The world today
- Every minute,252 people are born in the world,and 108 people die.
- Over 3 billion people - close to half the population of the world - live on less than two dollars fifty a day.
- 1.4 billion people live on kess than one dollara day.
- 1.3 billion people cannot get clean water.
- 2 billion people cannot get electricity.
- 3 billion du not have toilets that they can use.
- The 497 richest people in the world have 3.5 trillion dollars - more than 7% of all the money in use.
- 12% of the world's populatio use 85% of its water.
- The richest 50 million people in Europe and North America have as much momney as 2.7 billion poor people.