Assignment 4

Number	Details
25	At least 80% of humanity lives on less than ten dollars per day
24	To put things into perspective the top 20% of the world's population accounts for 3 quarters of the world's income
23	Half  the world's population accounts for only 5% of the world's income
22	According to UNICEF 22 thousand children die every day due to poverty
21	Nearly one third of children in developing countries are estimated to be underweight or stunted
20	Last year about 70 mil children of primary school age were not in school
19	Nearly billion people celebrated the coming up the 21st century without being able to read a book or sign their name
18	Preventable diseases like malaria affect nearly 500 million people per year
17	Africa alone accounts for roughly 1 mil deaths due to malaria annually most of them are children
16	Speaking of children there are 2.2 bil children in the world
15	half of  them live in extreme poverty
14	Over one billion people have inadequate access to water and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation - many times this means there's no separation between drinking water and toilet water
13	That’s  why 1.8 mil children die every year from diarrhea
12	Approximately half the world's population now lives in cities and about one-third of those in the city's live in slum conditions
11	In fact slum growth is outpacing urban growth by a frighteningly large margin
10	one-quarter  of humanity lives without electricity
9	The seven richest people in the world make more than the poorest forty-one countries combined that's roughly 567 million people
8	14 percent of the world's population owns over 80% of the world's private financial wealth the vast majority has managed to avoid all income and state taxes
7	For  every one dollar in a developing country receives over 25 dollars is spent on debt repayment
6	The poorer the country the more likely it is that the debt repayments are being extracted directly from the people
5	In 1998 8 bil dollars was spent on cosmetics in the United States 11 bil dollars was spent on ice cream in the European Union 17 bil dollars was spent on pet food in Europe and the US 100 bil dollars was spent on alcohol in Europe 400 bil dollars was spent on narcotics globally 780 bil dollars were spent on militaries around the world
4	In the same year  6 billion dollars were spent on achieving basic education for all, 9billion was spent on basic water and sanitation and 13 billion was spent on basic health and nutrition for all
3	If you're reading this listing you're in the top 30% of the world's population when it comes to poverty and wealth
2	With new technologies we now grow enough food to feed 10 bil people- one-and-a-half times the world's population The problem is that most in the world can't afford to buy that food
1	If the world spent less than 1% of what it spends on weapons all the previously mentioned issues will be fixed