some stats

40 percent of the world's people....2.6 billion people...live on less than $2 a day.

15 percent of the world's people....1.0 billion people...live on less than $1 a day.

0.3 billion people....4.5 percent of the world's people live on $105 a day.*

*this number is based on the average annual income of an American which was $38, 611 per person- * U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis 2008