Factfulness Pre-Quiz

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Last Name

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

• 20%
• 40%
• 60%

2. Where does the majority of the world population live?

• Low-income countries
• Middle-income countries
• High-income countries

3. 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 (lessened by half)

4. What is the life expectancy of the world today?

• 50 years
• 60 years
• 70 years

5. There are 2 billion children in the world today aged 0-15 years old, how many children will there be in year 2100 according to the United Nations?

• 4 billion
• 3 billion
• 2 billion

6. The UN predicts that by 2100 the world population will have increased by another 4 billion people, what is the main reason?

• There will be more adults aged 15-74
• There will be more very old people aged 75 and older
• There will be more children aged below 15

7. How did the number of deaths per year from natural disasters change over the last 100 years?

• Remained about the same
• More than doubled
• Decreased to less than half