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POVERTY STATISTICS IN HAITI
- Malnutrition has stunted the growth of 47 percent of Haitian
children under age five.
- 80% of Haitians live on $150 (U.S.) a year.
- Households headed by women survive on an average
yearly income of $38 (U.S.) per person.
MALNUTRITION AND DISEASE STATISTICS
- 50% of all children suffer from severe malnutrition, and
25% have been diagnosed with acute malnutrition.
- An estimated 20% of the adults in Zambia are infected with
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
- 27% of expectant mothers have AIDS.
POVERTY STATISTICS IN NEPAL
- About half of the children under age five suffer from moderate
to severe malnutrition.
- Two out of three children experience stunted growth as a
result of malnutrition.
- One out of every two children between age three and six is
under weight.
Poverty statistics in the United States
- One in five people in a soup kitchen line is a child.
- 46 percent of food recipient households with children include
at least one child under age five.
- Nearly 10 percent of food recipient households have children
who have missed meals in the past month because they lacked food or the means
to obtain it.
- Over the past two decades, the poverty rate among working
families has increased by nearly 50 percent.
- 14.8 million people in the United States are members of working
poor families.
- Nearly half of all parents in working poor families lack
health insurance.
- Recent research indicates that even mild undernutrition experienced
by young children during critical periods of growth may lead to reductions
in physical growth and affect brain development.
- Of the more than 21 million emergency food recipients served
by the Second Harvest network, more than 8 million are children.
- Approximately 840 million people live with chronic, persistent
hunger.
- The vast majority of hungry people live in South Asia and
sub-Saharan Africa.
- Besides death, chronic malnutrition also causes impaired
vision, listlessness, stunted growth and greatly increased susceptibility
to disease.
- 10% of children in developing countries die before the age
of five.
- Famine and wars cause 10% of hunger deaths, while the majority
of hunger deaths are caused by chronic malnutrition.
- It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world
suffer from hunger and malnutrition.
Of the millions of hungry people who seek help
from America's Second Harvest, seniors account for:
- 16.5% of all emergency food pantry clients
- 17% of all soup kitchen clients
- 4% of all emergency shelter clients
