Some Perspective: More than 22,600 people died of hunger TODAY

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[–]Nemacolin 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Yeah. No. You are off by a factor of ten.

To begin with, the world suffers 151,000 deaths of all causes per day. Going off the 2016 numbers, the leading cause of death is cardiovascular disease. It kills about 48,000 people a day. Cancers are #2. They kill about half that. Respiratory diseases come in at #3. We lose 9,500 a day to that.

Starvation, death from hunger, is more complex. "Protein-energy Malnutrition"is the 20th largest killer. It takes about 310,000 lives a year. "Malnutrition,"is about #17 on the list. It kills 370,000 people a year. Taken together we get 680,000 deaths per year from the two. That is to say the two forms of starvation comes in at #15, just behind homicide as a killer.

So, 680,000/365 =1,850 or so deaths caused directly by malnutrition/day. You seem to have misplaced a decimal.

But, as I said, it is complex. Malnutrition weakens the body, especially of the young. Many people die of other causes because they were too weakened by hunger to fight off another infection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate#/media/File:Leading_cause_of_death_world.png

[–]HiddenFox 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The wiki article you posted was all.over the map. With data from 2016 to 2002. A google search will show about 25 000 a day die of hunger. WHO also supports this. OP original source link will lead you to worldmeters who further links sources that support 25 000 a day. Edit: correction

[–]Nemacolin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

When I click on your link I get an error message. No doubt something to do with my Saudi Internet connection.

Actually no. The table I used is from 2016. But let us pretend it was from fourteen years earlier. Just for amusement's sake. Are you saying that while deaths from starvation per day in that year was just under 2,000 now the number is more than ten times as many? That seems wonderfully imaginary.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

WHO has no credibility. Anyone citing WHO is an idiot.