Numbers, faces, and the staggering human cost of poverty today The Scale of the WoundThere is a number that should stop every conversation, halt every meeting, and interrupt every comfortable assumption about the state of the modern world.That number is 700 million.Seven hundred million human beings - men, women, children, grandmothers, infants - who wake up every single day without enough to eat, without clean water, without shelter that can be called safe, without any reasonable expectation that tomorrow will be different from today. Extreme poverty is not randomly distributed. It clusters with devastating precision. Sub-Saharan Africa is home to approximately 60 percent of the world's extremely poor - nearly 430 million people living on a continent of extraordinary natural wealth, fertile soil, and mineral abundance. South Asia accounts for another major share, with India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh together housing hundreds of millions who live in chronic deprivation.
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