World Issues

Every year 6 to 8 million dogs and cats enter shelters, and 3 to 4 million shelter dogs and cats are killed in the USA alone.

93 million primary-school-age children are not in school.

Last year there were 81 countries around the world that practice torture.

One in six people don't have access to safe, clean drinking water.

Glaciers are melting 10 times faster than previously thought.

More money is spent in New York City's bars in two weeks than studying biodiversity around the world each year.

More than 200 million people have been affected by natural disasters in each of the past 10 years.

Each year 11 million children under the age of 5 die from preventable diseases.

7 out of 10 microentrepreneurs are able to increase their family's food intake.

It would cost just $7 billion to teach every person to read and write, but still one in six is illiterate.

Today, one in seven people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life.

Women do 67% of the world’s work, receive 10% of the world’s income and own 1% of the means of production.

Obesity among 6- to 11-year-old children has risen 54 percent in the past 20 years alone.

Right now 100 million people are homeless.

Millions of people die each year of disease and malnutrition simply because they don’t have access to basic healthcare and nutrition.

A social support system is often the only way a community can help a person in need.

Every day as many as 24 species around the world become extinct.

2.5 million individual plastic water bottles are thrown away every hour in the United States.