December 4, 2004

DISPOSABLE PEOPLE B POPULATION REDUCTION WITHOUT WAR

People who will contribute most heavily

to the Probable Upcoming Decrease in World Population

THOSE WITHOUT SANITATION ^(a)

People:

Number without access to improved sanitation (year 2001) 2,400,000,000

Continents most affected:

Asia:

Where 80 percent of this population lives

Africa:

Where 13 percent of this population lives

THOSE LACKING ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY

People:

Number without electricity (year 2000) 2,000,000,000

Continents most affected:

Electricity Consumption

per capita (kilowatt-hours per year)

(2000)

South Asia 376

Sub-Saharan Africa 457

East Asia and the Pacific 918

For comparison

Norway 24,422

United States 12,331

THE POOR

People:

Number living on $1 a day (year 1999) 1,169,000,000

Areas most affected:

Number living on $1 a day

(1999)

South Asia 488,000,000

Sub-Saharan Africa 315,000,000

East Asia and the Pacific 279,000,000

THOSE LACKING WATER

Water Stress ^(b)

People:

Number living in countries facing water stress

(year 2001) 1,700,000,000

World=s vulnerable areas in terms of water disputes

The Aral Sea region

The Ganges

The Jordan,

The Nile

The Tigris-Euphrates.

Water Quality

People:

Number without access to safe water (year 2001) 1,100,000,000

Continents most affected:

Asia:

Where 65 percent of this population lives

Africa:

Where 28 percent of this population lives

THE URBAN SLUM DWELLERS

People:

Number living in urban slums (year 2001) 924,000,000

Areas most affected:

Slum Dwellers

(2001)

South-Central Asia 262,000,000

East Asia and Oceania 194,000,000

Sub-Saharan Africa 166,000,000

Latin America and the Caribbean 128,000,000

THE HUNGRY

People:

Number who are hungry on any one day (year 2000) 799,000,000

Continents most affected:

Sub-Saharan Africa:

Where 1 in 3 persons goes hungry

South Asia:

Where 1 in 4 persons goes hungry

Areas most affected:

Number who go hungry:

Number Hungry

(2000)

India 233,000,000

Sub-Saharan Africa 183,000,000

China 119,000,000

THOSE NOW BECOMING MORE AUNDEVELOPED@

People:

Number living in countries whose human development

index (HDI)^(c) has decreased between 1990 and 2001 467,300,000

Most populated countries affected:

Population Index % Decrease

(2001) 1990-2001

Asia:

Russian Federation 144,900,000 78 3.7

Ukraine 49,300,000 77 3.9

Africa:

Dem. Rep. Congo 49,800,000 36 13.0

South Africa 44,400,000 68 6.8

Tanzania 35,600,000 40 2.0

Kenya 31,100,000 49 8.6

THE INDEBTED

People:

Number living in countries where the debt is 25 percent

of exports or more (year 2001) 354,300,000

Country=s Debt Service as % of

Population Exports of Goods and Services

(2001) (2001)

Brazil 174,000,000 29

Turkey 69,300,000 25

Colombia 42,800,000 28

Argentina 37,500.000 49

Angola 12,800,000 26

Burundi 6,400,000 36

Sierra Leone 4,600,000 74

Lebanon 3,500,000 41

Uruguay 3,400,000 30

Continents most affected:

Debt Service as % of

Exports of Goods and Services

(2001)

Latin America and the Caribbean 20

South Asia 11

Central Eastern Europe & CIS 10

THOSE WITHOUT ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL DRUGS

People:

People living in countries where more than half the population

does not have sustainable access to affordable essential drugs

(year 1999) 1,560,000,000

Most populated countries affected

Country=s Population

(2001)

India 1,033,000,000

Brazil 174,000,000

Nigeria 118,000,000

Sudan 32,000,000

Kenya 31,000,000

THOSE WITH THE MOST OIL UNDER THEIR GROUND

People:

People living in the six countries with the greatest oil reserves

(year 2002): 143,960,000

Countries most affected:

Country Population Proven Oil Reserves

(2001) (billion barrels)

(2002)

