NGO Stats - Facts & Figures

1. 43% of Indian women do not have access to sanitary essentials at the beginning of periods
2. according to the WHO report on World’s population of blind, India is now home to the world’s largest number of blind population. Out of 37 million of world’s population of blind, 15 million are from India and ironically 80% of these are cases of avoidable blindness. 
3. 285 million people are estimated to be visually impaired worldwide: 39 million are blind and 246 million have low vision.
4. About 90% of the world’s visually impaired live in low-income settings.
5. Less than half of visually impaired children are receiving education.
6. The girl child with visual impairment receives less attention and is doubly discriminated against.
7. Almost none of the growing number of visually impaired children with additional disabilities receives any educational services.
   
8. The World Bank estimates that India is ranked 2nd in the world of the number of children su­ering from malnutrition, after Bangladesh. The UN estimates that 2.1 million Indian children die before reaching the age of 5 every year – four every minute – mostly from preventable illnesses such as diarrhea, typhoid, malaria, measles and pneumonia. Every day, 1,000 Indian children die because of diarrhea alone.

The Labour Bureau Report, 2014 states that only 2% of the total Indian workforce is skilled, which is really low in comparison to other countries like China (47%), Japan (80%) and South Korea (96%). Around 80% of new entrants to the workforce in our country have no opportunity for skill training. Against 12.8 million new entrants per annum entering in to the workforce, the existing training capacity is only 3.1 million per annum.  

• 63% of India’s children go to bed hungry
• 53% suffer from chronic malnutrition
• 20 million live on the streets
• 60 million don’t go to school
• 85 million have never been immunised.

Hunger Facts:

  Hunger remains the No.1 cause of death in the world. Aids, Cancer etc. follow.
2. There are 820 million chronically hungry people in the world.
3.1/3rd of the worldÂ’s hungry live in India.
4. 836 million Indians survive on less than Rs. 20 (less than half-a-dollar) a day.
5.Over 20 crore Indians will sleep hungry tonight.
6. 10 million people die every year of chronic hunger and hunger-related diseases. Only eight percent are the victims of hunger caused by high-profile earthquakes, floods, droughts and wars.
7. India has 212 million undernourished people – only marginally below the 215 million estimated for 1990–92.
8. 99% of the 1000 Adivasi households from 40 villages in the two states, who comprised the total sample, experienced chronic hunger (unable to get two square meals, or at least one square meal and one poor/partial meal, on even one day in the week prior to the survey). Almost as many (24.1 per cent) had lived in conditions of semi-starvation during the previous month.
9. Over 7000 Indians die of hunger every day.
10. Over 25 lakh Indians die of hunger every year.
11. Despite substantial improvement in health since independence and a growth rate of 8 percent in recent years, under-nutrition remains a silent emergency in India, with almost 50 percent of Indian children underweight and more than 70 percent of the women and children with serious nutritional deficiencies as anemia.
12. The 1998 – 99 Indian survey shows 57 percent of the children aged 0 – 3 years to be either severely or moderately stunted and/or underweight.

13. During 2006 – 2007, malnutrition contributed to seven million Indian children dying, nearly two million before the age of one.
14. 30% of newborn are of low birth weight, 56% of married women are anaemic and 79% of children age 6-35 months are anaemic.
15. The number of hungry people in India is always more than the number of people below official poverty line (while around 37% of rural households were below the poverty line in 1993-94, 80% of households suffered under nutrition).

 

