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(Taken from the
Bread for the World Institute
and the
World Health Organization
)
Today our world houses 6.39 billion people.
The United States is a part of the developed or industrialized world, which consists of about 50 countries with a combined population of 0.9 billion, less than one sixth of the world’s population.
In contrast, approximately 5 billion people live in the developing world. This world is made up of about 125 low and middle-income countries in which people generally have a lower standard of living with access to fewer goods and services than people in high-income countries.
The remaining 0.4 billion live in countries in transition, which include the Baltic states, eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
In 2002, 1.1 billion people lacked access to improved water sources, which represented 17% of the global population.
In the developing world, more than 1.2 billion people currently live below the international poverty line, earning less than $1 per day.