POVERTY, SLUMS, DISASTERS, DISEASES, DEVPRIATION RIGHTS ABUSE, ILLNESS, ADDICTION.
The Affluent: 9% (wealthy)
The Well-Off: 35% (comfortably Off)
The Just Coping: 10% (scraping by)
The needy: 28% (poor and needy)
The ABSOLUTELY Poor: 18% (destitute)
40% without access to electricity
2.2 billion sick/ill persons (30% children)
3.5 million children die per year from vaccine-preventable diseases
45 million poverty-induced deaths a year
500 million orphans
100 million supported by garbage
120 million street children
500 million on the verge of starvation
2% of the world 90 million barely existing, hanging on by a thread, earning nothing and owning nothing
Source: 2001 World Christian Trends