Pollution Facts

• According to research conducted by the World Health Organization, around 2.4 million people die every year because of air pollution.
• In India, air pollution is believed to cause 527,700 fatalities a year.
• Engine exhaust (diesel and gas) contains more than 40 hazardous air pollutants.
• Traffic areas around schools - where vehicles are often left idling - show significantly higher pollution levels outside (and inside) their buildings.
• Emissions from vehicles are producing around 70% of the air pollution. There are about 500 million cars on the planet and by 2030, that number is expected to double to 1 billion cars.
• Under standard Indian driving conditions, a standard petrol-vehicle is expected to emit over 8000 grams of carbon dioxide per day while travelling. For a usual commuter that amounts to over 1.92 tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted annually by a single vehicle.
• Under standard Indian driving conditions, a standard petrol-vehicle is expected to emit over 800 grams of carbon dioxide per day just while idling.
• Many industries are still dumping their waste in water bodies like lakes, oceans or rivers. Bacteria born because of industries dumping their waste in water bodies are responsible for causing of about 250 million water borne diseases annually. Due to these diseases 5 to 10 million deaths are occurring every year.
• An estimated 14 billion pounds of trash, much of it plastic, is dumped in the world's oceans every year.
• A staggering 250 million Indians make their living in some form from the forests. At present, India has 70 million hectares of forest cover. But 40% of that cover is sadly, 'open degraded forest'.
• The cost of one nuclear weapons test alone could finance the installation of eighty thousand hand pumps, giving third world villages access to clean water.
• Combined with industrial runoff, the garbage thrown into the Yamuna totals over 3 billion liters of waste per day.
• According to the World Health Organization, each year an estimated four billion people get sick with diarrhea as a result of drinking unsafe water, inadequate sanitation, and poor hygiene. Nearly two million people die from diarrhea each year, and many of them are children under the age of five, poor, and living in the developing world.
• Vapi in Gujarat and Sukinda in Orrisa is among the world's top 10 most polluted places, according to the Blacksmith Institute, a New York-based nonprofit group.
• Air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels like coal and diesel has contributed to a worrisome slowdown in rice harvest growth in India in the past two decades
• India, the world's third-largest coal producer, is among the world's top CO2 emitters. - National Geographic
• India has been ranked as the seventh most environmentally hazardous country in the world by a new ranking released recently. The study is based on evaluation of "absolute" environment impact of 179 countries, whose data was available and has been done by researchers in Harvard, Princeton, Adelaide University and University of Singapore on January 12, 2011.(http://www.gits4u.com/envo/envo4.htm)
• Vehicle emissions are responsible for 70% of the country's air pollution. The major problem with government efforts to safeguard the environment has been enforcement at the local level.
• Air pollution from vehicle exhausts and industries is a worsening problem for India. Exhaust emissions from vehicles has increased eight-fold over levels of twenty years ago; industrial pollution has risen four times over the same period. The economy has grown two and a half times over the past two decades, but pollution control and civil services have not kept pace. Air quality is the worst in big cities like Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, etc.
• Bangalore holds the title of being the asthma capital of the country. Studies estimate that 10 per cent of Bangalore's 60 lakh population and over 50 per cent of its children below 18 years suffer from air pollution- related ailments.
• Chennai: Exhaust from vehicles, dust from construction debris, industrial waste, burning of municipal and garden waste are all on the rise in the city. So are respiratory diseases, including asthma.
• Mumbai: The air pollution in Mumbai is so high that Mumbai authorities have purchased 42,000 litres of perfume to spray on the city's enormous waste dumps at Deonar and Mulund landfill sites after people living near the landfill sites complained of the stench.
• Pune: According to a study by Environment Status Report (ESR) in July 2010, air pollution in Pune has become a serious problem. The respiratory suspended particulate matter (PM 10) in the air is more than the standard national level. About 93,000 commercial properties which include hotels, malls and hospitals emit 204 tonne PM10 every year
• Delhi: According to a study conducted in June 2011 by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Delhi has high levels of air pollutants and ozone, and the latter has a harmful impact on health and agricultural yield. TERI found that cities like Delhi and Ghaziabad violate annual ambient air quality standards for particulate matter concentrations.
• Indoor air pollution: Indoor air pollution is the most important cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in India, says a prevalence study conducted by Pune based Chest Research Foundation (CRF) and the Imperial College, London in November 2010. Over 700 million people in India suffer from high levels of indoor air pollution affecting women and young children as 75 per cent homes use biomass fuel like wood, crop residue and dung cakes.
• The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is working to understand how exposure to environmental agents trigger diseases such as Asthma, and how these diseases can be prevented, diagnosed and treated.
• Municipal solid waste: With India's urban population slated to increase from the current 330 million to about 600 million by 2030, the challenge of managing municipal solid waste (MSW) in an environmentally and economically sustainable manner is bound to assume gigantic proportions. The country has over 5,000 cities and towns, which generate about 40 million tonnes of MSW per year today. Going by estimates of The Energy Research Institute (TERI), this could well touch 260 million tonnes per year by 2047.
• Taking a cue from the finding, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) formulated NAAQS and checked the air quality, which led to the revelation about air quality in leading cities.
• According to the report, Gobindgarh in Punjab is the most polluted city, and Ludhiana, Raipur and Lucknow hold the next three positions. Faridabad on the outskirts of Delhi is the 10th most polluted city, followed by Agra, the city of the Taj Mahal. Ahmedabad is placed 12th, Indore 16th, Delhi 22nd, Kolkata 25th, Mumbai 40th, Hyderabad 44th and Bangalore stands at 46th in the list. The Orissa town of Angul, home to National Aluminium Company (NALCO), is the 50th polluted city of the country.

