so the population of the world is nearly 7 billion?

Question

how many of that 7 billion live in extreme poverty????

Answer 1

According to NetAid, over a billion people, or roughly one in six, live in extreme poverty. Extreme poverty is defined as living on less than US$1 a day.

The World Bank goes on to define moderate poverty as basic subsistence living, on $1 to $2 a day. All told, nearly half the world's population lives in poverty -- that's 2.8 billion people living on less than two dollars a day.

Some other facts to keep in mind:
Each year over 8 million people die because they are simply too poor to stay alive.
More than 800 million people go hungry every day.
The gross domestic product of the poorest 48 nations is less than the wealth of the world's three richest people.
Thirty-thousand children die every day due to hunger and treatable illnesses.
6 million children die every year before their fifth birthday, as a result of malnutrition.
You can find detailed poverty assessments of specific geographical regions on the World Bank's PovertyNet. And if you're interested in learning how the World Bank comes up with its poverty statistics, take a look at PovcalNet.

Answer 2

Population:
6,446,131,400 (July 2005 est.)

The World Bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than US$ (PPP) 1 per day, and moderate poverty as less than $2 a day. It has been estimated that in 2001, 1.1 billion people had consumption levels below $1 a day and 2.7 billion lived on less than $2 a day.

Answer 3

Depends what you mean by extreme poverty
africa is the poorest part of the world so poor that the population is actually falling in 1998 estimated at 600 + something million probably less now.
If you take them as extreme poverty about ten percent.

Answer 4

well, like someone else said, it really depends on what you consider extreme poverty to be. to me, around 20% of those people live in extreme poverty.

Answer 5

About 45%.

Answer 6

China, India, and Mexico are squirtin em babies out fast. There are some cool graphs of populations per country by age groups, here let me find some info for you...

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html

China's looks like this
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/idbpyrs.pl?cty=CH&out=s&ymax=250

See how Mexico's is steeper and has more people of a younger generation??

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/idbpyrs.pl?cty=MX&out=s&ymax=250

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Answer 7

A lot.

Answer 8

more than half i think