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Of the 49 least developed countries, 31 receive less aid today than they did in 1990.

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The top 1% of the worlds richest people earn as much as the poorest 57%.

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Reaching the Millennium Development Goals depends on many factors, not least political will and money. It is estimated that US $100 billion in assistance a year, at a minimum, will be needed until 2015.

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During the 1990s, government development assistance dropped from 0.33% to 0.22% of donor countries gross national income. The target is 0.7%.

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More than 1.2 billion peopleone in every five on Earthsurvive on less than $1 a day.

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Of the around six billion people in the world, at least 1.2 billion do not have access to safe drinking water.

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In the 1990s, average per capita income growth was less than 3% in 125 developing and transition countries and was negative in 54.

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During the 1990s, the share of people living in extreme poverty fell from 30% to 23%. But as world population increased, the number fell only by 123 million, and if booming China is left out, the number actually increased by 28 million.

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Two-thirds of the worlds 876 million illiterates are women.

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More than 2.4 billion people do not have proper sanitation facilities, and more than 2.2 million people die each year from diseases caused by polluted water and filthy sanitation conditions.