Saudi Arabia 22,800,000 262

Iraq 23,900,000 113

United Arab Emirates 2,900,000 98

Kuwait 2,400,000 97

Iran 67,200,000 90

Venezuela 24,800,000 78

THOSE AFFECTED BY HIV/AIDS

People:

Number infected with HIV (year 2002) 42,000,000

Number of AIDS orphans (year 2002) 13,000,000

Countries most affected:

Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe:

Where 1 in 3 adults is infected

Namibia, South Africa, Zambia:

Where 1 in 5 adults is infected

THE DISPLACED ^(d)

People:

Number of displaced persons (year 2001) 40,000,000

Location of Displacement:

Displaced

(2001)

Displaced within their own country 22,000,000

Seeking asylum in other countries 15,000,000

THE SLAVES

People:

Number in slavery (end of 1990's) 27,000,000

Countries most involved:

India

Number of child slaves 15,000,000

Thailand

Number of enslaved prostitutes 50,000

Mauritania

Brazil

Pakistan

THOSE VULNERABLE TO CLIMATE INSTABILITY

Most populated vulnerable countries:

Country=s Population

(2001)

China 1,285,200,000

India 1,033,400,000

Bangladesh 140,900,000

Philippines 77,200,000

Egypt 69,100,000

Definitions

(a) Sanitation:

The percentage of the population without access to improved sanitation facilities is the percentage without access to adequate excreta disposal facilities, such as a connection to a sewer or septic tank system, a pour-flush latrine, a simple pit latrine or a ventilated improved pit latrine. An excreta disposal system is considered inadequate if it is public (that is, not private or shared) and if it cannot effectively prevent human, animal and insect contact with excreta (UN 2003, p. 357).

(b) Water Stress:

Countries facing water stress are those consuming each year more than 20 percent of their renewable water supply (UN 2003, p. 125).

A composite measure of

Life expectancy at birth

Adult literacy (2/3 weight) and combined primary, secondary and tertiary gross enrolment ratio (1/3 weight)

Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in purchasing power parity (PPP) U.S. dollars (UN 2003, pp. 341 and 356).

(d) The Displaced

Displaced people include refugees, asylum seekers, illegal aliens and unauthorized economic migrants (World Refugee Survey).

References

Those without Sanitation

United Nations Human Development Programme, Human Development Report 2003 B Millennium Development Goals, A Compact among Nations to end Human Poverty, (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.), 2003, pp. 103-104.

Those lacking access to Electricity

UN 2003, pp. 126 and 303.

The Poor

UN 2003, pp. 40-41. Data are for the year 1999.

Those lacking Water

Water Stress:

People:

UN 2003, pp. 10 and 125.

World=s vulnerable areas in terms of water disputes:

Barlow, Maude, and Tony Clarke, Blue Gold B The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World=s Water (The New Press, New York, N.Y.), 2002, p. 6.

Water Quality:

UN 2003, pp. 103-104.

Urban Slum Dwellers

UN 2003, p. 127. Data are for 2001.

The Hungry

UN 2003, pp. 87-88.

Those now becoming more AUndeveloped@

UN 2003, pp. 40, 251-253 and 242-244.

The Indebted

UN 2003, pp. 230-231.

Those without Access to Essential Drugs:

UN 2003, pp. 232-235 and 251-253.

Those with the most Oil under their Ground:

BP, BP Statistical Review of World Energy (BP, London), June 2003, p. 4; reprinted in Michael Klare, Blood and Oil B The Dangers and Consequences of America=s growing Dependence on Imported Petroleum (Metropolitan/ Henry Holt, New York, N.Y.), 2004, p. 19.

Those affected by HIV/AIDS

UN 2003, pp. 41 and 43.

The Displaced

World Refugee Survey, 2002; cited in Peter Phillips, Censored 2004 B The Top 25 Censored Stories (Seven Stories, New York, N.Y.), 2003, pp.77-79.

The Slaves

Bales, Kevin, Disposable People B New Slavery in the Global Economy (University of California, Berkeley, CA), 1999, pp. 43, 237, 240 and Chapters 2-6. Data are for the end of the 1990's.

Those Vulnerable to Climate Instability

Gelbspan, Ross, The Heat is On B The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription (Perseus, Reading, MA), 1998, pp. 12, 113, 115 and 161-162.

UN 2003, p. 124.

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