Today's World Quiz

In all low-income countries across the world today, how many girls finish primary school?

• 20%

• 40%

• 60%

In the last 20 years, the proportion of the world population living in extreme poverty has . . .

• Almost doubled

• Remained more or less the same

• Almost halved

How did the number of deaths per year from natural disasters change over the last hundred years?

• Decreased to less than half

• Remained the same

• More than doubled

How many of the world’s 1-year-old children today have been vaccinated against some disease?

• 50%

• 80%

• 20%

Worldwide, 30-year-old men have spent 10 years in school, on average. How many years have women of the same age spent in school?

• 9

• 6

• 3

In 1996, tigers, giant pandas, and black rhinos were all listed as endangered. How many of these three species are more critically endangered today?

• None of them

• One of them

• Two of them