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7. November 2022

5.8 billion people globally (90%) have access to safely managed drinking water now, the highest proportion in our species’ history.

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4. November 2022

39.2% reduction in the proportion of people deprived of sanitation in Nepal between 2011 and 2019.

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2. November 2022

7,000 midwives in Sri Lanka are helping maintain one of the lowest maternal and child mortality rates in Asia.

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31. October 2022

415 million people were lifted out of poverty in India between 2005/06 and 2019/21 – “a historic change”.

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27. October 2022

30,000 square kilometers of ocean in the Kattegatt, a sea area between Denmark and Sweden, is now protected by a total ban on bottom trawling.

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24. October 2022

$ 266 was pledged by Australia to the Global Fund towards ending HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria.

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21. October 2022

2070 is the year, around which the ozone hole over Antarctica will have closed, as new research predicts.

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19. October 2022

8.6% decline in under-five mortality in India between 2019 and 2020 and a 6.7% decline in infant mortality at the same time.

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17. October 2022

14% decrease in child marriage in Nigeria, from 44% of girls married before their 18th birthday in 2016 to 30% in 2021.

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13. October 2022

68% increase in the size of the global middle class since 2011 amid the growing prosperity of emerging economies.

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