Income is very unequally distrbuted among people around the world. In the year 2000, the richest 20% of people owned 74% of the world's income. More than 1 billion people lived on less than $1 per day, but the world is moving toward our goal of cutting global poverty in half by 2015.
Two-thirds of the people living in Africa and almost a quarter of people living in Asia are poor by global standards. Income effects how people live in very real ways. Almost 20% of children born in Afric south of the Sahara Desert will die before their first birthday, partly because of poverty. But knowing something about it is the beginning of helping to do something about it.
This activity looks at the differences between how people live all over the world and how we measure human development. People all around the world are working togeher to help everyone toward a better life.
