World Pediatric Project
Pediatric Health
Factfulness Global Facts
Miscellaneous
100

The place WPP kids stay while in St. Louis




What is Ronald McDonald House?

100

The number of children in low-resource countries who lack access to basic surgical care (as a fraction of the population)

What is 9/10?

100

The majority of the world population live in _______ (low, middle, or high-income countries)

What are middle-income countries?

100

______ make up the largest minority group in the United States.

People with disabilities (1in 4 people)

200

The regions of the world where WPP works

Where are Central America and the Caribbean?

200

The percentage of the world’s 1-year-old children today who have been vaccinated against some disease

What is 80%?
200

The number of deaths per year from natural disasters _____ over the last hundred years (doubled, remained the same, decreased by half)

What is decreased by half?

200

The most important influence on child development according to Tom Weisner (TEDTalk)

What is where in the world is the child grows up?

300

The decade WPP was founded in

When was the 2000s? (2001)

300

The number of children there will be in the year 2100, according to the United Nations

What is 2 billion?

300

The life expectancy of the world today

What is 70 years?

300

The year WashU Children's Project was founded at WashU

What is 2015?

400

To heal critically ill children and build healthcare capacity in the world is WPP's _______

What is mission statement?

400

The number of children around the world who have a disability

What is 200 million?

400

The percentage of people in the world have some access to electricity.

What is 80%?

400

In the Disability Etiquette video, we learned it is important to treat people with disabilities as ______

What are individuals?

500

The number of children reached by WPP's network of care in the past 20 years

What is 15,458?

500

The number of lives lost annually from conditions requiring surgical care

What is 17 million?

500

The number of girls who finish primary school in low-income countries across the world today

What is 60%?

500

Two of the four topics discussed in the VICE video "How to Treat a Person with Disabilities, According to People with Disabilities"

What are Questions, Assumptions, Helping, and Dating? (any combination of two of these)