- More than 86% of Indigenous peoples globally work in the informal economy, odd jobs or providing services for which you are paid in cash, compared to 66% of their non-indigenous counterparts
- Indigenous peoples are nearly three times as likely to be living in extreme poverty compared to their non-indigenous counterparts.
- Globally, 47% of all Indigenous Peoples in employment have no education, compared to 17% of their non-indigenous counterparts. The gap is even wider for women.

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
On December 1994, the United Nations General Assembly, proclaimed August 9th International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Globally, indigenous people’s number between 370 and500 million people and speak the majority of the world’s almost 7000 languages. Unfortunately, many indigenous peoples continue to be confronted with marginalization, extreme poverty and other human rights violations.
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