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Facts About Children, Diarrhoea, Water, Women, Hunger ...
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  • ORT now helps save more than 1 million children's lives each year.
     
  • Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) a simple, cost-effective treatment given at home using either packets of Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS), costing about 10 cents each or a simple home solution of sugar, salt and water can prevent about 90% of child deaths from diarrhoeal dehydration.
      
  • Dehydration caused by diarrhoea is the biggest single killer of children in the modern world and diarrhoea itself is one of the major causes of nutritional loss and poor growth. 
      
  • UNICEF and its partners have helped more than 45 countries to achieve treating 80% of child diarrhoea cases with ORT.
     
  • The infant mortality rate fell about 3% a year from 1950 to 1991. Prime reasons, according to the National Center for Health Statistics: fewer deaths from pneumonia and influenza, respiratory distress syndrome, prematurity and low birthweight, birth defects and accidents.
     
  • 61 nations are set to double their populations in one generation, between 1990 and 2025.


 

Cartograms - Images of the social and economic world Cartograms - Images of the Social and Economic World

On a regular map, the sizes of the countries of the world are in proportion to their actual sizes on the surface of the planet and their shapes are the same as their actual shapes. Here are redrawn maps with the sizes of countries made bigger or smaller in order to represent something of interest. Such maps are called cartograms and can be an effective and natural way of portraying geographic or social data. Here are some examples of Population, Gross domestic product, Child mortality, People living with HIV/AIDS, Total spending on healthcare, Energy consumption (including oil), and Greenhouse gas emissions.

Millennium Development Goals

 

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  Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  5   The prevalence of underweight children under-five in the developing world has declined

by 5 percentage points between 1990 and 2006.

 
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  1 in 4   Around 1 in 4 children under five in the developing world are underweight
 
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  1 in 2   Approximately 1 in 2 underweight children in the developing world live in South Asia
 
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  980 million   The number of people living in developing countries living on less than $1 a day
 
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  16%   The proportion of infants in developing countries who are born weighing less than 2,500 grams
 
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  Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education
  101 million   The number of children of primary school age who are out of school was 101 million in 2007
 
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  85   Globally, the proportion of primary-school-age children who attend school is 85 percent
 
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  30%   The proportion of children in sub-Saharan Africa of primary school age not in school
 
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  2 million   The number of children of primary school age not in school in 2005
 
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  93 million   The number of children of primary school age who are out of school
 
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  Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower women
  1 in 3    About 1 in 3 of countries achieved gender parity in secondary education by 2005.
 
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  1 of 3   About one of three countries achieved gender parity in secondary education by 2005.
 
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  2 of 3   About two of three countries and territories worldwide reached gender parity in primary education by the target year of 2005
 
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  17%   The proportion of women who represent single and lower houses of parliament as
of January 2007
 
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  60%   The proportion of unpaid family workers globally who are women
 
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  Goal 4 Reduce child mortality
  57    In the developing world (excluding China), 57 percent of children with pneumonia are
taken to an appropriate health-care provider.
 
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  107    Worldwide, the under-five mortality rate was 107 in the poorest 60 percent
households from 1998-2006, as compared to 67 in the richest 40 percent.
 
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  38   Children under-five with diarrhoea in sub-Saharan Africa receiving the recommended
treatment increased from 32 per cent in 2000 to 38 per cent in 2008.
 
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  32   The number of priority countries that reported on having achieved 80 per cent
vitamin A coverage with two doses totaled 32 in 2007.
 
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  1 in 5   Nearly 1 in 5 child deaths globally are as a result of pneumonia
 
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  Goal 5 Improve maternal health
  84    Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia accounted for 84 per cent of global maternal deaths in 2005.
 
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  920   Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest maternal mortality rate at 920 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.
 
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  61   The overall percentage of births in developing countries attended by skilled health personnel is 61%
 
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  6 in 10   Six in 10 births worldwide are attended by skilled health personnel
 
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  34   The proportion of pregnant women in South Asia who received antenatal care at least four times is 34 percent
 
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  Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  10    The vast majority of children living with HIV are in 10 countries that also comprise more than 60 per cent of pregnant women living with HIV.
 
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  150 million   More than 150 million insecticide-treated nets were delivered to African countries during 2004–2008.
 
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  3   The number of insecticide-treated mosquito nets produced worldwide has gone up more than three-fold from 2004 to 2007
 
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  2 million   The number of children under 15 years living with HIV as of 2007 was 2 million
 
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  2.6   The number of children under 15 years globally who were receiving antiretroviral therapy increased 2.6-fold between 2005 and 2007
 
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  Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability
  36%   The proportion of the world’s forests which largely remain undisturbed by human activity
 
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  1 of 3   The proportion of urban dwellers who are living in slums
 
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  1.1 billion   The number of people who need to be reached with improved sources of drinking water by 2015 to meet the MDG target
 
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  2.6 billion   The number of people who did not use improved sanitation facilities in 2004
 
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  4 of 10   The number of people globally lacking access to improved sanitation facility
 
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  Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for development
  15%   The proportion of the world’s population who were using the internet by the end of 2005
 
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  2.2 billion   The number of mobile subscribers worldwide in 2005 – up from 11 million in 1990
 
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  86 million   The number of jobless youth worldwide in 2006
 
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  $106 billion   The amount in US dollars of aid to developing countries in 2005
 
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  7%   The proportion of the population with Internet access in developing regions in 2004 compared to over 50% in developed regions
 
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  A World Fit for Children
  34    As of 2007, 34 developing countries had reached the universal salt iodization target.
 
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  1 in 6   One in six children in developing countries is engaged in child labour.
 
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  10   Of the world’s 24 million children not immunized with DPT3, 17.5 million live in 10 countries.
 
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  1 in 3  One in three developing countries has birth registration rates of less than 50 per cent.
 
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  58   The percentage of children of secondary school age worldwide who attend secondary
school is 58.
 
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