Comments on: The World of 100

By: easy

easy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:57:57 +0000

to be fair, it’s almost impossible consistent and accurate stats off the net
I find there’s loads of contradictory info out there :)

By: prawn1

prawn1 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:49:25 +0000

I didn't have time to check on this, but I googled it now and from the global perspective, the figures for the food diagram do seem off as you say. According to World Hunger Notes, about one billion people are undernourished (is that the same as starving?) and from a population of 6.8 billion, that would make it 14%.

By: easy

easy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:36:29 +0000

this is somewhat of a paradox.

at face value it seems informative, but when you try put it into a global context it loses all relevance and/or perspective.

for instance the food infogram, 1% of the world’s population dying from starvation seems relatively small, but in actual numbers, that equates to +-65 million people. more than the population of south africa. which in my mind, sounds exponentially bigger than 1%.

By: Azraelz

Azraelz — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:00:11 +0000

would be nice to have perspective on SA alone.

By: Azraelz

Azraelz — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:59:46 +0000

kind of puts things in perspective…