The Fact About Poverty

1. 1.1 billion people survive on less than $1 per day.  70 percent live in rural areas where they are highly dependent on ecosystem services 

2. Inequality has increased over the past decade. During the 1990s, 21 countries experienced declines in their rankings in the Human Development Index 

3. Over 850 million people were undernourished in 2000–02, up 37 million from the period 1997–99.

4. Per capita food production has declined in sub-Saharan Africa  

5. Some 1.1 billion people still lack access to improved water supply, and more than 2.6 billion lack access to improved sanitation 

6. Water scarcity affects roughly 1–2 billion people worldwide. 

7. Global improvements in levels of poverty are skewed by rapid economic growth in India and China; poverty elsewhere (especially in sub-Saharan Africa) is profound and persistent

Source:

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment