September 19, 2013 (Thursday)
I ran across a web site entitled, “Statisticbrain.com” today. It claims to have statistical facts concerning almost every aspect of life in the world today. The most disturbing facts on their site have to do with people starving. Here are the sad numbers:
Total number of children that die every year from hunger 1.5 million
Percent of world population considered to be starving 33%
Time between deaths of people who die from hunger 3.6 seconds
Total number of people in the world who suffer from hunger and malnutrition 800 million
Total number of people who do not have enough to eat 936 million people
Total percentage who do not have enough to eat who live in developing countries 98%
Total percentage of world’s hungry that live in 7 countries 65%
Number of people who died of hunger today 20,864
Total number of people who will die of hunger this year 7,615,360
Total percentage of U.S. households that are at risk of hunger 11%
There are myriads of ways for the individual who is concerned about this to do something about it. Each of us can and should do something.