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living off of 1.25/1.50 dollars a day is called being in extreme poverty.

Living off of 2.50 a day is called average poverty.

Over 805 million people do not have enough food to eat

Hunger is the number one cause of death in the world

1/4 of all people live without electricity

Easily preventable diseases like diarrhea take the lives of 2 million children a year

Every day around 800 woman die from pregnancy related causes

It is estimated that poverty had hit 700 million people in 2015

Over ten percent of the population live off of untreated and dirty water

Unsafe water kills 315,000 children each year

45 percent of death of children is from malnutrition

152 million children world wide are in child labor. 64 million are girls and 88 million are boys.

48 % of all victims of child labor age from 5-11 years old

In 2014 61 million children who were old enough to go to primary school couldn't/didn't enroll

Girls make up 53 percent of the global population of children in schools