$880 million: The budget for UNHCR to assist an estimated 19.8 million refugees in 120 countries.
$3.2 billion: The annual budget for the World Food Program (largest relief agency in the world) to assist 104 million starving and malnourished people in 81 countries.
$12 billion: Budget for the entire U.N., including relief agencies.
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Formula To determine how many victims of extreme hunger could be assisted a year: Divide your number by $105.85 y/105.85= x
ex: To put the $200 million contract in perspective the U.S. could assist 1.8 million people who are suffering from extreme cases of hunger.
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800 million people are chronically hungry
4 billion people live in poverty.
214 million: Number of people identified
by the FAO as being the most
nutritionally deprived people on earth
($5.2 billion needed to assist them).
Cost Calculator
The following figures were provided by the World Food Program.
29 cents: The cost of a standard World Food Program (WFP)
emergency daily ration (consisting of cereals, pulses, vegetable
oils, salt and sugar).
19 cents: Cost of feeding one child a day in school (through the
WFP's school feeding program).
WFP emergency daily rations cost per person-
29 cents a day
$105.85 a year
WFP feed a child in school program cost-
19 cents a day
$69.35 a year