← on nowLGR-061 · v0.1.0 · model · estimate 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.
- about 25,000 a day, half of them children. it is not a shortage. it is a distribution.source: FAO SOFI 2024; UN WFP; Cassidy et al. 2013
- every channel on this site is one channel.source: methodology note
live. this is the channel itself. embed it anywhere:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?channel=humans" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · humans"></iframe>
or the whole broadcast, every channel, the same for everyone:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?embed=1" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · on now, everywhere"></iframe>
how this number is built
- 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.
- range
- 7–11 million/yr
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- 'hunger-related' includes deaths where undernutrition is a contributing cause; the number is contested and the site rounds.
- becomes a feed
- OpenAQ, air in ten thousand cities right now
- dispute
- dispute LGR-061 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0