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HUNGER: DO YOU KNOW THE FACTS?
It is estimated that one billion
people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition. That's roughly 100
times as many as those who actually die from these causes each year.
About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes.
This is down from 35,000 ten years ago, and 41,000 twenty years ago.
Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the age of five.
Famine
and wars cause about 10% of hunger deaths, although these tend to be the ones
you hear about most often. The majority of hunger deaths are caused by chronic
malnutrition. Families facing extreme poverty are simply unable to get enough
food to eat.
In 1999, a year marked by good economic news, 31 million
Americans were food insecure, meaning they were either hungry or unsure of where
their next meal would come from. Of these Americans, 12 million were children.