The World Summit of Governments, held in Dubai from 12 to 14 February 2017, was a three-day session, which included 150 speakers in 114 sessions, and was attended by more than 4 000 regional and global figures from 138 countries. The summit released shocking numbers about poverty, illiteracy, corruption and terrorism in the Arab World.
The summit revealed that there are 57 million illiterate Arabs; 13.5 million Arab children who did not attend school this year, where 30 million Arabs are living below the poverty line.
Poverty rates in the past two years have increased by 8%. One trillion dollars has been recorded as the cost of corruption in the Arab region, where five Arab countries are present in the list of the ten most corrupt countries in the world.
On the other hand, the Arab world represents 5% of the world's population, which suffers from 45% of the global terrorist attacks, 75% of the world's Arab refugees and 68% of the world's war deaths.
The Arab world produces only 20,000 books a year, less than a country like Romania. 410 million Arabs have only 2900 patents, while 50 million Koreans have 20201 patents.
14 million Arabs were homeless from 2011 to 2017, recording 1.4 million dead and injured because of wars. Arab destructed infrastructure costed 460 billion dollars during the same period, and losses in the Arab Gross Domestic Product by 300 billion dollars from 2011 to the end of this year.
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