Today's Global Human Need
Poverty, slums, disasters, deprivation, rights
abuses, illness, disease, addiction
HUMANS ON THE GLOBE OF MID-1990
5,292,180,000 population
91,201,500 population increase p.a.
Growth 1.72% pa
(93% in developing countries)
Median age 24.2 years
141.6 million births p.a. (2.67% p.a.)
50.5 million deaths p.a. (0.96% p.a.)
Life expectancy 62.3 years
BASIC RIGHTS:
FOOD, WATER, SHELTER, CARE
1.8 billion undernourished
950 million hungry
550 million severely malnourished
500 million suffering from iron-deficiency anemia
400 million on verge of starvation
10 million babies born malnourished p.a.
Infant mortality 68 per 1,000 births
Maternal mortality 500,000 p.a.
15 million annual hunger-related deaths of under 5s
20 million starvation-related deaths p.a.
1.3 billion without safe water to drink
2.2 billion without adequate safe water supply
3.0 billion with unsafe water & bad sanitation
25,000 a day killed by dirty water
1.1 billion without adequate shelter
100 million with no shelter at all
50 million cave-dwellers
1.1 billion without money to buy food
1.3 billion with scarce firewood
60 million abandoned children and infants
300 million homeless/family-less children
100 million mega city street children
450 million orphans
520 million slum dwellers
70 million new slum dwellers p.a.
80 million supported by garbage collection/recycling
1.5 billion with no access to medical care
2.4 billion poor (46% of world)
1,273 million urban poor (1.1 billion in Third World)
952 million absolutely poor (18%)
Poorest 20% of world gets 1.6% of GWP
Working-age population: 60 million more p.a.
Exploited child labor: 50 million
80 million beggars
90 million unemployed workers
600 million underemployed labor
1 billion urban part-time street
vendors
Physical quality of life index global average 68%
50 countries with less calorie supply than essential
SOCIOPOLITICAL RIGHTS
10 million stateless (no nationality)
12 million deportees (expelled) p.a.
4 billion unprotected from human rights abuses
Human rights: 45% violated
14 million permanently unsettled refugees
25 million emigrants/immigrants p.a.
154 countries not controlled by popular votes
2.8 billion disenfranchised (no control by vote)
1,035 million illiterate/nonliterate adults (29%)
880 million orate (nonreader) adults unable to read or write
9 million more illiterate adults p.a.
250 million with language handicaps
3.7 billion without political freedom
1,307 million in religious countries
1,579 million in secular countries
1,488 million under atheistic regimes
400 million under oppressive regimes
70 million under racist regimes
2.5 billion women denied full rights and equality
1 billion victims of corruption
750 million uneducated (no past schooling)
1.5 billion school-age children (ages 5-19)
1.0 billion with little or no access to schools
620 million school-agers not in schools
360 million with no access to schools
24 million children reach school age p.a.
41% without access to electricity
43% without access to telephone
67% without radio or TV
100 million prisoners in 12-month period
4 million political prisoners
1 million prisoners due to religion
800,000 prisoners of conscience
2.6 billion denied freedom of religion
4.2 billion denied full political freedom & civil rights
2 billion in countries employing torture
100,000 prisoners being tortured
130 million citizens killed by own governments since 1900
1,692,400 political executions, 1948-77
40,000 executed by governments each year
32 million slaves (bought and sold, including bonded labor)
510 million victims of crime
p.a.
850,000 murders a year
5 million child victims of pedophile racketeers p.a.
22 million child-abuse incidents p.a.
200 million persons abused in childhood
FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS
3 billion denied freedom to travel in own country
4 billion denied freedom to travel abroad
3 billion denied freedom to assemble
3.5 billion denied freedom to teach ideas
DISASTERS AND DESERTIFICATION
1 million more desertification victims p.a.
10 million environmental refugees
850 million at risk through desertification
1,500 major earthquakes 1900-1985
1.8 million killed in earthquakes
80,000 earthquake victims p.a.
350 major floods 1960-1981, killing 175,000
10,000 flood victims (deaths) p.a.
210 major cyclones, 1960-1981, killing 536,000
250,000 environmental disaster victims p.a.
1 million poisoned by pesticides p.a.
625 million live in areas with unhealthy air
25,000 pollution deaths p.a.
1 million killed in man-made disasters p.a.
Traffic deaths 3 per 100 million vehicle miles
ILLNESS/DISEASE
42 million legally blind
28 million totally blind
18 million with river blindness (85 million at risk)
320 million partially deaf
20 million totally deaf
10 million dumb (deaf-mutes)
10 million with dracunculiasis
13 million leprosy sufferers
60 million diabetics
400 million new malaria cases p.a.
2.8 billion live at risk of malaria
5 million malaria deaths p.a.
270 million with elephantiasis
200 million with schistosomiasis (600 million at risk)
1 million a year bitten by poisonous snakes
40,000 deaths from poisonous snake bites p.a.
9 million with Parkinson's disease
10 million with tuberculosis
3 million TB deaths p.a.
465 million iron-deficiency anemic women
100 million with chemosensory disorders
3 million with artificial implants
300,000 persons kept alive by artificial kidneys
50,000 organ transplants a year
3,000 heart transplants a year
60,000 awaiting organ donors
51 million psychotics
10 million schizophrenics
950 million psycho neurotics
300 million arthritics
900 million experiencing chronic pain
1.6 billion disabled
340 million handicapped children
85 million severely handicapped children
3 million dwarfs
2 billion sick/ill persons (30% children)
Labor absenteeism: $6 billion p.a.
2.8 million children die yearly from vaccine-preventable disease
6 infectious diseases kill 4 million unimmunized children p.a.
4 billion persons not immunized
5 million diarrhea deaths of children under 5 p.a.
4 million children die of pneumonia p.a.
22 million prostitutes (9% male)
60 million AIDS carriers (growth 100% p.a.)
3 million AIDS cases
400,000 AIDS-related deaths yearly
401,000 suicides yearly
650 million tobacco smokers
2.6 million tobacco-related deaths p.a.
170 million alcoholics
55 million drug addicts
Leading causes of 50.5 million deaths p.a.:
...Parasitic diseases 16.8 million
...Circulatory diseases 13.3 million
...Cancer 4.3 million
...Perinatal diseases 3.3 million
...Injury and poisoning 2.7 million
...Cardiovascular disease 5 million
130 million severely mentally-retarded
220,000 Downs syndrome births p.a.
26 million epileptics
260,000 hemophiliacs (all males)
450,000 albinos
100 million albino gene-carriers
FINANCE
Money needed to provide those in poverty with adequate food, water,
education, health: $500 billion p.a.
All statistics refer primarily
to the year 1990 (usually mid-1990). All monies are given in USA
dollars. "P.A." means "per annum", "per year", "a year", "each year",
"every year". The same global totals throughout these diagrams may be
given in rounded 1,2,3 or 4 significant figures (e.g. world population
is 5.3 billion, or 5,292 million). Partial totals may not always add up
to global totals or 100.0% because of rounding.
Source: Our globe and how to reach it, 1990.
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