Statistics and Facts

Berhane, Daniel. "Maps of Famine and Emergency Forecasts | East Africa « Danielberhane's Blog." Danielberhane's Blog. WordPress.com, 22 July 2011. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. <http://danielberhane.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/maps-of-famine-and-emergency-forecasts-east-africa/>.

• Currently, the Horn of Africa is in a dreadful food crisis, which the U.N. estimates 2.5 billion dollars are needed for the humanitarian response.
• The Kenya Dekadal Food Security Monitoring revealed that 3.75 million people are presently food insecure due to long rain season
•  Every 3.6 someone in the world dies due to starvation, 75% of them are children
• 43% of African -American children are chronically hungry
• “For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years” (World Hunger 1).
• There are currently about 3 billion people in the world right now struggling to survive with just two daily U.S. dollars 
• 183 million children are underweight for their age
• “To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion”- which is equivalent to “what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year” (World Hunger 1).
• Cause of death of fifteen million children every year
• Half of the world's hungry population is in the Indian subcontinent
• 40% of the world's starving population is Africa and Asia
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  Little, Daniel. "Web Resources on Famine." ChangingSociety. WordPress, 12 Sept. 2008. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. <http://changingsociety.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/web-resources-on-famine/>.

  

  
  

  "2011 World Hunger and Poverty Facts and Statistics." Hunger Notes. World Health Organization. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. <http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20facts%202002.htm>.