How many people in the world live on less than two dollars a day?
Half the world -- nearly three billion people -- live on less than two dollars a day.
Over a billion people live on less than one dollar a day.
Source: Bread for the World
How many people in the world are malnourished?
More than 840 million people in the world are malnourished—799 million of them are from the developing world. More than 153 million of them are under the age of 5.
An estimated 6 million children under the age of 5 die each year from hunger-related causes.
How does the income of the world's richest 1 percent compare with the income of the world's poor?
The amount of money that the richest 1 percent of the world's people make annually is equal to what the poorest 57 percent make annually.
The richest 5 percent of the world's people have incomes 114 times that of the poorest 5 percent.
Source: Bread for the WorldHow much of the world's goods are consumed by the 20 percent of the world's people who live in developed nations?
20 percent of the world's people consume 86 percent of the world's resources.
Source: 1998 Human Development Report, United Nations Development Programme
