There are about 6.76 billion people in the world right now.
More than 840 million people in the world are malnourished.
More than 153 million of those people are children that are under the age of 5.
More than 6 million children under the age of 5 die every year because of hunger.
One child dies every 5 seconds- almost 16,000 children a day.
In 2005, almost 1.4 billion people lived below the international poverty line. These people earned less than $1.25 a day.
In Asian, African, and Latin American coutries, there are more then 500 million people who are living in what the World Bank calls "absolute poverty."
For the same amount of money that is used to buy one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years.
One in twelve people in the world are malnourished. Including 160 million children under the age of five.
3 billion people in the world today are struggling to survive on salaries of two US dollars a day.
One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the United States go to bed hungry every night.
About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age. |