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Domestic Hunger & Poverty Facts

Hunger And Homeless Report 2002.pdf (Be Patient, Large File)

Thirty-three million people-including 13 million children-live in households that experience hunger or the risk of hunger. This represents one in ten households in the United States (10 percent). ₁
3.1 percent of U.S. households experience hunger: they frequently skip meals or eat too little, sometimes going without food for a whole day. Nearly 8.5 million people, including 2.9 million children, live in these homes. ₁
7.3 percent of U.S. households are at risk of hunger: they have lower quality diets or must resort to seeking emergency food because they cannot always afford the food they need. 24.7 million people, including 9.9 million children, live in these homes. ₁
Preschool and school-aged children who experience severe hunger have higher levels of chronic illness, anxiety and depression, and behavior problems than children with no hunger, according to a recent study. ₂

Source material:

ERS Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Report No. (FANRR) 21, United States Department of Agriculture, March 2002.
Pediatrics, Vol. 110 No. 4, October 2002

International Facts on Hunger and Poverty

More than 840 million people in the world are malnourished-799 million of them are from the developing world. More than 153 million of them are under the age of 5. ₁
6 million children under the age of 5 die every year as a result of hunger. 1
Of the 6.2 billion people in today's world, 1.2 billion live on less than $1 per day. 2
The proportion of people living on less than $1 a day has fallen from 29 percent to 23 percent in the past 10 years, although that masks significant regional differences. ₃
The amount of money that the richest 1 percent of the world's people make each year equals what the poorest 57 percent make. ₂
The richest 5 percent of the world's people have incomes 114 times that of the poorest 5 percent. 2
Malnutrition can severely affect a child's intellectual development. Children who have stunted growth due to malnutrition score significantly lower on math and language achievement tests than do well-nourished children. ₄
Virtually every country in the world has the potential of growing sufficient food on a sustainable basis. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has set the minimum requirement for caloric intake per person per day at 2,350. Worldwide, there are 2,805 calories available per person per day ₅.
Fifty-four countries fall below that requirement; they do not produce enough food to feed their populations, nor can they afford to import the necessary commodities to make up the gap. Most of these countries are in sub-Saharan Africa. ₆

Health

In developing countries, 91 children out of 1,000 die before their fifth birthday. By comparison, in the United States eight children in 1,000 will die before turning five years old. 7
Each day in the developing world, more than 30,000 children die from mostly preventable and treatable causes such as diarrhea, acute respiratory infections, measles or malaria. These diseases are far more deadly to children who are stunted or underweight. ₂
12 million people die each year from lack of water, including 3 million children from waterborne disease: 1.1 billion lack access to clean water; 2.4 billion live without decent sanitation; and 4 billion without wastewater disposal. ₈
By the end of 2000, some 22 million people had died from AIDS, which has caused 13 million children to lose either their mother or both parents. ₂
40 million people are living with AIDS- 90 percent of them in developing countries and 75 percent of them in sub-Saharan Africa: 2.9 million are under the age of 14. ₂

Source material:

State of Food Insecurity in the World 2002. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Human Development Report 2002, Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World, United Nations Development Programme.
"Secretary-General Warns World Falling Short of Millennium Summit Commitments," Press Release from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, October 1, 2002.
State of the World's Children 1998. UNICEF.
FAO database; numbers for the year 2000.
Mapping of the Food Supply Gap 1998. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
State of the World's Children 2002: Goal 6. UNICEF.
Statements of World Bank Vice President of Environment and Socially Sustainable Development Network in Op-Ed piece

Matthew 25:34-46 " Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal."

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