{"id":161473,"date":"2015-10-30T18:18:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T18:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/21-shocking-facts-about-global-poverty\/"},"modified":"2024-01-29T13:02:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T13:02:32","slug":"21-shocking-facts-about-global-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/stories\/21-shocking-facts-about-global-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"21 shocking facts about global poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We hope you have a ghoulish weekend ahead of you full of tricks (a few), treats (lots) and plenty of pumpkin spiced lattes!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But if you want to have a REAL scare, check out our list of the most <strong>SHOCKING<\/strong> global poverty facts that we\u2019re willing to bet you didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><strong>Read on, if you dare\u2026 <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. More people have access to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/water_sanitation_health\/monitoring\/jmp-2015-update\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mobile phone than a toilet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/one_org_international.s3.amazonaws.com\/international\/media\/international\/2015\/10\/30165601\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-30-at-16.55.01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-post-image wp-image-29436\" src=\"https:\/\/one_org_international.s3.amazonaws.com\/international\/media\/international\/2015\/10\/30165601\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-30-at-16.55.01-600x299.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-30 at 16.55.01\" width=\"593\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Americans spend more on Halloween than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthdata.org\/policy-report\/financing-global-health-2014-shifts-funding-mdg-era-closes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">entire world spends on malaria<\/a> in a year.<\/p>\n<p>3. 663 million people in the world\u20141\u00a0in 10\u2014lack access to safe water.<\/p>\n<p>4. 730 million people in sub-Saharan Africa heat their home and cook food using open fires.\u00a0<strong>Which is really, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleancookstoves.org\/\">really bad for your health.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5. Every year, consumers in rich countries waste almost as much food (222 million tons) as the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/food-loss-and-food-waste\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa<\/a> (230 million tons).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/one_org_international.s3.amazonaws.com\/international\/media\/international\/2015\/10\/30162042\/Halloween3Twitter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29426 size-post-image aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/one_org_international.s3.amazonaws.com\/international\/media\/international\/2015\/10\/30162042\/Halloween3Twitter-600x300.jpg\" alt=\"Halloween3Twitter\" width=\"593\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>6. There are 59 million children who don\u2019t go to school. UNESCO have provided a map of the percentage of children not in school per country in the world:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tellmaps.com\/uis\/oosc\/#!\/tellmap\/-528275754\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29419 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/one_org_international.s3.amazonaws.com\/international\/media\/international\/2015\/10\/30155836\/Kids-out-of-school-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Map of children out of school globally\" width=\"941\" height=\"547\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tellmaps.com\/uis\/internal\/embed.jsp?subject=-1335315271&amp;lang=en&amp;width=696&amp;height=505&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>7. 32.2 million \u2013 over 50% of children who are not in education are girls. (Further proof that <a href=\"https:\/\/one.org\/sexist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#PovertyisSexist<\/a>.) This is UNESCO\u2019s map of the gender gap for literacy:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/tellmaps.com\/uis\/oosc\/#!\/tellmap\/131424561\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29420 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/one_org_international.s3.amazonaws.com\/international\/media\/international\/2015\/10\/30160039\/Gender-Gap-School-Children-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Gender Gap School Children 2\" width=\"687\" height=\"497\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tellmaps.com\/uis\/internal\/embed.jsp?subject=-1473436196&amp;datapresentation=2&amp;lang=en&amp;width=696&amp;height=505&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a>8. Similarly, 63% or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uis.unesco.org\/literacy\/Documents\/fs32-2015-literacy.pdf\">479 million of the world\u2019s adult illiterate population<\/a> are women.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/one_org_international.s3.amazonaws.com\/international\/media\/international\/2015\/10\/30162027\/Halloween1Twitter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-post-image wp-image-29424 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/one_org_international.s3.amazonaws.com\/international\/media\/international\/2015\/10\/30162027\/Halloween1Twitter-600x300.jpg\" alt=\"Halloween1Twitter\" width=\"593\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>You may have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/international\/blog\/bonos-message2london-poverty-is-sexist\/\">seen our billboard<\/a> if you live in London.