Saddening Statistics
Statistics are compiled from various articles and surveys taken about the hunger in South America. Articles and surveys were found using an online database.
"Want to Slash Poverty" concludes:
- Brazil is in its "deepest" recession in history with more than 20% monthly inflation. With inflation and the recession, families in Brazil are stuggling to provide food and other basic necessities.
- South America's poverty rate is estimated to be 70%
- The average income of the mass people in South America is $1-$2 per day
- Although the statistics have improved since 2000, the South American countries are far from stability.
From Survey's taken from the WORLD FOOD PROGRAM (WFP) and Tierra America presented in "Latam: Region Faces New Outbreaks of Hunger"
- Argentina, Colombia and Peru in South America are the countries confronting acute situations today says a recent WFP survey.
- A devastatingly long drought in 2001 wiped out harvests in Guatemala leaving 60,000 children severely malnourished, and 6,000 in danger of dying of starvation.
- In Colombia and Peru, one in four people suffer from hunger.
- In Argentina half of the 37 million population lives in poverty.
- In Brazil, the government is in denial stating that 22 million of the countries 170 million people are affected by lack of food, but in reality a survery taken by the Brazilian Forum on Food security states that there are "44 Million Brazilians that suffer from hunger".
- According to Maria Ageitos, "size" is an irreversable side effect of malnutrition. It is evident in sunken eyes, protruding bellies, short statue and weights. They are about half of the normal size.
- The Brazilian baby Flaviana Duarte is now 19 months old and has been cared for at IPREDE for moderate malnutrition, flu and lack of apetite. She weights 25% below average for her below average height. Her mother has no employment and only receives help for Flaviana from her neighboors.
- In Venezuela, 90% of families do not have the suficient funds to obtain the "basic food basket".
Survey from "World in Focus: South America":
- 1/3 of South Americans survive on less that $1 a day.
- Reccession and Unemployment have hit their peak in Brazil and Argentina.
- More than 2 million people are unemployed (%18 percent or workforce).
- About 1/2 of Agerntinas middle class has joined the lower classes earning about $150 per month.