Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger!

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• Every year 15 million children die of hunger



• For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years



• The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving



• One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5.



• Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion (a majority of humanity) live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45% of the world's people.



• Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.



• To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only
  US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend
  on perfume each year.



• The assets of the world's three richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet.



• Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger

Extract from http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm

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