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Hunger
afflicts one out of seven people on Earth.
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Over
80% of all illness in the developing world is directly or indirectly
associated with poor water supply and sanitation. In Ethiopia only
1% of the people have safe water…Annually, one-sixth of all African
children die before their first birthday.
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In the past decade alone, the estimated impact of armed conflict on
children includes 2 million killed, 6 million seriously injured or
permanently disabled, 12 million left homeless, more than 1 million
orphaned or separated from their families, and 10 million psychologically
traumatized.
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855,000,000
people in the world are illiterate; one-sixth of humanity and two-thirds
of women.
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Nearly
a billion people will enter the 21st century unable to read a book
or sign their names and two-thirds of them are women.
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Today,
about 42 million people in Pakistan lack adequate income to purchase
the food they need for a healthy life. The fact that about one-third
of the population does not have access to food needed for adequate
nutrition is manifested by the widespread incidence of malnutrition.
In 1998, the estimated number of malnourished children was about 8
million. Nearly half of the children under five years of age are underweight.
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Every
year, an estimated 40 million births go unregistered. That's one third
of all babies born in the world.
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In
the world economy, where defense expenditures total approximately
$781 billion a year, the $7 billion more per year needed for education
over the next decade remains an unmet challenge for the international
community. By spending $7 billion more each year for the next 10 years,
(less than the amount people in the United States pay annually for
cosmetics and Europeans for ice cream), the dream of educating all
children could become a reality
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Only
56 per cent of boys and 44 per cent of girls enroll in primary school
in the world's least developed countries
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In Latin America 90% of fertilizer is used for purposes other than
producing basic food for local people.
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Even
if the growth rate of the poor countries doubled, only 7 would close
the gap with the rich nations in 100 years. Only 9 would reach that
same level in at least 1000
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20%
of the world’s people own and consume 82.7% of the world’s
wealth
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The
approximate number of people without sufficient food is 730 million;
the amount of food that would eliminate world hunger, per annum (p.a.)
is approximately 40 million tons; the amount of food aid p.a. is approximately
10 million tons; and the amount of grain fed to animals in the rich
countries, p.a. is over 540 million
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The
income gap between the richest fifth of the world's people and the
poorest fifth increased from 30 to 1 in 1960 to 74 to 1 in 1997
