| 50,000 Number of Afghan children working on the streets of Kabul alone. While we have no idea how Afghanistan matches up to the United States on a military front, here's how they compare on a human level. |
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| 24 million Population of Afghanistan. | ||
| 285,215,142 Population of the United States. | ||
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| 257 Number of every 1,000 children born in Afghanistan who die before their 5th birthday. | ||
| 3.5 Number of every 1,000 children born in the U.S. who die before their 5th birthday. | ||
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| 1 Number of doctors for every 50,000 people in Afghanistan. | ||
| 140 Number of doctors for every 50,000 people in the United States. | ||
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| 12 Percent of Afghan population with access to adequate drinking water. | ||
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| 39 Percent of Afghan boys enrolled in school. | ||
| 98 Percent of American boys enrolled in school. | ||
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| 3 Percent of Afghan girls enrolled in school. | ||
| 97 Percent of American girls enrolled in school. | ||
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| 1-1.5 million Number of Afghans killed in the fighting since 1979. | ||
| 268 Number of American casualties in the Gulf War. | ||
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| 700,000 Number of war widows in Afghanistan. | ||
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| 50,000 Number of Afghan children working on the streets of Kabul alone. | ||
| 300,000 Number of homeless youth in the U.S. each year. | ||
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| 10 million Number of live landmines still buried in Afghanistan. (That's one for every 2.4 people in the country!) | ||
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| 17 Percent of U.S. children living in poverty. | ||
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| 3 million Number of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan and Iran. | ||
| 1,146,400 Number of refugees from various countries living in the United States. | ||
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Sources:
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/dailynews/child_wellbeing010719.h
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http://census.gov
http://www3.who.int/whosis/health_personnel/health_personnel.cfm?path=whosis
,health_personnel&language=english
http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/hh-fam/p20-537/2000/tabA1.pdf
http://www.un.org/cgibin/pubs/infonatn/dquery.pl?rtype2=on&lang=e&afg=on&usa
=on&engen=on&crime=on&refug=on&SUBMIT=View+Info
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/youth.html
http://www.netwizards.net/~cryan/death.html
