Humanity Greed by The Numbers

About 21,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every four seconds, as you can see on this display. Sadly, it is children who die most often

6.3 million children under age five died in 2013, nearly 17,000 every day. 

Approximately 3.1 million children die from hunger each year. Poor nutrition caused nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five in 2011.

The world produces 17% more food per person today than 30 years ago. But close to a billion people go to sleep hungry every night

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that about 795 million people of the 7.3 billion people in the world, or one in nine, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2014-2016.

How much does it cost to solve world hunger? A price has been set and estimated by the United Nations to solve this crisis – $30 billion a year. It may seem like a large sum of money, but when compared to the U.S. defense budget – $737 billion in 2012...{Bill Gates alone is worth $75 Billion}

Every year, consumers in industrialized countries waste almost as much food as the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa (222 million vs. 230 million tons)According to a recent report by UNEP and the World Resources Institute (WRI), about one-third of all food produced worldwide, worth around US$1 trillion, gets lost or wasted in food production and consumption systems.

• The amount of food lost and wasted every year is equal to more than half of the world’s annual cereals crops (2.3 billion tons in 2009/10)
• In the USA, 30-40% of the food supply is wasted, equaling more than 20 pounds of food per person per month
• Globally, 99 million under-five year olds were underweight in 2013, two thirds of which lived in Asia and about one third in Africa.