Thank you, IMF:

Fun facts:

Breathing the air in Mumbai (Bombay), India is the equivalent of smoking two-and-a-half packs of cigarettes per day.

In 2000, global inequality as measured by World Bank economists reached the GINI coefficient of 0.67 -- the mathematical equivalent of a situation where the poorest two-thirds of the world population receive nothing, while the top third receives everything.

In Nairobi, Kenya, the Laini Saba slum in Kibera in 1998 had ten working pit latrines for 40,000 people, while in Mathare 4A there were two public toilets for 28,000 people.


These and more fun facts like them in Planet of Slums, by Mike Davis, an appalling description of the appalling conditions of the lives of the world's poor. A worthwhile read.