Fifteen children die of malnutrition ever 30 seconds

Half the world nearly three billion people live on less than two dollars a day

The wealth of the world’s three richest people is equal to the total GDP(gross Demestic product)of the poorest 48 nations

1.7 million children lives were lost in (2000) because word governments failed to reduce poverty levels

12 million kids left homeless because of conflict

The concentration of carbon dioxide is now 26 percent higher than It was 200 years ago

1/5 of the world’s six billion people have no land and no possessions at all they have no clean water to drink, they suffer from food scarcity, and they can't read or write

Each Year, the world farmers try to feed some 85 million additional people with 24 Billion fewer tons of topsoil

Number of hungry people still continue to increase

Violence and armed conflict dominated cause of famine Reported worldwide

War, conflict, terrorism, -prevents peace –optimal humanitarian assistance And foreign aid – as a result an uncountable amount of people will Suffer, and die prematurely

A few hundred millionaires now own as much wealth as the world’s poorest 2.5 billion people

Over 30 million Americans are starving every day –way over a billion globally

Is humanity psychologically healthy everywhere?

References- U.S Department of Commerce , Statistical Abstracts of the United States

Food and Agricultural Organizations –Sustainable food security

Journal Of Biotechnology

Underfed and overfed: The Global Epidemic

American Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2001

U.S News and World Reports

www.globalissues.org

Share Our Strength website

Various news reports- few statistic are 100 percent accurate- so look into it

Yourself.

Copyrighted –Darrell Fertakos 2004