Transcript Poverty Quiz - Caritas Australia

Poverty Quiz
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Question 1
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Approximately how many people live in extreme
poverty on less than US$1.25 a day?
A) 200 million
B) 1.3 billion
C) 50 million
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b) 1.3 billion.
The World Bank defines ‘extreme poverty’ as living
on less than the equivalent of US$1 per day, and
‘moderate poverty’ as less than US$2 a day.
Question 2
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How many people suffer from malnutrition?
A) 380 million
B) 680 million
C) 850 million
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c) 850 million
The world produces enough food to feed everyone, yet 850 million
people do not have enough nutritious food to meet their daily needs.
How can we address the unjust structures that fail to distribute the
food effectively?
Question 3
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How many primary school-aged
children are not going to school?
A) 61 million
B) 500 thousand C) 46 million
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a) 61 million
The good news is that the number of children out of school has fallen,
even though there has been an increase in the number of school-aged
children. This means more children are going to school.
Question 4
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How many children die each year
before the age of 5?
A) 27 thousand
B) 7.6 million
C) 27 million
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b) 7.6 million.
The most disturbing news is that the leading causes of childhood
deaths - pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and measles - are all easily
preventable.
Question 5
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How many people have no access to
safe drinking water?
A) 783 million
B) 1.4 billion
C) 550 million
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a) 783 million
In Australia we are fortunate enough to be able simply to turn on a
tap; 783 million other people do not have this luxury. Did you know
that in a country like Fiji, global companies bottle the spring water
to send to places like Australia, yet many people in Fiji do not have
access to an improved water source. This is an injustice.
Question 6
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How many people do not have access
to adequate sanitation?
A) 1 billion
B) 2.5 billion
C) 750 thousand
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b) 2.5 billion
2.5 billion people lack adequate sanitation. If you did not have a
flushing toilet or a pit toilet, what would you use? Probably a plastic
bag, a bucket or a field. Now imagine 2.5 billion people doing the same
thing. Lack of sanitation results in disease, and unfortunately death,
for millions of people throughout the world every year.
Question 7
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How many people do not have
adequate housing?
A) 200 million
B) 750 million
C) 1 billion
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c) 1 billion.
Adequate housing is universally viewed as one of the most basic
human needs. Despite this, the United Nations Centre for Human
Settlements estimates that throughout the world 1 billion people live in
inadequate housing, with in excess of 100 million people living in
conditions classified as homelessness.
Question 8
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According to the World Bank, how many
people live below the poverty line?
(Less than $2 a day)
A) 1.1 billion
B) 2.47 billion
C) 5 billion
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b) 2.47 billion.
Yes, nearly half the population of the developing region live in poverty unable to meet their basic needs.
Question 9
And … Can you name them all?
A) 5
B) 8
C) 10
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How many Millennium Development
Goals are there?
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b) 8
1. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
2. Achieve Universal Primary Education
3. Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
4. Reduce Child Mortality
5. Improve Maternal Health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability
8. Secure a Global Partnership for Development.
Question 10
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What percentage of Gross National Income (GNI)
have rich countries promised to give by 2015?
A) 5%
B) 2%
C) 0.7%
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c) 0.7%.
That is only 70c out of every $100 earned. Currently the Australian
Government has committed to increasing aid to 0.5% by 2015.
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Last updated Mar 2013