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World's Youth Sinking Into Poverty, Disease, Illiteracy


From Volume 3, Issue Number 38 of EIR Online, Published Sep. 21, 2004

World Economic News

World's Youth Sinking Into Poverty, Disease, Illiteracy

The World Bank, which today functions as an enforcer for the IMF system, has set up a program to capture youth into its post-industrial outlook. Reporting that 85% of the world's youth, between 15 and 24 years old, live in the developing countries, the World Bank reports, in its underestimated calculations, that:

* some 238 million youth in the world survive on less than $1 a day;

* some 133 million 15-24-year-olds are illiterate;

* another 130 million children are presently not in school;

* young people represent 41% of those unemployed globally;

* about half of new HIV/AIDS infections worldwide are in youth under 25 years old. Almost 12 million youth already have HIV/AIDS, and in some of the hardest hit countries—which they leave unamed—some 75% of 15 years old are projected to die of AIDS in the future!

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