Inglés - C1.1 - The state of the world

True or false:The global population is predicted to reach 12 billion by 2100.

True or false: The availability of contraception has had no impact on the global average number of babies per woman.

True or false: Poverty is not a factor in child mortality.

True or false: Less than half of the world's population falls into a middle-income group.

True or false: There are more people living in extreme poverty now than at any time in history.

True or false: Eradicating poverty by 2030 is an unrealistic goal.

True or false: Life expectancy goes down as poverty goes down.

True or false: There were more than 30 wars that killed more than 100,000 people between World War II and 1990.

True or false: Terrorism has decreased in the last few years.

True or false: The global murder rate has increased since 2000.

Global population is predicted to reach 11 billion by 2100, but the rate of increase will slow down due to falling birth rates.
Contraception availability has led to a decline in the global average number of babies per woman from six to as low as two.
Poverty is the biggest factor in child mortality, but 60% of the world now falls into a middle-income group.
11.6% of people still live in conditions of extreme poverty, the smallest amount in history.
Eradicating poverty by 2030 is a realistic goal if the majority of the world's people have money.
Life expectancy goes up as poverty goes down, and birth rates go down because parents can expect their existing children to survive.
Between the end of World War II and 1990, there were 30 wars that killed more than 100,000 people.
Countries are mostly co-existing more peacefully than in the past, but terrorism has shot up in the last few years.
The global murder rate fell slightly from 8 per 100,000 people in 2000 to about 5.3 in 2015.
The world still faces huge problems of our own making, particularly environmental ones like global warming, and wealth and natural resources need to be distributed more fairly.