1546: Do you have it bad? Try life with no safety net.
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/10/15
3.4 billion people have no safely managed sanitation.
~2.1 billion have no safely managed drinking water.
808 million live on $3 per day.
~736 million women experience violence in their lifetime.
About 300 million across ~72 countries require humanitarian assistance.
~282–283 million experience acute food insecurity.
272 million children and youth are out of school.
230 million or more girls & women are female genital mutilation survivors.
150.2 million children have malnutrition leading to stunting, 42.8 million are wasting, and 12.2 million experience severe wasting from it.
~123 million have been forcibly displaced.
83.4 million are living in internal displacement.
~50 million living under modern slavery.
41,370 grave violations exist against children in armed conflict.
More than 8,900 deaths have occurred on migration routes in 2024.
3,623 incidents of attacks on health care in conflict in 2024.
1,518 executions happened in 2024.
296 internet shutdowns in 2024 against 54 countries.
Was your coffee a little too stale this morning?
Alright, then.
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