• 65% population live on less than $2 per day

• *food inflation is rising at 24% annually

• 52% population without improved sanitation

• 33% without improved drinking water

• 17% under 5 deaths due to diarrhoea from unsafe drinking water

• 66% under 5’s without malaria nets; 23% under 5 deaths from malaria

• 50% population under 15

• 2,700,000 orphans

• 73% children have anemia; 38% low height

• 70% women felt male violence against them was justified

 

Sources: Population Reference Bureau, Unicef and WHO

 

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