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Nigeria

Although it is one of the world’s largest oil producers, Nigeria’s oil income amounts to just 24p per person per day. One in five children dies before their fifth birthday. Many don’t have enough to eat and can’t get treatment when they are ill. Some 40% of children miss out on school and have to work to survive. Nearly 2 million children have lost one or both parents to an AIDS-related disease.