C C 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Extreme Poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa, Mortality Rate
4 Jan 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Income in these countries is increasingly concentrated in the very top: high income countries : have 15. 5% of world"s population. 75. 8% of the world"s wealth: middle income countries: have 46. 7% of world"s population. Contain 20. 8% of the world"s wealth: low income countries: have 36. 4% of world"s population. Contain: 2011: just over 1200 billionaires in the world, and they collectively had a net worth of . 5 trillion. Only 10 nations in the world have a gross national product that exceeds . 5 trillion: presently have 1. 3 billion people living in extreme poverty (less than. In 1990, 43. 1% of world"s population in extreme poverty. 2008, 22. 4% of world"s population in extreme poverty. Have seen drops in s. asia with the best gains occuring in e. asia: moderate poverty = . 25- a day, refer to conditions of life where basic needs of life are barely met. Life in rich and poor countries: hunger: about of the world"s poor are chronically malnourished.
