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The wealth of the world's richest 200 people increased from US$440 billion to more than $1 trillion between 1994-98. Compare this to the Third World, where 800 million people are suffering from chronic hunger, 840 million adults are illiterate and 2 billion people have no access to electricity.

Mozambique has a per capita GDP of US$84. Switzerland's is $43,400: 516 times higher!

Every year, US$800 billion is spent worldwide on weapons production and troop deployment.

Thirty-six million people are infected with AIDS; 26 million of these live in Africa. Medical treatment for them would cost just $10,000 per person per year.

Developed countries control 97% of all patents in the world.

The number of doctors per 100,000 inhabitants across the Third World is 76. In the poorest countries, it is only 14. But in the advanced capitalist countries, the number is 253.

In mid-1998, the 15% of the world's population which lived in First World countries comprised 88% of internet users. In the US alone, there are more computers than exist in the rest of the world.

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