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WORLDWIDE STATISTICSWORLDWIDE STATISTICS
6,571,497,332 people now live on earth.
1,200,000,000 people live on 23 cents a day.
2,000,000,000 people have no electricity.
80% of all people live in sub-standard housing.
1,000,000,000 people are without safe drikinng water
Every 16 seconds someone dies of hunger
57,000,000 people died in 2006
10,500,000 of these were children less than 5 years old
14, 000,000 children were orphaned because of HIV Aids.
2,000,000 children have died as a direct result of armed conflict during the last 10 years
Meanwhile....
Americans spent $8,000,000,000 on cosmetics in 2005
Europeans spent $11,000,000,000 on ice cream
America and Europe spent $17,000,000,000 on pet food
Europeans spent $105,000,000,000 on alcohol.
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