Tomorrow morning we’ll publish the answer in the comment section of this post AND right here, like this.
The answer to yesterday’s question is 41 percent.
Forty-one percent of the world’s people live in areas where malaria is transmitted, including parts of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central and South America, Hispaniola and Oceania.
(Source: cdc.gov/malaria/facts.htm, November 2008)
I’m gonna say 50%
The answer is 90%.
Let’s see…so that’d be 900,000 children in Africa dying of malaria every year. The remaining 100,000 would be distributed among the adults in Africa, and Asia, Central and South America combined.
Kinda disproportionate?
56% is my guess
Judith is correct: 90%.
Stats like this continue to shock me.
I have a great idea to drive traffic from reader’s blogs to Compassion. Do up a blog post compling a list of some of the most surprising stats featured by the web team.
Maybe I’ll do smtg like that tml…
90% – that one smacked me in the face…we should be so thankful for our blessings…
And the answer is …
90%.
Ninety percent of those who die from malaria are African children.
Through our Malaria Intervention Fund, Compassion-assisted children have access to insecticide-treated mosquito nets and malaria prevention education, and those struggling with the disease have access to malaria medical treatment.
(Source: nothingbutnets.net/malaria-kills/, November 2008)