How Rich are You?

post Category: Justicia, reflections — pixelus @ 1:45 pm — post
postMay 22, 2007

Thanks to revueltaverde for this post.

This will either make you gloat that you are richer than most of the population of the world, or make you envious that you are poorer than some fortunate people.  Want to know where you stand? Take a look at this site: Global Rich List and enter your annual income to know.

Some facts from this site:

$8 could buy you 15 organic apples OR 25 fruit trees for farmers in Honduras to grow and sell fruit at their local market.

$30 could buy you an ER DVD Boxset OR a First Aid kit for a village in Haiti.

$73 could buy you a new mobile phone OR a new mobile health clinic to care for AIDS orphans in Uganda.

$2400 could buy you a second generation High Definition TV OR schooling for an entire generation of school children in an Angolan village.

DID YOU KNOW..?

Three decades ago, the people in well-to-do countries were 30 times better off than those in countries where the poorest 20 percent of the world’s people live. By 1998, this gap had widened to 82 times.

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  1. daps MonsterID Icon daps on 27.05.2007 at 23:03 (Reply)

    this is something to ponder. :)

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