THE HUMAN NEED

All statistics refer to the Decade of Evangelism, 1990-AD 2000. Human figures are for year 2000 unless otherwise stated. Financial figures are for 2001 and are given in USA dollars. Note also that ‘p.a.’ means ‘per annum ’,‘per year ’,‘a year ’,‘each year ’,‘every year’. ‘Median’ corresponds to ‘average’. These terms are used alternately to provide variety. Partial totals may not always add up to global totals or 100.0% because of rounding (e.g., world population is 6.1 billion or 6,055 million, etc.).

THE GLOBAL HUMAN FAMILY

- Population: 6.1 billion people
- Increase: 124.3 million births a year (2.05%p.a.)
- Decrease: 52.7 million deaths a year (0.87%p.a.)
- Increase rate: 71,600,000 people p.a. (1.2%p.a.; 93% of it is in developing countries)
- Average human age: 26.6 years
- Average human life expectancy at birth: 66.5 years
- Average human family size: 4.3 people
- Global production or GWP (Gross World Product): $28.9 trillion p.a.
- Global average production “per capita”: $4,770 p.a. ($397,50 per month; $13,07 per day)

THE SINFUL DIVISION (SOCIAL CLASSES)

THE UPPER CLASSES: 9% of the world (549 million people)

*THE MEGA-RICH: 0.05% of the world population (500 billionaires; 45,500 multimillionaires; 3,000,000 millionaires)
World's richest person: Bill Gates (worth $100 billion, income $1.5 billion p.a.)
*THE RICH: 0, 85% of world (50 million mega-rich hangers-on)
*THE AFFLUENT: 8,1% (wealthy, 494 million well-to-do people)

THE MIDDLE CLASSES: 45% of the world (2.745 billion people)

*THE WELL-OFF: 10% (610 million comfortably-off people)
*THE JUST COPING: 35% (2.135 billion scraping by)

THE LOWER CLASS: 46%of world (the “poor”, 2.806 billion people)
Total income of this 46% of world: $900 billion p.a. (3%of GWP)

*THE NEEDY: 26% (poor and needy)
*THE ABSOLUTELY POOR: 18% (destitute, living in abject misery)
*THE MEGA-POOR: 2%of world (those barely existing, hanging on by a thread, earning and owning nothing)

THE CLASSLESS: 1% of the world (the dead, 45 million people a year suffering poverty-induced deaths)

*LEADING CAUSES OF 52.7 MILLION DEAHS P.A.:
- Parasitic diseases: 19.0 million
- Circulatory diseases: 15.3 million
- Cancer: 6.2 million
- Cardiovascular disease: 5.8 million
- Perinatal (childbirth) diseases: 3.5 million
- Injury and poisoning: 2.7 million

THE GLOBAL HUMAN NEED (BASIC RIGHTS DENIED: FOOD, WATER, HEALTH, SHELTER, FAMILY CARE, WORK, AND EDUCATION)

- 2.8 billion poor (46%of world)
- 1.4 billion urban poor (1.1 billion in Third World)
- 1.09 billion absolutely poor (in absolute poverty; 18 % of the world)
- Poorest 20%of world gets 1.0%of GWP

Food:

- 50 countries with average less calories supply than essential (2,600 per capita per day)
- 2 billion undernourished
- 2 billion suffering from iron-deficiency anemia
- 700 million iron-deficiency anemic women
- 1.5 billion without money to buy food
- 1.2 billion hungry (inadequate food for active working life)
- 700 million severely malnourished
- 500 million on verge of starvation
- 22 million starvation-related deaths p.a.
- 15 million babies born malnourished p.a.
- 18 million annual hunger-related deaths of children under 5-years-old

Water:

- 2.2 billion without safe water to drink
- 3.0 billion without adequate safe water supply
- 3.0 billion with unsafe water and bad sanitation
- 25,000 a day killed by dirty water

Health:

- 1.5 billion with no access to medical care

Physical handicaps

-1 billion disabled (handicapped)
- 340 million handicapped children
- 100 million severely handicapped children

- 1 billion experiencing chronic pain
- 350 million arthritics

- 49 million legally blind
- 19.3 million totally blind (non-sighted)
- 20 million with river blindness (100 million at risk)

