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Did you that… 50% of people in the world survive on not more than $2.50 a day | 3 billion people in the world survive on less than $2.50 a day | 80% of people in the world depend on less than $10 a day | 75% of the total gain of the world is accounted for by the affluent | 22,000 children die every single day just because of poverty | 1.1 billion people in growing countries do not have enough water | 443 million days of school are lost because of sickness caused by water | 2.2 billion children in the entire world are living in poverty | 213 million children lack complete accommodation | 80 million children do not drink clean and pure water | 39 million children cannot get medical care | 1.4 million children die because of unclean water conditions | 13 million people are registered in poverty | 5.8 million people are in deep poverty | 870 million people do have enough food to eat | 640 million without adequate shelter | 780 million no access to safe water | 270 million with no access to health care | 40% of the world’s poorest population accounts for 5% of the global income | 20% of the richest accounts 75% of world income | 3.4 million people die every year from water related diseases | 11,700 people die every day from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria | 61 million children of primary school age were of school | 1 woman dies every minute due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth | 2 million children are in the commercial sex trade | 3.1 million children die due to malnutrition | 2 million children die in a preventable diseases | 1.6 million of the people in the world live without electricity | 1 billion people entered 21st Century unable to read a book or sign their names | 15 million children are orphaned each year

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