• Total number of children: 2.2 billion.
  Children in poverty: over 1 billion.
  
  
• Children in developing countries without toilets at home: 1 in 3; without safe water: 1 in 5; and without health care: 1 in 7.
  
  
• Children under five who die of mostly preventable deaths each day: 29,158.
  Total child deaths in 2003: 10.6 million.
  
  
• Life expectancy for a child born in Japan : 82. In Zambia, 33.
  
  
• Percentage of infants with low birthweight in Sudan: 31. In the Republic of Korea: 4.
  
  
• Children born in Canada in 2003: 319,000.
  Children killed in Rwanda in 90 days in 1994: 300,000.
  
  
• Proportion of child deaths in the 3.6 million killed in conflict since 1990: 45 per cent.
  
  
• Estimated rise in under-five death rate during “typical” five-year war: 13 per cent.
  
  
• Children in Belgium: 2 million.
  Children exploited in commercial sex industry: 2 million.
  
  
• Cost of producing a landmine: as low as US$3.
  Cost of clearing a landmine: up to US$1,000.
  
  
• Estimated new HIV infections in 2003: 5 million.
  Infections among under-25s: over 2.5 million.
  
  
• Number of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS: 15 million.
  Of them, proportion who live in sub-Saharan Africa: 8 out of 10.
  
  
• Proportion of people with HIV/AIDS living in developing countries: over 90 per cent.
  Of them, proportion who need ARV treatment but do not have access: 93 per cent.
  
  
• Telephones per 100 people in Sweden : 162. In Bangladesh, one.
  
  
• Percentage of central government spending on health in industrialized countries: 15.
  In East Asia and the Pacific: 1 per cent.
  
  
• Global military spending 2003: 956 billion.
  Estimated additional annual cost for financing the MDGs: $40- $70 billion.
  
  
• Countries that have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child: 192.
  Countries that have not: 2.