Social media statistics:

1. 100 billion global searches
2.  39% of customers come from search
3.  2 billion people online
4.  31 million people purchased goods or services online in the 12 months to August 2010.
5. 34% of marketers have generated leads using Twitter
6. 55% of Twitter users access the platform via their mobile
7. 247 billion emails/day
8. 27.3 million tweets/day
9. 260 billion page views/month in FB
10. 1billion youtube videos visited/day
11. Online adults aged 18-34 are most likely follow a brand via social networking (95%)
12. 71% of consumers who have had a good social media service experience with a brand are likely to recommend it to others
13. 2.56 billion global mobile social media users, equaling 34% penetration; globally with 1 million new active mobile social users added every day 
14. 96% of the people that discuss brands online do not follow those brands’ owned profiles
15. Visual content is more than 40 times more likely to get shared on social media than other types of content
16. In 2015 Facebook influenced 52 per cent of consumers’ online and offline purchases, up from 36 per cent in 2014
17. There are now more than 50 million small businesses using Facebook Pages to connect with their customers (Source: Facebook). 4 million of those businesses pay for social media advertising on Facebook
18. There were over 4.4 million videos uploaded directly to Facebook in February 2016, generating over 199 billion views
19. Only 20% of Facebook posts generate an emotional response while no ads did
20. Link clicks account for 92% of all user interaction with tweets 
21. 78% of people who complain to a brand via Twitter expect a response within an hour    
22. There is a total of 1.3 billion accounts, but only 328 million are active     
23. Top brands on Instagram are seeing a per-follower engagement rate of 4.21% which is 58 times higher than on Facebook and 120 times higher than on Twitter
24. 90% of Instagram users are younger than 35
25. Products were the top content types for the top 200 global brands in terms of engagement, at 60% in 2015 beating lifestyle category by over 20%
26. Posts tagged with another user (56%) or location (79%) have significantly higher engagement rates
27. There are 1.5 billion logged-in Youtube monthly active users     
28. In 2015 YouTube posted the figure of 40 billion all-time views for branded content
29. More than half of YouTube views come from mobile devices, and the average mobile viewing session lasts more than 40 minutes  

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Mobile Stats

• 80% of internet users own a smartphone.
• Mobile platforms, such as smartphones and tablets, host up to 60% of digital media time for users in the U.S.
• Google anticipates search queries on mobile devices to surpass desktop searches by the end of 2015.
• 65% of all email is first opened on a mobile device.
• 48% of users start their mobile internet sessions on a search engine.
• 56% of B2B buyers frequently use smartphones to access vendors’ content.
• 95% of adults primarily use their smartphones to access content/information.
• 64% of mobile web users abandon pages if they don’t load within 10 seconds.
• 35% of executives could not make an intended purchase because the website they visited wasn’t mobile-friendly.
• 90% of the C-suite uses mobile devices to research business purchases.

