Almost 800 million people in the world are undernourished.

More than 1 billion people, a fifth of humanity, do not have adequate shelter.

Some 1 billion people lack access to safe water.

By 1994, there were an estimated 194 million computers in use worldwide, a dramatic increase from 4 million computers in 1981.

Expenditures for United Nations peacekeeping operations reached an estimated $3.7 billion in 1994, an increase of 22 percent in one year.

In Western Europe, 60 percent of the amphibian species are threatened or declining.

The number of official refugees in the world reached 23 million in 1994. 

Since 1950, the number of people living in urban areas has jumped from 737 million to 2.6 billion. 

During the last decade, the world population has grown by between 86 to 90 million people each year.

In 1994, a record number of people -- some 4 million -- contracted the HIV virus which causes AIDS.

Since 1950, the number of households worldwide with television has grown from 4 million to 886 million.