A man queuing for food in Somalia. (EFE)
- United Nations and the University of Oxford published reports on poverty in the world
- front of the list annual world's richest people published by Forbes, the United Nations and Oxford University have their own indexes of poverty in the world.
CARDINAL ALFONSO
The man is fascinated by the wealth, power and fame, Forbes magazine annually publishes a list of the richest people in the world, business, leaders and entrepreneurs who have amassed fortunes in some cases exceed the total wealth of entire countries. Carlos Slim has never again leading the list with assets valued at 74,000 million dollars, but who are the poorest in the world? This question is not answer a list of names, if the rich list has a ranking posts, the poor covering entire countries where almost all have next to nothing.
Saharan Africa is the world's poorest region, followed by South Asia, according to a new way of measuring the development of the countries created by the University of Oxford with the support of the United Nations. Together they created MPI, Multidimensional Index of Poverty.
This new index complements from 2010 to the Human Poverty Index which published the United Nations and serves several foci: education, health and living conditions. Within education are measured years of schooling and school attendance, health are cared for child mortality, nutrition and living conditions indicate access to electricity or clean water, among other things.
Human Development Index Human Nations published in 2010 offers a slightly different classification to measure different aspects. The HDI provides an index obtained from the calculation of mean expected of life, the years of schooling and per capita Gross National Income. According to their data, among the countries listed in the index appear as the least developed Zimbabwe, Congo, Niger, Burundi, Mozambique, Guinea, Chad, Liberia, Burkina Faso and Mali
According to the study from the University of Oxford these are the ten poorest countries in the world. Niger
The 92.7% live in absolute poverty and 65.9% live on less than $ 1.25 a day. In Niger, 89.5% have no access to health
Ethiopia
The situation of the second most populous country in Africa is alarming. 90% of the population lives in poverty, 39% have less than 1.25% dollars per day. A black future for a country where 61% of children lack access to schooling.
Mali is the seventh largest country in Africa and its population is estimated at about 12,000,000 inhabitants. Mali's population is predominantly rural (68%), and between 5% and 10% are nomadic. 87.1% of the population lives in poverty and 36% are deprived of electricity. Burkina Faso
This former French colony is a border of Mali and Niger is one of the regions poverty-stricken. More than half the country lives on less than $ 1.25 a day, 35% lack the necessary nutrition and lack of education affects 55%.
Burundi Burundi has the second lowest GDP per capita in the world by the World Bank, a major problem with AIDS and extreme poverty that affects nearly all of its eight million people with some horrifying statistics, 84 % of the population lives below the poverty line, 81% live less than a dollar and half a day and 93% live on less than two.
Somalia civil war that divided the country into small states in fact has hindered the development of a country where 81% live in poverty, and 70% of the population lacks access to sanitation and drinking water. Central African Republic
This former French colony is located in the heart of Africa. It has about 5 million inhabitants with an average of more than four children per woman is estimated that over 10% of the population is infected with AIDS in a country where 86% of the population lives in poverty and 82 % lack electricity. Liberia
The two civil wars fought since 1989 have been sentenced to this country where 84% live in poverty, 16% remaining 83% live on less than 1.25
Guinea and Sierra Leone
Guinea and Sierra Leone live in 82 and 81% of poverty in Guinea, 54% lack access to education and 53.3% Somalia lacks regular access to drinking water.
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