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In total, it would take just
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Since then the top 256 most profitable corporations in the world have made$0
in pure profit. Solving world hunger would take just $32 billion per year. The profit so far is enough to lift0
starving people out of hunger.***
6.9 days
to solve world hunger for the year.***
What could we do with the other 358 days?
Sources and math:
- Corporate profit data from Forbes Global 2000 Leading Companies, May 2013.
- Cost of solving world hunger from Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, inflation adjusted to 2013 dollars.
- corporate-profit-calculations.ods
- Fun fact: sorting by revenue instead of profit returns $674,578 every single second.
- Doubly Fun fact: We actually already produce enough food to feed the population of the world 1.5 times over.