Facts & Figures

Climate change is expected to affect all people and all ecosystems. Many of these effects will be negative, but increasing resilience can improve our ability to adapt to change.

• The current world population of 6.5 billion is expected to reach 9.1 billion by 2050
• 2.1 billion people live on less than US$ 2 a day
• Almost 1 billion people live on less than US$ 1 a day
• 1.6 billion people have no access to electricity
• 2.4 billion people lack access to modern fuels for cooking and heating
• 1.1 billion people do not have access to an improved source of drinking water
• Climate change is expected to put 49 million extra people at risk of hunger by 2020, and 132 million by 2050
• 56 million people live along coastlines which would be flooded by a one-meter rise in sea level
• The ecological footprint of all nations in 2006 exceeded the capacity of the Earth by 30%
• Ecosystems on land and sea are already being profoundly affected