90% of users of prostheses in developing countries, Africa and Middle-East, was been amputated due to landmine explosions: according to International Red Cross, landmine victims are hitted during military actions (13%), playing (8%), fieldwork (20%), travelling (15%), demining (4%), non- military actions (38%) others (2%).
International organizations report about 1500000 victims. According to International Campaign to Ban Landmine(ICBL), more than 80% out of 15000/20000 victims/year are civils; 1 out of 5 it's a child.
Most affected countries are: Cambodia, Afghanistan, Angola, Mozambique, ex- Jugoslavia, Somalia, El Salvador, Kurdistan, Kuwait. Except ex-Jugoslavia and El Salvador all the other countries are African or Middle-East states.
Landmine issue is strictly linked to warchild: more than 300000 under 18 are recruited as warchild; hundred of thousand fought during the last decade, some of them in governament army, some in the opposition ones. Most of them are between 15 and 18 year old but there's a tendency to recruit younger children.
Some datas speak that 5% of landmine victims are warchild.

Datas about landmine surviviors, 2007 form ICBL website ( www.ibcl.com)

Marocco: 1610
Algeria: 13.000
Mauritania: 242
Senegal: 569
Sudan: 1.688
Eritrea: 84.000
Ethiopia: 7.275
Somalia: 2.487
Kenya: 61
Uganda: 2.039
Malawi: 1.000
Mozambique: 30.000
Angola: 62.500
Namibia: 464

Cambodia: 43.316
Afghanistan: from 50.000 to 60.000
Burma: 10.605
India: 10.256
Pakistan: more than 5000
Sri Lanka: at least 1.132

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