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Global Opportunities

    Our project leaders are equipped with skills to exeget situations and develop strategic level solutions for relevant cultural engagement.  An aspect of exegeting culture is utilizing good data.  We rely on the latest data from the United Nations as well as in-country data from our field research.

  • A projected 920 million will live under the international poverty line ($1.25 per day) by 2015
    • 1.4 billion people continue to live in extreme poverty
    • The average daily income of the poor in 2005 was $0.88 
  • Global unemployment could 6.6% in 2009
    • Vulnerable employment rate for 2009 was between 49-53 percent of the global workforce (1.5-1.6 billion people)
  • Child mortality rate for 1990 was 12.5 million and in 2008 it was 8.8 million
    • 1/3 caused by under-nutrition
    • One in 7 children in Sub-Sahara Africa die before the age of five
    • 43 percent of child deaths were caused by preventable disease
    • 26 percent of children under five are underweight
  • 42 million displaced persons
    • 27.1 million internally displace persons
    • 15.2 million refugees
  • World’s population of undernourished could exceed 1 billion in 2009
    • Between 2005-2007 ca. 830 million people were undernourished
  • In 2008 there were 69 million out of school children 
  • In 2008 there were an estimated 2.7 million new HIV cases and 2 million AIDS-related deaths
    • 72 percent of new cases occurred in sub-Sahara Africa
    • 33.4 million people living with HIV
    • 17.5 million children world-wide lost a parent to AIDS in 2008
  • Half of the world’s population is at risk of malaria
    • Estimated 243 million new cases in 2008
    • nearly 863,000 people died of malaria in 2008
  • 9.4 million new cases of TB in 2008
  • 8 out of 10 people are still without access to an improved drinking water source
  • In 2008, an estimated 2.6 billion people lacked access to improved sanitation
    • Open defecation is practiced by 1.1 billion people
  • 33 percent of urban dwellers live in slums, a decline from 39 percent in 2000
    • 828 million people currently live in slum conditions (657 million in 1990 and 767 million in 2000)
 
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