Sobering Statistics

• Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.


• Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.


• Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000.


• 20% of the population in the developed nations, consume 86% of the world’s goods.


• A few hundred millionaires now own as much wealth as the world’s poorest 2.5 billion people. http://www.globalissues.org/