1. Every minute, 252 people are born in the world. and 108 people die.
2. Over 3 billion people – close to half the population of the world – live on less that two dollars fifty a day.
3. 1.4 billion people live on less than one dollar a day.
4. 1.3 billion people cannot get clean water.
5. 2 billion people cannot get electricity.
6. 3 billion do not have toilets that they can use.
7. The 497 richest people in the world have 3.5 trillion dollars – more that 7% of all the money in use.
8. 12 % of the world’s population uses 85% of its water.
9.The richest 50 million people in Europe and North America have as much money as 2.7 billion poor people.