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Poverty and World Hunger

The international definition of absolute poverty of $1 a day purchasing power parity (PPP). Absolute poverty is extreme poverty where one does not have the ability to obtain the needed food and shelter to survive. Most of those in absolute poverty are children, many of which are orphans with no way to provide for themselves. Help us feed African Children.

In developing countries a large percentage of the household income is spent on food. Many go to bed hungry each night, most of them children.

Unicef says there are 2.2 billion children in the world. 1.9 billion children are living in developing countries with 1 billion of them living in poverty. Poverty deprives them of basic services, like education and health care, which they need to survive, develop and thrive.

	1 in 3 children in developing countries lives without adequate shelter.
	1 in 5 has no access to safe water.
	1 in 7 has no access to health services. (These statistics from Unicef's website.)

Contrast these with the poverty statistics from the US Census Bureau that are listed below.

	The official poverty rate in 2006 was 12.3 percent.
	In 2006, 36.5 million people in the US were in poverty.
	The poverty rate in 2006 was lower than in 1959, the first year for which poverty estimates are available (Figure 3). From the most recent trough in 2000, the rate rose for four consecutive years, from 11.3 percent in 2000 to 12.7 percent in 2004, and then declined to 12.3 percent in 2006.
	For children under 18 years old and people aged 18 to 64, the poverty rates (17.4 percent and 10.8 percent, respectively) and the numbers in poverty (12.8 million and 20.2 million, respectively) remained statistically unchanged from 2005.
	Both the poverty rate and the number in poverty decreased for people aged 65 and older (9.4 percent and 3.4 million in 2006, down from 10.1 percent and 3.6 million in 2005)

The US Census Bureau has official poverty thresholds, some of ones for 2006 are listed below for different household sizes.

	One person $10,294
	Two people $13,167
	There people $16,079
	Four people $20,614
	Five people $24,382

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