Summary:

Many Countries struggle with poverty. There are 115 of the world’s poorest countries based on Gross Domestic Product (GDP), spending less than $7500/annum, of which 28 countries have a GDP of less than $1000/annum.

Statistics:

Charities:

Third World Support Services in Ireland

There are 12 Charitable Organizations in Ireland working to here and abroad to provide financial, food, and welfare aid to as many third world countries as they can. Please see these Charities listed below along with the services they provide.

 

Charitable Organizations

Location Est.

Services

Habitat For Humanity/Habitat Ireland

Dublin 2002

Habitat for Humanity helps families and communities to build strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter in 70 countries around the world.

GOAL

Dublin 1977

The entry point for GOAL into those countries in which we work has typically been in the context of an emergency. Over the last 40 years GOAL has responded to nearly every major humanitarian crisis. We have worked in more than 60 countries, with millions of theworld’s poorest and most vulnerable people

Concern Dublin 1968 Multiple support services in 25 of the world poorest countries

Trocaire

Dublin 1973

Trócaire works with local and church partners to support communities in over 20 developing countries with a focus on food and resource rights, women’s empowerment and humanitarian response.

Irish Red Cross

Dublin 1939

National Societies act as auxiliaries to the public authorities of their own countries in the humanitarian field and provide a range of services including disaster relief, health and social programmes, and assistance to people affected by war. Together, the National Societies have 97 million members and volunteers and 300,000 employees who assist some 233 million beneficiaries each year.

UNICEF Dublin 1946

Multiple support services in 190 of the world poorest countries. In 2011, child deaths among under 5s stood at 18,000 a day

Oxfam

Dublin 1942

There are 20 Oxfam groups worldwide working in over 90 of the world’s poorest countries

Plan Ireland

Dublin 1937

Plan International is one of the largest international child-centred development organisations in the world operating in more than 70 countries.

Action AID Ireland

Dublin 1972

ActionAid works with over 15 million people in 45 countries around the world. ActionAid Ireland is currently funding programmes across six of these countries.

The Hope Foundation

Dublin & Cork 1999

The Hope Foundation is a registered charity working with street and slum children in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India. We work to free children and poor families from lives of pain, abuse, poverty and darkness.

Outreach Moldova Dublin 2000

We are dedicated to providing human rights, medical care and social education for children that have been abandoned or orphaned, children with special needs and children with terminal illnesses in the Republic of Moldova

Chernobyl Children’s Trust

Dublin 2006

Chernobyl Children’s Trust is a registered charity set up and run by Irish volunteers committed to helping impoverished children living in contaminated & disadvantaged areas of Belarus

Not-Profit Groups:

Information:

Third World Countries and Aid Support in Ireland

Many Countries struggle with poverty. Below is a table of 115 of the world’s poorest countries based on Gross Domestic Product (GDP), spending less than $7500/annum, of which 28 countries have a GDP of less than $1000/annum.

These figures are compiled by the International Monetary Fund, IMF, and published twice a year. The figures are based on Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), which takes into account the relative cost of living and the inflation rates per country compared to living standards among the different nations.

 

