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• 8 million people around the world die each year because they are too poor to stay alive.
• 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.
• 850 million people in the world suffer from chronic hunger.
• Between 3 and 4 billion people live on less than $2 per day.
• 100 million children are currently at risk of being stunted by malnutrition.
• Nearly 2 million children die each year from diarrhea.
• 2.6 billion people lack basic sanitation.
• 44% of the African population lives in extreme poverty on less than one dollar a day.
• Total population of Africa is 922 million (2005)
• 15,000 Africans die each day of preventable, treatable diseases (malaria, TB, etc).
• Between 1 and 3 million African children die from malaria each year.
• 200,000 children from West and Central Africa are sold into slavery every year.
• At least 80% of the poor in Africa do not have access to financial services.

Average annual income per person (as of 2006):

Burundi - $110.00 - (30 cents per day)
Congo - $140.00 – (38 cents per day)
Malawi - $250.00 - (68 cents per day)
Uganda – $340.00 - (93 cents per day)
Cameroon –$1050.00– ($2.88 per day)
USA - $43,462 – ($119.00 per day)