Giving What We Can - 8 T-Shirt

Giving What We Can If 1% of Westerners did this, extreme poverty really would be history* www.givingwhatwecan.org *The figures for this are as follows: estimate of 1 billion "westerners" in the world, so 1% is 10million. (http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/global-middle-class.html gives 1.8 billion middle class, but this is $10-100 a day. Taking the EU+US is 800mn people, and there must easily be another 200mn as rich in the world) From http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/the-problem/it-can-be-solved.php, we have "how much additional money per year would be needed to meet the most basic needs of those in poverty? According to official estimates from the United Nations Development Program:1 Basic education for all $6 billion Water and sanitation for all $9 billion Basic health and nutrition $13 billion" which is a total of $28 billion a year. The EU27 median income is 14,600 Euro ~$21,000. http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=ilc_di03&lang=en The US median income is $32,140 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States So $28bn/10mn = $2,800 per person per year ~10% of a median "Western income". Still, I'm using extreme poverty as a short hand for "lacking basic education, water and sanitation, and health and nutrition" rather than a strict less than $1.25/day income.