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# of people living under the internation poverty line of $1.25 a day went from 1.8 billion (46 percent poverty rate) in 1990 to 1.4 billion (27 percent poverty rate) in 2005.
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Proportion of underweight children under 5 has dropped from 31% to 26% in developing regions.
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Nearly a billion people were unable to read or write at the turn of the century.
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1% of what the world spends yearly on weapons was needed to put children in schools, and it didnt happen.
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About 72 million children in developing countries were not enrolled in school when they should be.
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! out of 3 people living in urban areas live in slum conditions.
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Estimated 64 million more people in extreme poverty
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Poverty rates are expected to fall to 5% in China, and 24% in India