The research was not only featured throughout the British media, but has also travelled globally; one million visits to the Class Calculator are from people outside the UK.
The Foresight report concluded that international policy has an important role to play here – today, despite plentiful supplies of food globally, almost one billion people are undernourished.
(For a little perspective, the number of smartphones in use globally exceeded one billion in Q3 alone last year, according to Strategy Analytics).
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that globally over one billion people smoke tobacco [ 3].
Globally, about one billion people are familiar with hookah and approximately 100 million people use hookah on a daily basis [ 9].
Globally, one in four children under the age of five are stunted, meaning they are significantly smaller than expected for their age due to malnutrition.
Globally, one in four children suffer physical abuse, one in five girls are sexually abused at least once in their lifetime, and more than 240 million children live in countries affected by conflict.
Globally, one in three people lacks access to a decent toilet of their own, while one in nine is unable to obtain clean water near their home, according to WaterAid.
Globally, one in five women will be raped in their lifetime.
Globally, one in three women and girls experience physical or sexual violence, the United Nations estimates.
Globally, one in five reptile species is threatened with extinction, with invasive species a leading cause of extinction risk.
