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  Figure 1. Life expectancy and GDP: fragile states are falling behind

Over the past 25 years, the share of poor people living in developing countries has been cut by half. But a group of 45 countries is falling behind, representing 1.2 billion people. In these countries, people are more than twice as likely to be undernourished as those in other developing countries. They are more than three times less likely to be able to send their children to school. Children in these countries are more than twice as likely to die before their fifth birthday. Unless we make better progress at accelerating development results in fragile states, we cannot claim much success in the global fight against poverty. (Graphic: Adapted from Gapminder, 2010)