- 365 million partially deaf (hearing-impaired)
- 150 million severely deaf
- 23 million totally deaf
- 11.6 million dumb (deaf-mutes)
- 300 million with language handicaps

- 116 million with chemosensory (taste and smell) disorders

- 3.5 million persons worldwide with artificial implants (pacemakers, prostheses)
- 350,000 persons kept alive by artificial kidneys

- 65,000 organ transplants a year
- 3,500 heart transplants a year
- 75,000 awaiting organ donors

Genetic Disorders

- 30 million epileptics
- 3.4 million dwarfs (little people)
- 524,000 albinos (homozygous people)
- 100 million albino-gene carriers
- 303,000 hemophiliacs (all males)
- 150 million severely mentally retarded
- 256,000 Downs-syndrome (mongoloid) births p.a.

Physical Illness

- 2.2 billion sick/ill persons (30%children)
- Labor absenteeism caused by illness/disease: U$ 7 billion p.a.

The greatest victims

- Maternal mortality (Death at childbirth): 600,000 p.a.
- Infant mortality (deaths under 1 year old): 6,413,800 (51.6 per 1000 live births)
- 4 million children die of pneumonia p.a.
- 2.5 million diarrheal deaths of children under 5 p.a.
- 3.5 million children die p.a. from vaccine-preventable diseases
- 6 infectious diseases kill 5 million non-immunized children p.a.
- 4 billion persons not immunized

Endemic diseases

-3.2 billion live at risk of malaria
- 450 million new malaria cases p.a.
- 2.7 million malaria deaths p.a.

-314 million with elephantiasis
- 250 million with schistosomosis (700 million at risk)
-11.5 million with dracunculiasis
- 19.2 million Hansen disease (leprosy) sufferers (lepers)
- 145 million diabetics
- 10 million with Parkinson ’s disease
- 10 million with tuberculosis (TB: 2.9 million deaths p.a.)

Sexual diseases

- 325 million DST carriers
- 41 million AIDS carriers (growth rate 25%p.a.)
- 5 million AIDS cases
- 2.5 million AIDS-related deaths a year

- 1.2 million a year bitten by venomous snakes
- 50,000 deaths p.a. from venomous snakebites

Mental Illness

- 1 billion psycho-neurotics
- 60 million psychotics
- 15 million schizophrenics
- 500,000 suicides a year

Chemical addiction

- 700 million tobacco smokers
- 3 million tobacco-related deaths p.a.
- 198 million alcoholics
- 64 million drug addicts (illicit drug users)

Shelter:

- 1.3 billion without adequate shelter
- 150 million with no shelter whatsoever
- 700 million slum dwellers or shanty-dwellers
- 80 million new slum dwellers p.a.
- 55 million cave dwellers
- 1.5 billion with scarce firewood
- 1.4 billion without adequate daily clothing
- 40%without access to electricity
- 43%without telephone access
- 43.5%without radio or TV

Family Care:

- 500 million orphans
- 349 million homeless/family-less children
- 120 million mega-city street children
- 70 million abandoned children and infants

Work:

- 1.1 billion urban part-time street vendors
- 1.0 billion unemployed workers
- 900 million underemployed labor
- 200 million kids in exploited child labor
- 100 million supported by garbage collection/recycling
- 93 million beggars
- 35 million slaves (bought and sold, including bonded labor, involuntary servitude)
- 24 million prostitutes (9%male)
- Working-age population increase: 70 million more p.a.

Education:

- 1 billion orate (non-reader) adults, unable to read or write (25%)
- 991 million illiterate/non-literate adults (23.3%)
- 940 million with little or no access to schools
- 850 million uneducated (no past schooling)
- 10 million more illiterate adults p.a.

- 1.4 billion school-age children (ages 6-17) (67%of those eligible)
- 670 million school-agers not in schools
- 340 million with no access to schools (24%)
- 28 million children reach school age p.a.

THE COST OF A SOLUTION:

- Money needed to provide those in poverty with adequate food, water, education, health: $ 700 billion p.a.


