#23 The percentage of people in developing countries living below US$1 (adjusted for inflation and purchasing power) per day has halved in only twenty years,[10] although some critics argue that more detailed variables measuring poverty should instead be studied.[11]
Life expectancy has almost doubled in the developing world since WWII and is starting to close the gap to the developed world where the improvement has been smaller. Infant mortality has decreased in every developing region of the world.[12]
Income inequality for the world as a whole is diminishing.[13]. Critics, however, point out that these advances are the result of scientific progress that is otherwise unrelated to globalization such as the discovery of antibiotics.
Democracy has increased dramatically from almost no nation with universal suffrage in 1900 to 62.5% of all nations in 2000.[14]
The proportion of the world's population living in countries where per-capita food supplies are less than 2,200 calories (9,200 kilojoules) per day decreased from 56% in the mid-1960s to below 10% by the 1990s.[15]
Between 1950 and 1999, global literacy increased from 52% to 81% of the world. Women made up much of the gap: Female literacy as a percentage of male literacy has increased from 59% in 1970 to 80% in 2000.[16]
The percentage of children in the labor force has fallen from 24% in 1960 to 10% in 2000. [17]
There are similar trends for electric power, cars, radios, and telephones per capita, as well as the proportion of the population with access to clean water.[18]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization#Pro-globalization_.28globalism.29
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PD: Que la diferencia entre pobres y ricos aumente no significa que los pobres sean más pobres, como alguno parece entender.