Sentences with phrase «worldwide lack access»

Over one billion people worldwide lack access to clean water, that is approximately one in six people on earth.

All told, nearly one billion people worldwide lack access to such safe drinking water — a long - standing humanitarian crisis.

One in nine people worldwide lacks access to safe drinking water.

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ONE IN SIX PEOPLE lacks access to clean water worldwide, making diarrheal illness — a direct result of poor sanitation — the leading cause of death globally.

«In many developing countries, the median life expectancy for hemophilia patients is 11 years due to the lack of access to treatment, but our new oral delivery of factor IX can now overcome these issues and improve the worldwide use of this therapy.»

Mmantsetsa Marope, director of UNESCO's International Bureau of Education, highlighted just recently in a 2017 report that 263 million young people lack access to education worldwide and for many more, the quality of education they can access is not of the standard it needs to be.

As noted in the 2014 report, energy poverty remains a major global issue, as approximately 1.1 billion people still lack access to electricity worldwide.

While there are about 274 million households worldwide that lack access to electricity, Mills» study focuses on the «poorest of the poor,» or about 112 million households, largely in Africa and Asia, that can not afford even a mini solar home system, which might power a fan, a few lights, a phone charger, and a small TV.

Lack of access to electricity is a problem that affects 1.3 billion people worldwide and 3 % of the Mexican population, more than 3 million people (National Census).

More than 840 million people worldwide, or 1 in 9, do not have access to safe water, and 2.3 billion, or 1 in 3, lack access to a toilet.

We created nTrust to help solve a problem that affects nearly 50 % of adults worldwide: a lack of access to affordable banking.