Global estimates

1. There are 214 million estimated international migrants in the world today.
2. Migrants comprise 3.1 per cent of the global population.
3. The number of the migrants worldwide would constitute the fifth most populous country in the world.
4. Women account for 49 per cent of global migrants.
5. In 2008, remittance flows are estimated at USD 444 billion worldwide, USD 338 billion of which went to developing countries.
6. There are roughly 20 to 30 million unauthorized migrants worldwide, comprising around 10 to 15 per cent of the world's immigrant stock.
7. In 2008, there were 26 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in at least 52 countries as a result of conflict.
8. In 2008, the global number of refugees reached an estimated 15.2 million persons.
9. Today there are 16 million refugees worldwide.

Blood Donation Facts  

Facts about blood needs

• Every year our nation requires about 5 Crore units of blood, out of which only a meager 2.5 Crore units of blood are available.
• The gift of blood is the gift of life. There is no substitute for human blood.
• Every two seconds someone needs blood.
• More than 38,000 blood donations are needed every day.
• A total of 30 million blood components are transfused each year.
• The average red blood cell transfusion is approximately 3 pints.
• The blood type most often requested by hospitals is Type O.
• Sickle cell patients can require frequent blood transfusions throughout their lives.
• More than 1 million new people are diagnosed with cancer each year. Many of them will need blood, sometimes daily, during their chemotherapy treatment.
• A single car accident victim can require as many as 100 units of blood

Facts about the blood supply

• Blood cannot be manufactured – it can only come from generous donors.
• Type O-negative blood (red cells) can be transfused to patients of all blood types. It is always in great demand and often in short supply.
• Type AB-positive plasma can be transfused to patients of all other blood types. AB plasma is also usually in short supply.

Facts about the blood donation process

• Donating blood is a safe process. A sterile needle is used only once for each donor and then discarded.
• Blood donation is a simple four-step process: registration, medical history and mini-physical, donation and refreshments.
• Every blood donor is given a mini-physical, checking the donor's temperature, blood pressure, pulse and hemoglobin to ensure it is safe for the donor to give blood.
• The actual blood donation typically takes less than 10-12 minutes. The entire process, from the time you arrive to the time you leave, takes about an hour and 15 min.
• The average adult has about 10 units of blood in his body. Roughly 1 unit is given during a donation.
• A healthy donor may donate red blood cells every 56 days, or double red cells every 112 days.
• A healthy donor may donate platelets as few as 7 days apart, but a maximum of 24 times a year.
• All donated blood is tested for HIV, hepatitis B and C, syphilis and other infectious diseases before it can be transfused to patients.

Facts about blood and its components

• Blood makes up about 7 percent of your body's weight.
• There are four types of transfusable products that can be derived from blood: red cells, platelets, plasma and cryoprecipitate. Typically, two or three of these are produced from a unit of donated whole blood – hence each donation can help save up to three lives.
• Donors can give either whole blood or specific blood components only. The process of donating specific blood components – red cells, plasma or platelets – is called apheresis.
• One transfusion dose of platelets can be obtained through one apheresis donation of platelets or by combining the platelets derived from five whole blood donations.
• Donated platelets must be used within five days of collection.
• Healthy bone marrow makes a constant supply of red cells, plasma and platelets. The body will replenish the elements given during a blood donation – some in a matter of hours and others in a matter of weeks.

Facts about donors

• The number one reason donors say they give blood is because they "want to help others."
• Two most common reasons cited by people who don't give blood are: "Never thought about it" and "I don't like needles."
• One donation can help save the lives of up to three people.
• If you began donating blood at age 18 and donated every 90 days until you reached 60, you would have donated 30 gallons of blood, potentially helping save more than 500 lives!
• Only 7 percent of people in India have O-negative blood type. O-negative blood type donors are universal donors as their blood can be given to people of all blood types.
• Type O-negative blood is needed in emergencies before the patient's blood type is known and with newborns who need blood.
• Thirty-five percent of people have Type O (positive or negative) blood.
• 0.4 percent of people have AB-blood type. AB-type blood donors are universal donors of plasma, which is often used in emergencies, for newborns and for patients requiring massive transfusions.