I have always been troubled when I have heard this statistic quoted as well. However, there is an even more disturbing statistic. According to the World Health Organization, in 2004, 45 out of 1000 children born died before reaching his/her 5th birthday. A few years before, that number was over 50 per 1000 births. A decade before it was 70 per 1000.
http://www.who.int/whosis/mort/profi..._guatemala.pdf
In other words, 5 out of every 100 children born in Guatemala will die before reaching age 5.
Many of the children in our families might have contributed to that statistic.
I would also like to point out that I have been told that the 1 out of 100 number we hear so often is the number or registered births, (not actual births) divided by the number of cases registered in PGN.