Poverty Facts

More than one billion people in the world live on less than one dollar a day. Find out statistics and facts about child poverty on Kidspress Magazine!

• 1 billion children worldwide are living in poverty.

• 75 percent of the world’s poorest countries are located in Africa.

• 870 million people worldwide do not have enough food to eat.
  

  More than 92 percent of Americans participate at some level of charitable giving.

• Every 3.6 seconds a person dies from hunger.

• A child is born into poverty every 33 seconds.

• As of 2011, 19 million children worldwide are not vaccinated.

• 10.6 million children died in the year of 2003 before they could reach the age of 5!

• Approximately 1.6 billion people live without electricity.

• 783 million people in the world do not have access to safe water.

• 58 percent of deaths in children under age five are caused by infectious diseases.

• Country with highest number of under five deaths: India.

• 218 million children aged 5 – 17 are involved in child labor worldwide.

• 42% of homeless children are under the age of 6.

• One out of four children – roughly 146 million – in developing countries is underweight.

• There are seven million children in the US today that are not covered by health insurance at all.

• One out of every seven Americans is on food stamps and one out of every four American children is on food stamps.

• More than 1 billion people lack adequate access to clean drinking water and an estimated 400 million of these are children.