Definitions
- Poverty in its simplest form is the lack of the basics required for quality of life. These basics begin with food, clothing, shelter, and clean drinking water.
- the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support
- The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts.
Destribution of poverty
Roughly 1.1 billion people currently live on less than US$1 per day. Definitions and measures of poverty, however, can extend beyond a lack of monetary or material resources to include indicators of health, education, psychological suffering, empowerment, and environmental stability.
- Almost two in three people lacking access to clean water survive on less than $2 a day, with one in three living on less than $1 a day.
- More than 660 million people without sanitation live on less than $2 a day, and more than 385 million on less than $1 a day.
- 1.8 billion people who have access to a water source within 1 kilometre, but not in their house or yard, consume around 20 litres per day. In the United Kingdom the average person uses more than 50 litres of water a day flushing toilets (where average daily water usage is about 150 liters a day. The highest average water use in the world is in the US, at 600 liters day.)
- Some 1.8 million child deaths each year as a result of diarrhoea
Causes of poverty
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