Facts in category: Statistics
| Over 100 million children throughout the world are forced to work under hazardous and often fatal conditions; many are employed under slave - like conditions for no pay. |
| Each year at least 250,000 young children lose their sight for the lack of a small amount of vitamin A in their diet. Two 2 cent doses of vitamin A could prevent this. |
| Breast feeding is on the decline in many developing countries although bottle-fed infants contract far more illnesses and are as much as 25 times more likely to die in childhood than infants who are exclusively breast fed. |
| Half a million mothers die annually as a result of pregnancy or childbirth. |
| Only half the children in the developing world have access to clean drinking water, and fewer have access to sanitary waste facilities. |
| Nearly 100 million children of primary school age are not taking part in any education programs. |
| Universal access to just four low-cost health care measures could save the lives of half of the 15-18 million children who die each year from preventable causes. Nearly 8,000 children are dying each day because they have not been immunized; nearly 7000 are dying from dehydration caused by diarrhoea, and approximately 6000 are dying every day from pneumonia, Making available today's low cost solutions to all of there child health problems would cost approximately $2.5 billion a year. This is as much as the 10% of the EEC's annual subsidy to farmers, as much as the Soviet Union spends on vodka in a month or U.S. companies spend on cigarette advertising yearly. $2.5 billion is as much as 2% of the developing world's military spending and what the world spends on the military in one day. |
| 40,000 children under the age of five die each day from malnutrition and vaccine preventable disease. |
| A 12 oz. beer has fewer calories than two slices of bread and contains no fat. |
| In the US, a barrel contains 31 gallons of beer compared to 36 in the UK. |
| 2 out of 3 foreign visitors prefer British pubs to their own local bars. |
| Earth is the only planet in the Solar System to have water in its three states of matter: as a solid (ice), a liquid (sea, rain, etc.) and as a gas (clouds). |
| Earth is composed of three layers: a core, a mantle, and an outer crust. The core is composed of two parts: an inner core of solid iron and nickle (2,600 km in diamter), and an outer core made of molten iron and nickle (2,250 km thick). The mantle is partially molten liquid (2,900 km thick). The crust (8 to 40 km thick) is composed of over twenty plates that float on top of the hot mantle. The motion of these plates is called tectonic drift. Tectonic drift is responsible for seafloor spreading and continental drift. |
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