Twelve real things that are much, much scarier than Halloween

You don't need to turn to horror stories this Halloween when these 12 sobering facts about the world we live in are true:

1. One in every 122 people in the world has had to flee their home.

According to the head of the UN’s refugee agency, the global refugee crisis has reached unprecedented levels. One in 122 people is either a refugee, internally displaced or seeking asylum because the "world is a mess".

2. The world's richest one per cent own half the planet's wealth...

... while the bottom half owns less than one per cent.

The world's richest people earned $240billion (£143billion) in 2012 - enough to end extreme poverty four times over, according to The World Top Incomes Database.

3. 2015 is set to be the warmest year on record.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2015 is already the warmest year on record - and the planet is warming faster than was previously thought.

4. Half of women in the UK say they have been physically or sexually assaulted

That is according to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. But official figures in the UK show that only one in every 30 rape cases ends with a prosecution.

5. More than one million visits were paid to food banks in the UK in 2014-2015.

The Trussell Trust says the figure is a sign of how reliance on emergency food supplies has become a fact of life due to Tory policies.

A reminder that the Department for Work and Pensions just spent £8.5m on this:

6. The northern white rhino is as good as extinct.

Humans have poached the northern white rhino into imminent extinction. There's only one male northern white rhino left in the whole world, and he's too old to mate.

7. Government surveillance is being used to target innocents.

Both the EU and US passed bills that limit the freedom of the internet this week.

In the UK, a BBC journalist who works on jihadi and terrorism stories had his laptop confiscated by the police under the Terrorism Act.

8. The youth of today are unlikely to ever own their own homes.

David Cameron has announced 200,000 new 'starter' homes to get people on the property ladder, but only people on salaries of more than £50,000 a year will be able to buy them. If you're on minimum wage, the picture is even starker:

9. Isis and other terror groups are getting bigger and stronger.

The head of MI5 warned this week that Isis has attempted six "mass casualty" terror attacks outside of their territory in Syria and Iraq in the past year and will continue to plan more.

Boko Haram in Nigeria and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb also continue to slaughter thousands and the West is doing little to intervene.

10. Obesity is a bigger global health crisis than hunger.

The Lancet found that around the world, health problems arising from obesity now affect more children than both infectious disease and hunger. With the exception of sub-Saharan Africa, globally there has been a 82 per cent increase in obesity in the last 20 years.

11. A bunch of anti-Muslim, anti-women, anti-refugee and anti gun-control candidates are far too close to being the most powerful person in the world.

Apparently, the more offensive a GOP presidential candidate is, the higher they rise in the polls. Creationist Ben Carson, who has said a Muslim should never be President of the US, is currently leading at 26 per cent.

12. Finally, Donald Trump.

Just Donald Trump.

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