Statistics, also courtesy of the United Nations, just from one poor country, Mozambique describe what poverty means in numbers. The World Health Organisation says that most of these deaths could be easily prevented. In 1994, for every 1000 students that started grade 1, only 250 managed to complete grade 5, and only 67 of these did so without repeating. The majority of primary schools run 2 shifts of students, and a large portion of these run 3 shifts, in an attempt to give everyone a chance at going to school. The average number of contact hours per day per student is less than 3.5.
Many people have to survive on less than a dollar a day.