than 10 percent of children in developing countries die before the age of five. (CARE)
Around 270 million children have no access to healthcare services. (World Vision New Zealand)
In impoverished communities, children who are born with disabilities or disfigurements are often rejected, abandoned or abused. (World Vision New Zealand)
The number of youth in the world surviving on less than a dollar a day in 2000 was an estimated 238 million, almost a quarter (22.5 per cent) of the world’s total youth population. (United Nations Population Fund)
South Asia has the largest concentration of young people in extreme poverty (106 million), followed by sub-Saharan Africa (60 million), East Asia and the Pacific (51 million) and Latin America and the Caribbean (15 million). (United Nations Population Fund)
Each day, 5,000 children become refugees, and one in every 230 persons in the world is a child or adolescent who has been forced to flee his or her home. (United Nations Population Fund)
In 2000, an estimated 300,000 soldiers under the age of 18 were involved in 30 conflicts around the world. (United Nations Population Fund)
Global estimates of street children vary from 100 million (half of them in Latin America) to 250 million, and their numbers are rapidly increasing. (United Nations Population Fund)
Worldwide, an estimated 352 million children between ages 5 and 17 were economically active in 2000, over 246 million of them working illegally and nearly 171 million in hazardous conditions. (United Nations Population Fund)
In sub-Saharan Africa, child mortality averages 173 deaths per 1,000 live births. (Unicef)
Out of 100 children born in 2000, 30 will likely suffer malnutrition and 17 will never go to school.
An estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked each year for labour or sex.
More than 2 million children are thought to have died in armed conflict in the past decade.
Up to 10,000 children are killed or maimed by landmines each year.
An estimated 100 million women and girls have undergone genital mutilation.
400 million children, one in five, have no access to safe water. Meanwhile, unsafe water and sanitation cause about 4,000 child deaths per day.
Nearly half of Asia's 1.27 billion children live in poverty. (Plan USA)There are more than 73 million children in the United States. 40%—29.2 million—live in low-income families. 18%—13.5 million—live in poor families. (National Center for Children in Poverty)
A U.S. child is more than five times as likely to be poor as a child in Denmark, Norway, Finland, Swedan. (Poor Kids in a Rich Country)
Father absence is another major cause of child poverty. Nearly two-thirds of poor children reside in single-parent homes; each year, an additional 1.3 million children are born out of wedlock. If poor mothers married the fathers of their children, almost three-quarters would immediately be lifted out of poverty. (The Heritage Foundation)
Overall, some 567,000 children, or 0.8 percent of all children, were hungry at some point in 2002. In a typical month, roughly one child in 400 skipped one or more meals because the family lacked funds to buy food. (The Heritage Foundation)
Every 40 seconds, an American baby is born into poverty. That child will not wake to a promising public education nor will that baby find proper treatment if he is sick. (Chicago Maroon)
One in five children (approximately 15 million) in our nation live at or below the poverty line. (Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry)
Over 9 million children are the recipients of food from either a pantry, kitchen or shelter. (Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry)
The net wealth of the 10 richest billionaires is $133 billion, more than 1.5 times the total national income of the least developed countries.
The cost of eradicating poverty is 1% of global income.
Effective debt relief to the 20 poorest countries would cost $5.5 billion - equivalent to the cost of building EuroDisney.
Providing universal access to basic social services and transfers to alleviate income poverty would cost $80 billion, less than the net worth of the seven richest men in the world.
Six countries can spend $700 million in nine days on dog and cat food.
Today’s world spend $92 billion on junkfood, $66 billion on cosmetics and nearly $800 billion in 1995 for defence expenditure.At the Monterrey Financing for Development Conference in 2002, world leaders pledged “to make concrete efforts towards the target of 0.7%†of their national income in international aid. In today’s dollars, that would amount to almost $200 billion each year.In 2005, total aid from the 22 richest countries to the world’s developing countries was just $106 billion—a shortfall of $119 billion dollars from the 0.7% promise. On average, the world’s richest countries provided just 0.33% of their GNP in official development assistance (ODA). The United States provided just 0.22%.The cost of supporting countries to meet the Goals would require donors to increase ODA to 0.44% of GNP by 2006 (or $135 billion) and to plan for a scale-up to 0.54% by 2015 (or $195 billion) – well within the bounds of the 0.7% promised in Monterrey. This means that of the combined rich world GNP of approximately $30 trillion dollars, on average just $150 billion a year would be enough to get the world on track to ending extreme poverty throughout the world.Five countries have already met or surpassed the 0.7% target: Denmark, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Five other countries have committed themselves to a timeline to reach this target before 2015: Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland and the United Kingdom. In May of 2005, all members of the European Union (except for those 'new' members who joined after 2002) agreed to meet the target by 2015. This brought the number of rich countries who have already met, or have committed to meet, the 0.7% target by 2015 to seventeen.....
