Friday Factly 6 November 2020

General Studies-II

If a person in New York has to pay $1.2 for a plate of food, the same plate will cost $7 in India and $15 in Pakistan. The same plate would cost $300 in Sudan.

Women comprise an average of 43 per cent of the agricultural labour force across the developing.
Eight out of ten agricultural workers in Africa are women and in Asia six out of ten are women.
Rural women often represent approximately two thirds of the 400 million poor livestock keepers.

According to latest Credit Suisse report

India ranks fifth globally in terms of the ultra-rich population — those with wealth in excess of $50 million.
78 per cent of the adult populations have personal wealth less than $10,000 or about Rs 7, 30,000.Last year it was 91%.
8% of adults or 15.6 million people — enjoy a net worth of $1,00,000 and continue to own a lion’s share of India’s total wealth that increased four-fold between 2000 and 2019, reaching $12.6 trillion this year.

The transport sector in India contributes one-third of the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
According to State of Global Air 2020India is the worst-polluted country in the world. India, with 83.2 microgramme per cubic metre(μg/m3), had the highest population-weighted annual average PM2.5 exposures in 2019.
The World Health Organization Air Quality Guideline puts this value at 10 μg/m3.
The State of Global Air 2020report also shows that over 90 per cent of the world’s population experienced annual average PM2.5 concentrations that exceeded WHO standards.
The top five polluted countries in the world are India (83.2 μg/m3), Nepal (83.1 μg/m3), Niger (80.1 μg/m3), Qatar (76 μg/m3) and Nigeria (70.4 μg/m3).
The 10 countries with the lowest exposures (less than 8 μg/m3) are Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the United States.