1) Approximately 9.2 million children under the age of 5 die each year, mostly from preventable diseases. That's approximately 25,000 children each day.
2) 2.5 billion people around the world do not have access to adequate sanitation and about 885 million people do not have access to clean water.
3) Every day, 4100 children die each day from severe diarrhea - as a result of poor sanitation and hygiene.
4) Approximately 600 million children live in extreme poverty.
5) Nearly 11,500 people die every day from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
6) Nearly two-thirds of these people are living in sub-Saharan Africa.
7) 75 million children are out of school around the world, a figure equivalent to the entire primary school-aged population in Europe and North America.
8) 3 billion people live on less than US$2/day.
9) 1.4 billion people live on less than US$1.25/day - the definition of those who live under the condition of "extreme global poverty."
10) More than 1 billion people live on less than $1 a day and more than 2 billion live on less than $2 a day.
11) Americans believe that their government spends 24 percent of the federal budget on aid to poor countries, but the actual figure is less than 1 percent.
12) HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria—all treatable diseases—claim the lives of over 8,000 people every day in Africa due to lack of access to health care.
13) Women in developing countries travel an average of almost four miles each day to collect water.
14) People living in the poorest slums can pay as much as ten times more for water than those in high-income areas of their own cities.
15) According to the U.N., the majority of people in poverty are women, who globally earn roughly half as much as men.
16) Food prices have risen 83 percent since 2005, disproportionately affecting those in poverty who spend a higher percentage of their income on food.
17) In 2005, a conservative estimate stated that 72 million children around the world of elementary school age were not enrolled in school.
18) The richest 20 percent of the world's population receives 75 percent of the world's income, while the poorest 40 percent receive only 5 percent of the world's income.
(Statistics from World Bank and ONE Campaign)
