Sickening Statistics

Life

* More than 2.8 billion people live on less than the equivalent of $2 per day
* More than 1.2 billion people live on less than the equivalent of $1 per day
* Nearly 1 billion people are illiterate (they can’t read or write)
* More than 1 billion people don’t have access to safe water
* 1/3 of all the world’s children under 5 suffer from malnutrition

Death

* Every 3.6 seconds somebody starves to death
* - 3/4 of those who die are under the age of 5
* 32,637 people committed suicide in the USA in 2005
* - 25,907 of which were male
* - 6,730 of which were female
* Over 15,000 people are murdered each year in the USA alone

Homeless

* Over 100,000,000 people around the world are homeless
* 750,000 people in the USA in 2005 were homeless
* - 41% of these were families
* 3,500,000 people in the USA in 2007 were homeless
* - 1,370,000 of which are under 18

Life Expectancy

* Swaziland - 32.0 years
* Angola - 37.9 years
* Zambia - 38.5 years
* Zimbabwe - 39.7 years