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Saving Lives Today & Tomorrow

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Figure 8

1.2 billion people will still be without electricity in 2030.

9.6 billion will be the world population by 2050.

47% of world population will be living in areas of high water stress by 2030.

250 million more Africans will live under conditions of severe water stress by 2020.

6.3 billion people will live in urban areas by 2050.

34% of all deaths are caused by infectious disease.

1.22 billion people still live on less than US$1.25 a day.

842 million people – around one in eight people in the world – are estimated to be suffering from chronic hunger.

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