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Unequal World

Our Unequal World

Today, approximately 80% of the world’s population live in the ‘Third World’ or ‘Developing World’, and for that reason, it is sometimes referred to as the ‘Majority World’. This huge majority population has access to an unequal share of the world’s resources and human welfare.

How Many People?

The world has 100 people.

How many people would be from: – Asia? – African? – Europe? – South America? – North America? – Oceania?

The World VillageIf the world’s population shrunk to a village

of 100 people, there would be:

• 61 Asians• 14 Africans• 12 Europeans• 7 people from Latin America

and the Caribbean• 5 North Americans• 1 from Oceania

• 47 would live in a city• 30 would be under 15• 7 would be over 65• 20 would be living in absolute poverty• 20 would not have access to safe water• 14 adults would be unable to read• 8 would not be expected to live to the

age of 40

The ‘Developing World’ has:

• 80% of the world’s people• 15% of the world’s education spending• 7% of the world’s health expenditure• 18% of the world’s GNP• 65% of the world’s refugees• 38% of the world’s carbon emissions• 95% of the world’s wars• 95% of people living with HIV/AIDS

The ‘Developing World’ has:

• 25% of the world’s industrial production• 26% of the world’s electricity

consumption• 61% of the world’s cereal production• 36% of world export earnings• 7 of the 10 largest cities in the world• In 1999, developing countries received

official aid worth 0.6% of their GDP ($7 per person), but paid 5.2% in debt service ($22 per person).

Consider ...• Each year 40 million

people die from hunger-related diseases— the equivalent of 300 airplane crashes a day.

• 10 million children a year die before the age of five, most from preventable diseases.

• 1.1 billion people live on less than $1 per day and 2.7 billion live on less than $2 per day.

• 12% of the world’s population uses approximately 85% of its water, and this 12% does not live in the Third World.

At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day.

According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty.

And they “die quietly in some of the poorest villages on

earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and

weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.”

Around 27-28 percent of all

children in developing countries are estimated to be

underweight or stunted. The two

regions that account for the bulk of the deficit are South

Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

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 and yet it didn’t happen.

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

names.

1.6 billion people — a quarter of humanity — live without electricity

Approximately half the world’s population now live in cities and towns. In 2005, one out of three urban dwellers (approximately 1 billion people) was living in slum conditions

Wealth and poverty today

• In 1960, the richest 20% of the world’s people shared between them 70% of the entire wealth of the planet.

• By the mid-1990’s, this figure increased to over 85%.

In 2013 the world’s 85 richest people

owned assets with the same value as those owned by

the poorer half of the world’s

population, or 3.5 billion people.

The majority of the world’s people remain poor.

The largest concentrations of poverty and underdevelopment in the world occur throughout sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America.

In countries like Niger or Sierra Leone, not being poor is the exception,rather than the rule.

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