Facts, In the world: 11 million children die before they reach their 5th birthday

FACTS

In the world:

• Every 3.5 seconds someone dies of hunger.
• Every 11 seconds someone dies of AIDS.
• Every 15 seconds a child dies from a waterborne illness.
• 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS.
• 1 billion have no access to clean water.
• 2.6 billion live without basic sanitation.
• 5 million live in refugee camps.
• 1.08 billion live on $1 or less per day.
• 11 million children die before they reach their 5th birthday. That's as if every child under five living in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany were to die in a single year.
• Enough food is produced to feed everyone.

Every year more than 16 million people - the equivalent of one hundred 747 jets crashing every day of the year - die from:

• Hunger 9,125,000
• HIV/AIDS 2,900,000
• Pneumonia 2,000,000
• Diarrhea 1,600,000
• Malaria 1,000,000

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