In the developing world, more than 1.2 billion people currently live below the international poverty line, earning less than $1 per day.

815 million people in the developing world are undernourished. They consume less than the minimum amount of calories essential for sound health and growth.

Nearly 2.5 billion of the world’s 6.3 billion people lack access to basic sanitation. One billion people lack access to safe drinking water. Contaminated water kills 2.2 million people per year.

1 billion of the worlds 2.2 billion children live in poverty.

The wealthiest fifth of the world’s people consume 86 percent of all goods and services, while the poorest fifth consumes 1 percent.

One fifth of humanity lives in countries where many people think nothing of spending $2 a day on a cappuccino. Another fifth of humanity survives on less than $1 a day and lives in countries where children die for want of a simple anti-mosquito bed net. - United Nation's Human Development Report

The United Nations Development Program estimates that the basic health and nutrition needs of the world's poorest people could be met for an additional $13 billion a year.

Hunger could be cut in half in the United States and worldwide by 2015 for seven cents per American per day.

Americans spend 33 billion annually on diet and weight loss products.

Americans spent more than $34 billion last year (2004) on their pets.