1% of the titled land in the world is owned by women.

A baby girl born in the UK is likely to live to 81 - but if she is born in Swaziland, she is likely to die at 39.

70% of the 1.2 billion people living in poverty are women and children.

21% of the world's managers are female.

62% of unpaid family workers are female.

Women comprise 55% of the world's population aged over 60 years old and 65% of those aged over 80.

700,000,000 women are without adequate food, water, sanitation, health care or education (compared with 400,000,000 men).

67% of all illiterate adults are women.

1,440 women die each day during childbirth (a rate of one death every minute).

1 in 7 women in Ethiopia die in pregnancy or childbirth (it is one in 19,000 in Britain).