Quotes by UNDP

- More than 1.2 billion people - one in every five on Earth - survive on less than $1 a day
- The top 1% of the world’s richest people earn as much as the poorest 57%
- During the 1990s, government development assistance dropped from 0.33% to 0.22% of donor countries’ gross national income. The target is 0.7%
- Of the 49 least developed countries, 31 receive less aid today than they did in 1990.
- The annual dairy subsidy in the EU amounts to $913 per cow per year; EU’s aid to Africa is $8 per African per year

* Only 57% of African children are enrolled in primary education, and only one of three children complete school
* One in six children die before the age of 5. This number is 25 times higher in sub-Saharan Africa than in the OECD countries
* Children account for half of all civilian casualties in wars in Africa

- 315 million people – one in two of people in Sub Saharan Africa survive on less than one dollar per day
- 184 million people – 33% of the African population – suffer from malnutrition
- During the 1990s the average income per capita decreased in 20 African countries
- Less than 50% of Africa’s population has access to hospitals or doctors
- In 2000, 300 million Africans did not have access to safe water
- The average life expectancy in Africa is 41 years