This article contains a series of statistics related to population, consumption, and gender and reproductive health issues. It is a particularly timely list considering that this fall, the global population reaches 7 billion. Simply by the numbers, the information is rather staggering. See below:
Population, Reproductive Health, Status of Girls and Women
Average births per minute U.S. 6 Average births per minute in developing nations 240 Percent of population under 25 in U.S. 20 Percent of population under 25 in Sub-Saharan Africa 43 Percent of women among the 1.3 billion people globally who live in absolute poverty 70 Percent women contribute to the world’s working hours 66 Percent of world’s income earned by women 10 Percent of the world’s property owned by women less than 1 Percent of girls among the 77 million children globally not attending primary school 60