Statistics
Hunger Statistics
Today in America, 23 million people are hungry. But it’s not just a national problem. Hunger exists right here in East Central Alabama. Food insecurity is closely linked to poverty. People suffer from hunger and food insecurity when they do not have the money to purchase nutritionally adequate food. More than 15 percent of Alabama residents live in poverty. In some counties in our service area, the number rises to almost 30 percent – one out of every three residents.
Alabama Hunger Facts
- 1 out of every 5 children in our area lives in poverty.
- 1 out of every 4 of Alabama’s seniors lives below the poverty level.
- Over 12% of Alabama citizens receive food stamps. The benefit level equates to 79 cents per meal.
- In 2004 Alabama had one of the Top 5 Highest Poverty Rates in the US
US Hunger Facts
- Over 49 million people including 16.7 million children are hungry in the United States
- 14.4% of U.S. households experience food insecurity or hunger
- 40 million Americans use "food stamps,” The USA’s leading defense against world hunger
World Hunger Facts
- The world has produced more than enough food to feed itself since the 1960s
- Hunger and malnutrition kill more people annually than AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria combined
- There are more children hungry worldwide than there are people in the United States
- Throughout the 1990's more than 100 million children died from illness and starvation. Those deaths could have been prevented for the price of what the world spent on its military in two days
- Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide - a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death
- By the time you finish reading these statistics, about ___ Children will have died from hunger
Watch This Video from Feeding America to learn more about Hunger in our Country:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPvtlllZ6tk&feature=player_embedded
For More Information about Hunger in the US and abroad:
- Auburn University’s War on Hunger: http://www.auburn.edu/event/hunger/index.php
- Universities Fighting World hunger: http://www.universitiesfightingworldhunger.org/
- Feeding America: http://feedingamerica.org/
- A Microsoft PowerPoint slide show that depicts the economic challenges for a family of four living in poverty: National Catholic Charities
- Universities Fighting World Hunger: http://www.universitiesfightingworldhunger.org/
- UN World Food Programme: http://www.wfp.org/
Auburn-Alabama Food Fight Statistics
For the past seventeen years, Auburn University and the University of Alabama students have competed with each other in the weeks prior to the Iron Bowl to see which University could raise the most food for their local food bank. The results from the past 17 years are listed below.
|
Auburn |
Alabama |
☆2010☆ |
234,116 |
218,510 |
2009 |
164,034 |
175,653 |
2008 |
212,195 |
270,915 |
2007 |
181,017 |
241,336 |
☆2006☆ |
172,492 |
150,414 |
☆2005☆ |
99,678 |
62,014 |
☆2004☆ |
104,088 |
67,708 |
☆2003☆ |
72,456 |
61,595 |
☆2002☆ |
63,292 |
47,067 |
☆2001☆ |
43,168 |
26,891 |
☆2000☆ |
37,692 |
34,047 |
1999 |
24,582 |
31,639 |
☆1998☆ |
26,043 |
20,474 |
☆1997☆ |
21,146 |
19,008 |
1996 |
12,585 |
16,530 |
1995 |
567 |
5,012 |
1994 |
1,790 |
1,982 |