Global Poverty at a Glance Powerpoint Templates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnu3rrycuQA

Half of this food comes from 4 plant species: rice, maize, wheat, potato and 3 animal species: cattle, swine, poultry

A few more things… World Hunger Women and Children 805 million people – or one in nine people in the world – do not have enough to eat. 98% of the world’s undernourished people live in developing countries. Where is hunger the worst? Asia: 525.6 million Sub-Saharan Africa: 214 million Latin America and the Caribbean: 37 million Women and Children

Women and Children 60 percent of the world’s hungry are women. 50 percent of pregnant women in developing countries lack proper maternal care, resulting in 240,000 maternal deaths annually from childbirth. Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five – 3.1 million children each year. That is 8,500 children per day. A third of all childhood death in sub-Saharan Africa is caused by hunger. Every 10 seconds, a child dies from hunger-related diseases.

HIV/AIDS and other Diseases 35 million people are living with HIV/AIDS. 52 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS are women. 88 percent of all children and 60 percent of all women living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa. 6.9 million children died in 2011 each year – 19,000 a day- mostly from preventable health issues such as malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia.

Agriculture Water 75 percent of the world’s poorest people — 1.4 billion women, children, and men — live in rural areas and depend on agriculture and related activities for their livelihood. 50 percent of hungry people are farming families. 1.7 billion people lack access to clean water. 2.3 billion people suffer from water-borne diseases each year. 12 percent of the world’s population uses 85 percent of its water, and none of the 12 percent lives in developing countries.