Complete the missing words below from the presentation:
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25
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At least 80 percent of humanity lives on less than ten dollars per day.
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24
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To put things into perspective the top 20 percent of the world's population accounts for 3 quarters of the world's income.
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23
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Half the world's population accounts for only 5 percent of the world's income.
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22
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According to UNICEF 22 thousand children die every day due to poverty.
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21
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Nearly one third of children in developing countries are estimated to be underweight or stunted.
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20
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Last year about 70 million children of primary school age were not in school.
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19
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Nearly billion people celebrated the coming up the 21st century without being able to read a book or sign their name.
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18
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Preventable diseases like malaria affect nearly 500 million people per year.
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17
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Africa alone accounts for roughly 1 million deaths due to malaria annually most of them are children.
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16
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Speaking of children there are 2.2 billion children in the world.
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15
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Half of them live in extreme poverty.
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14
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Over one billion people have inadequate access to water and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation - many times this means there's no separation between drinking water and toilet water.
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13
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That’s why 1.8 million children die every year from diarrhea.
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12
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Approximately half the world's population now lives in cities and about one-third of those in the city's live in slum conditions.
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11
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In fact slum growth is outpacing urban growth by a frighteningly large margin.
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10
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One-quarter of humanity lives without electricity.
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9
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The seven richest people in the world make more than the poorest forty-one countries combined that's roughly 567 million people.
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8
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14 percent of the world's population owns over 80 percent of the world's private financial wealth the vast majority has managed to avoid all income and state taxes.
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7
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For every one dollar in a developing country receives over 25 dollars is spent on debt repayment.
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6
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The poorer the country the more likely it is that the debt repayments are being extracted directly from the people
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5
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In 1998 8 billion dollars was spent on cosmetics in the United States.
11 billion dollars was spent on ice cream in the European Union.
17 billion dollars was spent on pet food in Europe and the US.
100 billion dollars was spent on alcohol in Europe.
400 billion dollars was spent on narcotics globally.
780 billion dollars were spent on militaries around the world.
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4
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In the same year 6 billion dollars were spent on achieving basic education for all, 9 billion was spent on basic water and sanitation and 13 billion was spent on basic health and nutrition for all.
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3
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If you're reading this listing you're in the top 30 percent of
the world's population when it comes to poverty and wealth.
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2
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With new technologies we now grow enough food to feed 10 billion people- one-and-a-half times the world's population The problem is that most in the world can't afford to buy that food.
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1
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If the world spent less than 1 percent of what it spends on
weapons all the previously mentioned issues will be fixed.
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