Thursday, July 28, 2005

Non-vital Stats!

somebody mailed me these statistics.. thinking that it might make me stop and think!

did it?

i don't know..but here they go!

95 in every 1000 children born in India, do not see their fifth birthday
•70 in every 1000 children born in India, do not see their first birthday
•1 out of every 6 girls does not live to see her 15th birthday
•Of the 12 million girls born in India, 1 million do not see their first birthday
•Of the 12 million girls born in India, 3 million do not see their fifteenth birthday, and a million
of them are unable to survive even their first birthday.
•One-third of these deaths take place at birth
•Every sixth girl child's death is due to gender discrimination
•Females are victimised far more than males during childhood
•1 out of every 10 women reported some kind of child sexual abuse during childhood, chiefly by known persons
•1 out of 4 girls is sexually abused before the age of 4
•19% are abused between the ages of 4 and 8
•28% are abused between the ages of 8 and 12
•35% are abused between the ages of 12 and 16
•3 lakh more girls than boys die every year
•Female mortality exceeds male mortality in 224 out of 402 districts in India
•Death rate among girls below the age of 4 years is higher than that of boys. Even if she escapes infanticide or foeticide, a girl child is less likely to receive immunisation, nutrition or medical treatment compared to a male child
•53% of girls in the age group of 5 to 9 years are illiterate
•Every year 27,06,000 children under 5 years die in India. And the deaths of girl children are higher than those of male children.
•Only 38% of India's children below the age of 2 years are immunized
•74% of India's children below the age of 3 months are anemic
•Amongst married women in India today, 75% were under age at the time of their marriages
•While one in every five adolescent boys is malnourished, one in every two girls in India is
undernourished
Children are often treated as the "property" of the very adults who are supposed to take care for them, being ordered around, threatened, coerced, silenced, with complete disregard of them as "persons" with rights and freedoms.
•17 million children in India work, as per official estimates, NGOs numbers though are higher at 100 million
•They work for 12 - 15 hours a day and earn less than Rs.3 per day.
•They work with explosives, metals, and poisonous gases from the age of 3 - 4 years.
•1 out of 4 children work… at cost of a childhood.
•There are approximately 2 million child commercial sex workers between the age of 5 and 15 years and about 3.3 million between 15 and 18 years
•They form 40% of the total population of commercial sex workers in India
•80% of these are found in the 5 metros
•71% of them are illiterate
•500,000 children are forced into this trade every year
•Mentally/physially challenged girls are at a particular risk to violence and abuse


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