Child Poverty
Facts About Poverty
Learn the facts about poverty and how it affects children and their families.
• Children under age 18 make up nearly 48% of the population of the world’s least developed countries, compared with 21% of the population of the world’s industrialized.
• More than 1.6 billion people lack access to electricity and modern forms of energy.
• Over 1.4 billion people in the developing world live below the poverty line (U.S. $1.25 per day).
• Every day 1,500 women die from complications in pregnancy or childbirth that could have been prevented. Each day 10,000 newborns die within a month of birth, and daily the same number of babies are also born dead.
• Annual world economy breaks down like this:
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1.Low Income, $935 or less: 37%
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2.Low Middle Income, $936 to $3,705: 38%
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3.Upper Middle Income, $3,706 to $11,455: 9%
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4.High Income, $11,456 or more: 16%
• In developing countries, approximately 130 million children and teens - age 17 or under - have lost one or both parents.
• More than 9 million children under age 5 die each year. Two-thirds of these deaths - more than 6 million every year - are preventable.
• Approximately one-third of the world’s poor people live in India.