The Reality of India's Channel

There are more poor, destitute and underfed Indians than citizens of any other nation in the world. India has 456 million people or about 42% of the population living below the new international poverty line of $1.25 per day. The number of Indian poor also constitute 33% of the global poor, which is pegged at 1.4 billion people. India also has 828 million people, or 75.6% of the population living below $2 a day. India is home to roughly one-third of all poor people in the world. It also has a higher proportion of its population living on less than $2 per day than even sub-Saharan Africa. India has the highest number of people who defecate in the open. Numbers released in June 2008 by the WHO and UNICEF revealed that 1.2 billion people practice open defecation globally -- 83% of whom live in 13 countries, of course led by the giant shithole India. In sheer numbers, 665 million Indians defecate in the open.

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