THE GLOBAL HUMAN OPRESSION (LACK OF BASIC SOCIOPOLITICAL RIGHTS WORLDWIDE)

- Human rights severely violated in 45% of all countries
- 4.2 billion denied full political freedom and civil rights (1989)
- 4 billion unprotected from human rights abuses
- 2.8 billion women denied full rights and equality
- 2.2 billion denied freedom of religion
- 2.2 billion in countries frequently employing torture
- 1.2 billion victims of endemic government corruption
- Communist nomenklatura: 50 million members (1989)
- 154 countries not controlled by popular votes (1989)
- 2.8 billion disenfranchised (no control by vote,1989; 54%of world)

Lack of fundamental freedoms:
(Data for 1989 – Better now in Russia and Eastern Europe countries, but not yet in China, Cuba, and most Asian and African countries. Worsening in western countries since September 11, 2001))

- 4 billion denied freedom to travel abroad.
- 3 billion denied freedom to travel in own country.
- 3 billion denied freedom to assemble.
- 3 billion denied freedom to teach ideas

3.7 billion without political freedom (1989)
- 2.40 billion in secular countries
- 1.96 billion in religious countries
- 1.5 billion under atheistic regimes (1989)
- 400 million under oppressive regimes (1989)
- 80 million under racist regimes

39 million displaced people

- 10 million stateless people (with no nationality)
- 14 million deportees (people expelled from their homes) p.a.
- 15 million permanently unsettled refugees

-29 million emigrants/immigrants p.a.

Prisons

- 120 million prisoners in 12-month period
- 4.5 million political prisoners
- 1.2 million prisoners due to religion
- 1 million prisoners of conscience
- 120,000 prisoners being tortured

The killing fields

- 151 million citizens killed by their own governments since 1900
- 1,692,400 political executions,1948-1977
- 50,000 executed by governments each year

Crime

- 594 million victims of crime p.a.
- 975,000 murders a year
- 5.8 million child victims of pedophile racketeers p.a.
- 25 million child-abuse incidents p.a.
- 250 million persons sexually abused in childhood

Disasters

- 1.5 million killed in man-made disasters p.a.
- Traffic deaths: 3 persons per 100 million vehicle/miles

THE GLOBAL HUMAN PLUNDERING (ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS CAUSED OR AGGRAVATED BY MAN)

- 11.6 million environmental refugees
- 300,000 environmental disaster victims p.a.

- 1,165,200 more desertification victims a year
- 1.0 billion at risk through desertification

- 800 million live in areas with unhealthy air
- 25,000 pollution-related deaths a day

- 1 million poisoned by pesticides p.a.
- Food and property destroyed by rats: $400 billion p.a.

- 1,900 major earthquakes, 1900-2000,killing 2.1 million
- 21,000 earthquake victims (deaths) a year

- 800 major floods since 1960, killing 400,000
- 12,000 flood victims (deaths) a year

- 300 major cyclones, since 1960,killing 750,000

THE GLOBAL HUMAN SIN (ECONOMICAL COST OF EVIL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRUCTURES)

Total cost of all organized “structures of sin ”:
$9.250 trillion p.a. (32%of the world’s GWP)

Warmongering: $ 1. 391 trillion

- Military spending: $1 trillion p.a.
- Military R&D: $80 billion p.a.
- Electronic warfare $5.8 billion p.a.
- Arms black market: $5.8 billion p.a.

Intemperance: $2,159 trillion

- Absenteeism at work: $869 billion p.a.
- Betting and gambling: $815 billion p.a.
- Tobacco $300 billion p.a.
- Advertising: $150 billion p.a.
- Pornography $25 billion p.a.

All varieties of crime: $5.7 trillion p.a.

- Financial crime: $3 trillion p.a.
- Financial fraud: $932 billion p.a.
- Organized crime $750 billion p.a.
- Tax cheating: $250 billion p.a.
- Drug traffic $200 billion p.a.
- Shoplifting: $100 billion p.a.
- Computer crime: $51 billion p.a.

THE SHAKE-UP: Unpayable Third-World debt: annual drain (debt servicing) of $100 billion p.a. on $1.4 trillion debt.
THE THEFT: Third-World elites own $1.5 trillion in Western banks.

©2001 World Christian Trends, William Carey Library, David Barrett &Todd Johnson