A woman's life, in numbers.

Numbers often help us put it perspective: 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. 9% of judges, 10% of company directors and 10% of top police officers in the UK are women. Women comprise 55% of the world's population aged over 60 years old and 65% of those aged over 80. 85 million girls worldwide are unable to attend school, compared with 45 million boys. In Chad, just 4% of girls go to school. 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). In the US, 35% of lawyers are women but just 5% are partners in law firms. In the EU, women comprise 3% of chief execs of major companies. 12 is the number of world leaders who are women (out of 191 members of the United Nations). Men directed 9 out of every 10 films made in 2004. Courtesy of Truthout.org.