[0044] - Mind Boggling Statistics

• Nearly 800 million people in the world do not receive enough food, and about 500 million people are chronically malnourished.
• 1.3 billion people lack access to safe drinking water, and more than half of the worlds population does not have adequate water supplies.
• 17 million people die every year from treatable infectious diseases. The most common are respiratory infections (7 million deaths a year), diarrhea (4 million), tuberculosis (3 million).
• Of the world's 18 million people infected with HIV, a staggering 90% live in the southern hemisphere (developing world). Only 30% of the world's doctors practice in these countries, despite the fact that 75% of the world's population live in these countries.
• More than one-third of children in the south are malnourished. Every three seconds a child dies from malnutrition-related problems (more than 1000 an hour, 30000 a day, and 10 million a year).
• About 130 million children in the southern hemisphere do not attend primary school, and 275 million do not attend secondary school.
• One billion people in the world are illiterate.
• 70% of the people in abject poverty in the world are women.
• Two-thirds of illiterate people are women.
• In the southern hemisphere, maternal mortality rates are 12 times higher than the women in the northern hemisphere (developed world).
• 80% of malnourished children are female.
• Women hold only 10% of seats in the world's legislative assemblies and parliament.

Eye opening or what?