'- There where 6.3 billions people on Earth in the year 2003 - The richest 1% of adults owned 40% of global assets in the year 2000 - The richest 10% of adults accounted for 85% of the world\'s total - The average American\'s wealth amounted to $144,000 in the year 2000 - The average Indian\'s wealth amounted to $1,100 - USA, Canada, W.Europe, Japan, and Israel showed average personal wealth of more than $50,000 - Pakistan, Vietnam, Cambodia, former Soviet Republics, sub-Saharan Africa showed average personal wealth of under $2,000 - About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes - Today 10% of children in developing countries die before the age of five - The majority of hunger deaths are caused by chronic malnutrition. Families simply cannot get enough to eat. This in turn is caused by extreme poverty - Besides death, chronic malnutrition also causes impaired vision, listlessness, stunted growth, and greatly increased susceptibility to disease - It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition - about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year'
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