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Poverty Statistics

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• One third of deaths - some 18 million people a year or 50,000 per day - are due to poverty-related causes. That's 270 million people since 1990, the majority women and children, roughly equal to the population of the US . (Reality of Aid 2004)



• 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. (80 Million Lives, 2003 / Bread for the World / UNICEF / World Health Organization)



• Over 1 billion people live on less than $1 a day with nearly half the world's population (2.8 billion) living on less than $2 a day. (UN HDR, 2003)



• 600 million children live in absolute poverty. (SCF, Beat Poverty 2003).



• The three richest people in the world control more wealth than all 600 million people living in the world's poorest countries. (Source:ChristianAid)



• Income per person in the poorest countries in Africa has fallen by a quarter in the last 20 years. (Source:ChristianAid)



• 800 million people go to bed hungry every day. (Source:FAO)



• Every year nearly 11million children die before their fifth birthday.(Source:UNICEF)