Something to encourage your heart

Things are bad in the world and it feels like it’s getting worse, right?

—Wrong! Step-by-step, year-by-year, things are improving for billions of people worldwide!

1. Over the past 20 years, the proportion of the global population living in extreme poverty has halved. This progress is absolutely revolutionary!
2. The percentage of people worldwide who are undernourished has dropped from 28% (1970) to 11% in (2016).
3. In 1950, the child mortality rate was 15%. (i.e. 97 million children were born and 14.4 million children died.) In 2016, the child mortality rate was down to 3%! (i.e.141 million children were born and 4.2 million died.) So we can rejoice there’s more than 10 million less dead babies per year than a relatively short time ago!
4. Child deaths per thousand in Saudi Arabia have dropped from 242 to 35, in just 33 years. Countries like Sweden took 77 years to reach this same achievement.

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This entry was posted in Humanitarian Aid, International Cooperation by Grant Montgomery.