11 Facts About Poverty - Quick Facts About Poverty

Learn the facts about poverty and understand how it affects people around the world. 11 Facts About Poverty - Quick Facts About Poverty.

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80% of humanity lives on less than $10 per day.

http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&piPK=64165421&theSitePK=469372&menuPK=64216926&entityID=000158349_20080902095754

Over 1 billion of them still defecate in the open, in the absence of a toilet.

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/2013/jmp_fast_facts.pdf

Not to be confused, but more people have cell.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/03/25/more-people-have-cell-phones-than-toilets-u-n-study-shows/

of American workers make less than $30,000 a year.

http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/netcomp.cgi?year=2011

With the poorest place in the U.S. being Allen, South Dakota, where 96% of the population are Native American.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen,_South_Dakota

During times of severe poverty Picasso had to burn most of his early work to keep his small room warm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

And today, the combined wealth of the 85 richest people is equal to the total wealth of the poorest 3.5 billion.

http://www.oxfam.org/en/research/working-few

Over 100 million people live on less than $1 a day in China.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-15956299

Including at least 35 million who still live in caves.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/18/world/la-fg-china-caves-20120318

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_dweller

If you make more than $21,000 a year, you are one of the richest 4% on the planet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11950843

According to Bill Gates, "By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world".

http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/?cid=mg_fb_tgm0_012104#section=myth-one

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