Here are 50 facts worth knowing concerning our world, will they make us want to change it?
1 THE average Japanese woman can expect to live to 84; her counterpart in Botswana will die at 39.
2 BLACK men born in the US stand a one-in-three chance of going to jail. For white men the odds are one in 17.
3 ONE in five of the world’s population – 1.25 billion people – is undernourished.
4 NEARLY half of British 15-year-olds have tried illegal drugs and nearly a quarter are regular cigarette smokers.
5 CHILDREN living in poverty are three times more likely to suffer mental illness than children from wealthy families.
