Homework Help: Social Studies: World Issues: 20 Facts About Hunger

1. Hunger affects one billion people.
2. Malnutrition claims the lives of 250,000 children each week.
3. One-third of the grain in the world and one-half of the fish caught are fed to animals in wealthy countries.
4. UNICEF estimates that within a decade, there could be an end to child malnutrition, preventable disease, and illiteracy, at a cost of 25 billion per year. Americans spend $31 billion a year on beer.
5. 1.2 billion people in the world live in poverty.
6. The top one-fifth of the people have 60 times the goods of the lower one-fifth.
7. Half-a-million children die each year because of international debt crisis.
8. 780 million people do not have access to adequate food.
9. 1 out of 6 children is born underweight.
10. Over 1,000 children die each hour from hunger-related causes.
11. 85% of hunger is due to poverty.
12. 15.5 million people starve to death each year.
13. $988 billion is spent each year on military.
14. $132 billion is spent each year on relief and aid programs.
15. In 1992, 25% of the children born in Somalia died of starvation.
16. In 1981, New York City had 30 emergency food agencies.
17. In 1987, New York City had 500 emergency food agencies.
18. In 1985, 20 million Americans lived in hunger.
19. In 1992, 30 million Americans lived in hunger.
20. 40% of the children in New York City live in poverty.

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