Statistics

World Hunger Stats

In the Asian, African, and Latin American countries, over 500 million children are over in absolute poverty.
3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US $2/day.
Every 3.6 seconds somebody dies of world hunger
183 million children weigh less than they should for their age.
For a price of one missile, we could feed a school of hungry children lunch for 5 years.
One out of every 8 children under the age of 12 go to bed hungry in the U.S.
About 15 million children die of world hunger each year.
One out of every 12 people is malnourished, along with 160 million children under the age of 5 years of age.
50% of kids under the age of 5 in South Asia are malnourished.

These are important stats that really show how big of a problem World Hunger really is.