What Do You Know About Hunger?

Facts for Action

840 million people are undernourished worldwide – about equal to the population of the Western Hemisphere.

1.2 billion people in developing countries live on $1 a day or less.

70% of those who suffer from hunger are women and children.

6 million children under age five die each year as a result of hunger.

More than 33 million U.S. citizens – one in ten households – cannot afford to meet their basic food needs.  If they all stood in a line at a food pantry in New York, the line would stretch to Los Angeles and back.  TWICE.

One in five U.S. children is born into poverty.  One in seven has no health insurance.