1. Based on enrollment data, about 72 million children of primary school age in the developing world were not in school in 2005; 57 of them were girls. And these are regarded as optimistic numbers

 

 

2. Pneumonia, the leading infectious cause of death among children under five, killing 2,400 children a day, is strongly linked to poverty-related factors such as under-nutrition, lack of safe water/sanitation, indoor air pollution and inadequate health care.

 

 

3. At the end of 2024, there were 123.2 million forcibly displaced people worldwide.  That’s roughly equivalent to the population of Mexico.

 

 

4.

On average, 13 children will die every minute of every hour of every day because of the debt crisis in developing countries.

 

 

5. Africa uses less than 3{5d21ca8f3af2f37b0bc16927eb571d1ae99c4ba19a2ec08b589c9cc4ef87832d} of the world’s energy, despite having 12.5{5d21ca8f3af2f37b0bc16927eb571d1ae99c4ba19a2ec08b589c9cc4ef87832d} of the world’s population.

 

 

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