Children
- One in seven children born in the countries where hunger is most common will die before reaching the age of five. [3]
- Each day more than 30.000 children under age 5 worldwide die of preventable diseases. [5]
- they die from malnutrition, sickness caused by dirty drinking water or bad/non existing sanitation facilities or other poverty related reasons.
- In the year 1998 about 11 million children under age 5 died this way. [4]
- In the year 1998 about 163 million children under age 5 were underweight. [4]
- In the year 1998 about 113 (of 680) million primary school age children were not in school. [5]
- 97% of them in developing countries. [5]
- In the year 2000 about 325 million children were out of school at the primary and secondary levels. [4]
- There are an estimated 300,000 child soldiers worldwide. [5]
- Over 250 million children around the world - in countries rich and poor - work and many of them are at risk from hazardous and exploitative labour. Denied education and trapped in cycles of poverty, their most basic rights, their health and even their lives are in jeopardy. [14]
- 90% of domestic workers, the largest group of child workers in the world, are girls between 12 and 17 years old. [12]