Statement by
James T. Morris
Executive Director
World Food Program
to
The US senate
March 15, 2007

-Chronic hunger among the poor is growing by more than 4 million per year since the mid-1990s
-In Africa, one person in three is malnourished
-WFP is feeding close to 100 million people a year, other international partners feed another 100 million.
-More than 852 million people today go to bed unsure of their next meal - half of them children.
-The world health organization describes hunger as the world's No.1 public health threat
-25,000 people- 18,000 of them children - die each day of hunger and related ailments
-That's one person dead, because of hunger and malnutrition, every 4 seconds - 365 days a year.
-In North Korea, the average seven- year- old is 20 pounds lighter and 8 inches shorter than his 7- year- old peer across the border in South Korea.
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Information collected by Anup Shah
http://www.globalissues.org/

2006 United Nations Human Development Report,

-Some 1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to water, and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation.
-Access to piped water into the household averages about 85% for the wealthiest 20% of the population, compared with 25% for the poorest 20%.
-Some 1.8 million child deaths each year as a result of diarrhoea
-Close to half of all people in developing countries suffering at any given time from a health problem caused by water and sanitation deficits.
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State of the World's Children, 2005, UNICEF
-10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (same as children population in France, Germany, Greece and Italy)
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Eileen Alt Powell, Some 600,000 join millionaire ranks in 2004, Associate Press, June 9, 2005
-about 0.13% of the world's population controlled 25% of the world's assets in 2004
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1998 Human Development Report, United Nations Development Programme
-20% of the population in the developed nations, consume 86% of the world's goods
-In 1960, the 20% of the world's people in the richest countries had 30 times the income of the poorest 20% — in 1997, 74 times as much.

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Top 200: The Rise of Corporate Global Power, by Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies, November 2000
-51 percent of the world's 100 hundred wealthiest bodies are corporations.
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Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names
The State of the World's Children, 1999, UNICEF

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-The developing world spends $13 on debt repayment for every $1 it receives in grants.
Global Development Finance, World Bank, 1999
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Human Development Report 2000, p. 82, United Nations Development Programme
-"The combined wealth of the world's 200 richest people hit $1 trillion in 1999; the combined incomes of the 582 million people living in the 43 least developed countries is $146 billion."
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-30,000 children die each day due to poverty.
State of the World's Children, 2005, UNICEF
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-The richest 50 million people in Europe and North America have the same income as 2.7 billion poor people. "The slice of the cake taken by 1% is the same size as that handed to the poorest 57%."
Larry Elliott, A cure worse than the disease, The Guardian, January 21, 2002
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-The world's 497 billionaires in 2001 registered a combined wealth of $1.54 trillion, well over the combined gross national products of all the nations of sub-Saharan Africa ($929.3 billion) or those of the oil-rich regions of the Middle East and North Africa ($1.34 trillion). It is also greater than the combined incomes of the poorest half of humanity.
John Cavanagh and Sarah Anderson , World's Billionaires Take a Hit, But Still Soar, The Institute for Policy Studies, March 6, 2002
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-A mere 12 percent of the world's population uses 85 percent of its water, and these 12 percent do not live in the Third World.
Maude Barlow, Water as Commodity - The Wrong Prescription, The Institute for Food and Development Policy, Backgrounder, Summer 2001, Vol. 7, No. 3
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Human Development Report 1998
the global priorities in spending in 1998
-Cosmetics in the United States 8 $U.S. Billions
-Ice cream in Europe 11
-Perfumes in Europe and the United States 12
-Business entertainment in Japan 35
-Alcoholic drinks in Europe 105
-Narcotics drugs in the world 400
-Military spending in the world 780
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=Needed water and sanitation for all 9

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