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OUR WORLD: GLOBAL PERCENTAGES
The developing world has:

75% of the world's people

11% of the world's education

8% of the world's industry

30%
of the world's grain

6%
of the global health expenditure


5%
of the world's science and technology

15% of the world's energy consumption

18% of the world's export earnings

17%
of the global Gross National Product

Of the total world population:

6% live to age 74

29% die before age 50

6% live in North America

50% have access to safe water

30% know how to read

20% never attend school


1%
go to college

55% earn less than $600 annually

29% live in safe, sturdy houses

34% suffer some nutritional deficiency

3% control 80% of the farmland

25% are Chinese

11% are African

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