Global Poverty Quiz {question 5}

5. Out of the world's 1.5 billion people living in poverty how many are women?
15%
30%
50%
70%

Answer: 70%. Almost 3/4 of the poor people in the world are women.


Related to this,
How much of the land in the world is owned by women?
1%
10%
25%
50%

Answer: Women own and control only 1% of the land on this earth.

[Source: the New Internationalist magazine's Poverty issue.]


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