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By the Numbers: Hunger in the World

Hunger remains the world’s number one health risk. It kills more people than the planet’s most devastating diseases – such as, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis – combined.

  • 925 million people around the world live in a constant state of hunger. That’s more than the combined populations of Canada, the United States and the European Union (E.U.)
     
  • 146 million or 1 in 4 children in the world are underweight and malnourished.  Fifty percent of the world’s most hunger children are located in South Asia.
     
  • 10.9 million children, under five, die in developing countries each year. Malnutrition and hunger related diseases are responsible for more than 60% of these deaths. (UNICEF)
     
  • 60 percent of world’s hungry are women (women represent just over half of the world’s population)
     
  • 500 million in the Asian, African and Latin American countries are living in what World Bank calls “absolute poverty”.
     

 

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While most people in Western countries do not know hunger as "ceaseless discomfort, weakness, and pain", poverty knows no boundaries and it afflicts people in both developed and developing nations.

  • 9 – Canada is the ninth richest country in the OECD.
     
  • 1981– first Canadian food bank was opened in Edmonton.
     
  • 1,943– the number of food banks in Canada; also there are more than 3,000 national food programmes that provide assistance to those in need (Food Banking in Canada)
     
  • 94,000– the number of people who access a food bank for the first time each month.
     
  • 18– percentage of households that depend on food banks because employment income isn’t enough to make ends meet.
     
  • 851,014– the number of people assisted in Canada in 2011. That represents an increase of 25.9 % since 2008.


Of the 851,014 individuals assisted:
 

  • 37.9% – were children.
     
  • 47%– were women.
     
  • 4.4%– were seniors 65 and over.
     
  • 10%– self-identified as First Nations, Métis or Inuit overall in Canada, but in the four western provinces the self-identification was as high as 24%.
  • 11.4%– were recent immigrants or refugees, increasing to 18.5% in large cities.

 

 

Source: Hungercount survey 2011

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