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Facts on hunger, water and children affected by conflict and HIV and AIDS
World Vision raises funds for programs that tackle hunger and other critical problems linked directly to poverty, including water shortages, conflict and HIV and AIDS. Here are some key statistics on these issues and how they affect children.
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Hunger and Malnutrition
- Number of people in the world who suffer from chronic malnutrition: 854 million
SOURCE: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2008
- Percentage of children living in poverty in the world: almost 50
SOURCE: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), The State of the World’s Children 2005
- Percentage of underweight children under the age of five worldwide: 25
SOURCE: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), The State of the World’s Children 2008
- Estimated number of daily child deaths linked to extreme poverty: nearly 30,000
SOURCE: United Nation’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF), The State of the World’s Children 2005
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Water
- Number of people worldwide who do not have access to safe water: 1.1 billion
SOURCE: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Human Development Report 2006: Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis
- Number of people who die each year of water-related diseases: 5 million
SOURCE: Pacific Institute, Dirty Water: Estimated Deaths from Water-Related Diseases 2000-2020, 2002
- Length of time the human body can survive without water: five to seven days
SOURCE: Environment Canada. Freshwater website: Quickfacts, 2007
- Average daily quantity of water used by a person living in a developing country: 10 litres
SOURCE: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) World Environment Day website
- Amount of water used during a five-minute shower: 100 litres
SOURCE: Environment Canada. Freshwater website: Quickfacts, 2007
- Average daily quantity of water used by someone living in Canada: 335 litres
SOURCE: Environment Canada. Freshwater website: Water: No Time to Waste, 2007
- Funding required to reach the goal of providing clean drinking water for everyone in the world: $12-35 billion additional funding annually
SOURCE: United Nations Education and Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP), The Millennium Development Goals and Water, 2007
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Children Affected by Conflict
- Number of children, under 18, currently serving in government forces or armed rebel groups: 300, 000
SOURCE: Human Rights Watch, Facts About Child Soldiers, 2006
- Number of countries where children are currently serving in armed forces: 36
SOURCE: Human Rights Watch, Facts About Child Soldiers, 2006
- Number of children forced to flee their homes and live as refugees: 9 million
SOURCE: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 2000
- Number child soldiers worldwide: 300,000
SOURCE: Human Rights Watch website: Child Soldiers
- Annual worldwide military spending: $1.3 trillion
SOURCE: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI Yearbook 2006: Armaments,Disarmament and International Security
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HIV and AIDS
- Number of people living with HIV in the world today: 33.2 million
SOURCE: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update: Global Summary
- Number of people under 25 who become HIV-positive every minute: Four
SOURCE: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update: Introduction
- Number of children infected with HIV each day: 1,150
SOURCE: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update: Global Summary
- Number of seconds between each new HIV infection worldwide: 12.6 seconds
SOURCE: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update: Global Summary
- Percentage of the population with HIV in the world’s most AIDS-affected countries: more than 20
SOURCE: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic: Executive Summary, 2006
- Number of people infected with HIV in Canada: 58,000
SOURCE: Health Canada, The State of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Canada, 2006
- Number of people who die each day due to AIDS: 5,753
SOURCE: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update: Global Summary
- Amount pledged by Canada to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria 2008-2010: $450 million
SOURCE: Government of Canada, Ministry of Finance Budget 2008
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