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.
- 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.