No. GDP per capita, current prices
(U.S. dollars per capita)
2015 2016 2017 2018
1. South Sudan, Republic of 1051.185 249.662 243.113 306.704
2. Burundi 294.496 298.006 312.463 306.966
3. Malawi 353.502 293.851 325.536 349.133
4. Central African Republic 330.563 359.339 388.655 454.065
5. Madagascar 402.067 401.396 448.983 474.784
6. Congo, Dem. Rep. of the 470.151 467.414 478.218 478.321
7. Mozambique 528.934 379.004 426.091 481.248
8. Niger 409.215 413.954 438.425 489.051
9. Sierra Leone 599.539 522.173 487.61 495.857
10. Afghanistan 594.513 560.601 569.531 565.426
11. Liberia 703.183 710.482 694.166 663.029
12. Togo 563.759 586.294 611.133 668.422
13. Uganda 662.164 670.37 706.502 717.496
14. Burkina Faso 575.621 606.554 654.869 734.033
15. Gambia, The 693.01 708.855 704.699 739.94
16. Sudan 1715.071 1408.8 1123.488 791.933
17. Rwanda 735.616 733.566 771.674 800.21
18. Tajikistan 919.073 795.981 800.802 807.05
19. Guinea-Bissau 643.916 708.398 793.622 851.536
20. Guinea 712.047 687.118 790.321 865.251
21. Haiti 809.672 753.91 783.789 874.043
22. Comoros 750.584 762.738 787.897 877.193
23. Chad 946.401 851.193 810.158 889.647
24. Ethiopia 720.617 802.121 872.84 890.565
25. Mali 740.32 766.233 813.3 891.888
26. Benin 786.172 791.495 831.1 923.25
27. Yemen 1612.011 1250.736 1043.055 925.618
28. Nepal 747.161 730.686 848.089 970.695
29. Tanzania 957.107 978.961 1034.225 1090.099
30. Eritrea 779.326 860.273 979.692 1111.561
31. Kyrgyz Republic 1109.428 1109.589 1207.781 1254.135
32. Zimbabwe 1137.067 1111.443 1185.343 1268.932
33. Mauritania 1303.868 1235.215 1271.332 1309.989
34. Uzbekistan 2143.294 2124.128 1520.097 1326.002
35. Myanmar 1147.341 1210.456 1278.071 1354.164
36. Zambia 1310.354 1252.698 1491.217 1450.409
37. Lesotho 1179.115 1216.635 1360.557 1465.548
38. Cambodia 1163.414 1270.484 1379.342 1485.327
39. Senegal 1186.925 1231.651 1331.276 1485.402
40. Pakistan 1424.954 1439.63 1545.938 1527.157
41. Cameroon 1338.603 1377.865 1441.379 1544.959
42. Sub-Saharan Africa (Region) 1672.175 1510.722 1575.237 1621.739
43. Sub-Saharan Africa 1671.745 1515.695 1595.049 1657.597
44. Bangladesh 1303.18 1458.851 1602.555 1736.29
45. Kiribati 1538.511 1617.206 1721.867 1749.735
46. Ghana 1372.174 1551.767 1662.585 1786.652
47. Côte d’Ivoire 1397.297 1494.7 1621.403 1791.372
48. Kenya 1453.296 1559.391 1695.378 1865.209
49. Africa (Region) 1984.673 1834.727 1812.925 1888.227
50. South Asia 1597.437 1697.853 1901.312 1946.76
51. India 1638.758 1749.164 1976.093 2016.152
52. Nigeria 2763.196 2207.861 1994.645 2050.152
53. São Tomé and Príncipe 1555.969 1705.692 1846.724 2068.791
54. Djibouti 1788.363 1902.754 1988.765 2084.856
55. Nicaragua 2073.494 2143.812 2220.676 2126.565
56. Solomon Islands 1971.553 2056.559 2114.677 2270.811
57. Papua New Guinea 2605.935 2341.536 2401.559 2464.73
58. Timor-Leste 2620.3 2079.628 2236.974 2485.877
59. Vietnam 2085.714 2172.012 2353.356 2552.829
60. Congo, Republic of 2067.086 1835.828 2005.336 2571.672
61. Egypt 3731.177 3686.07 2495.02 2572.382
62. Lao P.D.R. 2212.402 2416.855 2540.842 2690.187
63. Pacific Islands 2815.446 2629.217 2716.218 2810.571
64. Honduras 2598.097 2642.706 2766.271 2829.03
65. Ukraine 2135.182 2200.851 2656.01 2964.193
66. Philippines 2882.768 2953.208 2988.897 3099.26
67. Bhutan 2604.186 2675.388 2990.924 3211.326
68. Moldova 2142.908 2243.117 2694.469 3226.717
69. Micronesia, Fed. States of 3079.499 3154.38 3202.753 3277.248
70. Venezuela 7922.808 7687.671 6890.066 3300.357
71. North Africa 3650.474 3581.73 3086.809 3325.866
72. Vanuatu 2880.948 2904.821 3093.995 3327.748
73. Morocco 2964.961 2996.652 3136.862 3355.423
74. Tunisia 3827.641 3666.3 3464.717 3573.365
75. Cabo Verde 3042.979 3131.473 3300.989 3622.206
76. Bolivia 3099.454 3137.626 3412.813 3719.247
77. Indonesia 3369.355 3604.281 3875.769 3788.952
78. Angola 4354.921 3676.826 4465.734 3924.347
79. El Salvador 3671.32 3771.645 3894.736 4041.039
80. Eswatini 3594.818 3285.111 3850.545 4092.877
81. Tuvalu 3280.974 3362.05 3688.651 4096.248
82. Mongolia 3956.877 3702.583 3639.893 4097.756
83. Marshall Islands 3361.153 3624.337 4040.291 4113.477
84. Armenia 3529.026 3526.336 3857.179 4190.152
85. Jordan 4101.885 4093.707 4135.585 4227.541
86. ASEAN-5 3731.993 3869.122 4125.457 4249.131
87. Sri Lanka 3835.363 3845.988 4073.309 4265.287
88. Kosovo 3637.434 3766.258 3944.121 4323.964
89. Samoa 4149.36 4015.214 4258.343 4402.797
90. Southeast Asia 3906.188 4035.76 4287.35 4440.529
91. Algeria 4153.326 3928.385 4033.902 4449.792
92. Georgia 3761.91 3884.017 4085.834 4505.764
93. Guatemala 3923.56 4140.717 4469.457 4582.654
94. Azerbaijan 5300.136 3895.669 4140.65 4586.771
95. Guyana 4168.479 4531.241 4578.204 4648.722
96. Tonga 4021.72 4249.137 4520.886 4650.282
97. Belize 4855.441 4842.019 4806.493 4830.014
98. Iran 4723.476 5026.648 5289.795 5221.974
99. Albania 3953.61 4132.208 4544.912 5260.901
100. Jamaica 5029.073 4956.267 5193.359 5393.382
101. Bosnia and Herzegovina 4584.264 4808.299 5180.778 5703.869
102. Iraq 4811.922 4505.306 4950.31 5793.467
103. Caribbean 5392.204 5402.89 5560.885 5823.29
104. Fiji 4995.77 5232.277 5527.537 5876.552
105. Namibia 5162.865 4864.078 5589.462 5923.495
106. Paraguay 5353.075 5259.938 5600.094 5933.842
107. FYR Macedonia 4860.421 5188.432 5474.423 5953.262
108. Belarus 5941.24 5022.472 5727.385 6020.043
109. Ecuador 6099.351 6046.302 6216.606 6301.074
110. Suriname 8507.968 5703.369 5869.515 6506.041
111. South Africa 5802.709 5316.042 6179.87 6560.041
112. Colombia 6088.678 5800.253 6379.606 6761.223
113. Serbia 5237.254 5426.201 5901.226 6814.809
114. Thailand 5830.636 5970.316 6590.638 7084.471
115. Peru 6150.458 6178.179 6731.851 7118.427