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29266 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/one_org_international.s3.amazonaws.com\/international\/media\/international\/2015\/10\/22140501\/billboard.jpeg\" alt=\"billboard\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>9. Every year, developing countries are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/international\/policy\/trillion-dollar-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">robbed of more than $1 trillion<\/a> that could fight poverty, disease and hunger.\u00a0<strong>A stack of a trillion one dollar bills would stand 67,866 miles high and reach roughly a third of the way to the moon!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/one_org_international.s3.amazonaws.com\/international\/media\/international\/2015\/10\/30165914\/Copy-of-Twitter-Image-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-post-image wp-image-29439\" src=\"https:\/\/one_org_international.s3.amazonaws.com\/international\/media\/international\/2015\/10\/30165914\/Copy-of-Twitter-Image-2-600x300.png\" alt=\"Copy of Twitter Image 2\" width=\"593\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>10. The value of Africa\u2019s oil and mining exports was more than seven times the value of international aid the continent received in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>11. Only <a href=\"https:\/\/internationalbudget.org\/opening-budgets\/open-budget-initiative\/open-budget-survey\/publications-2\/rankings-key-findings\/rankings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three African countries<\/a> publish sufficient budget information for citizens to know what their governments are spending money on.\u00a0<strong>This NEEDS to change. However, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/international\/blog\/why-we-need-a-data-revolution\/\">data revolution<\/a> is imminent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12. Hunger and malnutrition are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/hunger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">number one risk<\/a> to health in the world, greater than HIV\/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.<\/p>\n<p>13. Diarrhea and pneumonia together also claim more children\u2019s lives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countdown2015mnch.org\/reports-and-articles\/2015-final-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">than AIDS, malaria and TB<\/a> combined. These are all preventable, treatable diseases that no one should have to die from.<\/p>\n<p>14. Every day, approximately 800 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. And 99% of these deaths occur in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>15. Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnutritionreport.org\/2014\/11\/13\/global-nutrition-report-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">795 million people<\/a> are suffering from hunger, and more than 2 billion people do not get the nutrition they need to thrive.<\/p>\n<p>16. About <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnutritionreport.org\/the-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">161 million children<\/a> every year are stunted or permanently disadvantaged for life, simply from a lack of adequate nutrition.<\/p>\n<p>17. If women farmers had the same access to resources as men, the number of hungry in the world could be reduced by up to 150 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, some positive news as a treat!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>18. A child born to a mother who can read is 50% more likely to survive past the age of 5.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/one_org_international.s3.amazonaws.com\/international\/media\/international\/2015\/10\/30162034\/Halloween2Twitter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-post-image wp-image-29425 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/one_org_international.s3.amazonaws.com\/international\/media\/international\/2015\/10\/30162034\/Halloween2Twitter-600x300.jpg\" alt=\"Halloween2Twitter\" width=\"593\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>19. The world achieved the first Millennium Development Goal\u2014to <a href=\"https:\/\/iresearch.worldbank.org\/PovcalNet\/index.htm?1\">halve the poverty rate<\/a> among developing countries\u2014five years ahead of schedule in 2010!<\/p>\n<p>20. T<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">he share of people living in extreme poverty across the globe has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/publication\/global-monitoring-report\/poverty-forecasts-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declined<\/a> from 37.1% in 1990 to 29.1% in 1999 to 12.7% in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>21. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The W<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">orld Bank has predicted that the number of people living in extreme poverty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/publication\/global-monitoring-report\/poverty-forecasts-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will fall<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to 702 million people in 2015, or 9.6% of the global population\u2013down from 12.7% in 2012.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>At this rate of change, it is absolutely possible to pull the remaining people out of poverty!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>But, we need help to turn those first 17 facts into fiction! 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