Get the Facts - Children
- There are 100 million street children in the world.
- More than ten million children still die each year from preventable causes. That's 30,000 a day - or one every three seconds.
- 17 million children die of starvation every year.
- One billion lack access to safe drinking water.
- 30 million are not vaccinated and die from diseases that could be prevented.
- Over 150 million still suffer from malnutrition.
- More than 250 million children have to work so their families can eat.
- 125 million children do not go to school - the majority girls.
- 100 million have been orphaned as the result of HIV/AIDS.
- Every year at least half a million children go partially or totally blind because of vitamin A deficiency.
- 1.2 million girls under 18 are trafficked for prostitution each year - with over 1,000,000 children working in the sex trade in Asia alone.
- Some 300,000 children serve as soldiers in conflicts spanning 50 countries.
- Two million children have been killed and six million permanently injured in conflicts in the past ten years.
