Saturday, November 15, 2014

Pecha Kucha presentation

Number

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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 three-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  22000 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 Million 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 million  deaths due to malaria annually most of them are children 

16
Speaking of children there are 2.2 billion  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 million  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 poorestforty-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 incoming in this state taxes either by the countries where it’s been invested 

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 billion dollars was spent on cosmetics in the United States

 11 billion dollars was spent on ice cream in the European Union

 17 billion  dollars was spent on pet food in Europe and the US

 100 billion  dollars was spent on alcohol in Europe

 400 billion  dollars was spent on narcotics globally

 780 billion  dollars were spent on militaries around the world

4
In the same year 6 billion dollars were spent on achieving basic education for all, 9 billion 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 billion 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