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| To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States. |
| 95 percent of all the people who get polio are under the age of 5. |
| HIV/AIDS has created more than 14 million orphans — 92 percent of them live in Africa. |
| 134 million children between the ages of 7 to 18 have never been to school. |
| Girls are more likely to go without schooling than boys — in the Middle East and North Africa, girls are three times more likely than boys to be denied education. |
| For every year of education, wages increase by a worldwide average of 10 percent. |
| Educated mothers tend to send their children to school, helping to break the cycle of poverty. |
| In the last decade, more than 2 million children have died as a direct result of armed conflict. |
| More than 300,000 child soldiers are exploited in armed conflicts in over 30 countries around the world. |
| 2 million children are believed to be exploited through the commercial sex trade. |
| Approximately 246 million children work. |
| 171 million children work in hazardous conditions. |
| There are more than 10 million child refugees around the world, comprising 60% to 70% of the refugee population. Malnutrition, chronic infectious disease, physical and mental retardation are widespread in refugee camps. Many children, often separated from their parents, have spent their whole lives in closed refugee comps, encircled by gun towers and barbed wire. |
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