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How many people die of hunger and its diseases each year?

humans · Homo sapiens
died of hunger and its diseases
9 million
a year
0.285
a second
24,641
a day
calories grown per person per day
~2 900

the world grows enough. about a third of the crop goes to animals, and most of what they eat does not come back as food.

method widely used UN-based estimate of ~9 million hunger-related deaths/yr; calories per capita from FAO food balance sheets; feed share from Cassidy et al. 2013.

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