ESTIMATE OF ANIMALS SLAUGHTERED SINCE YOU VISITED THIS WEBSITE - A TOTAL OF MORE THAN 150 BILLION LAND & MARINE ANIMALS SLAUGHTERED EVERY YEAR.

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These are the numbers of animals killed worldwide by the meat, egg, and dairy industries since you opened this webpage. These numbers do NOT include the many millions of animals killed each year in vivisection laboratories. They do NOT include the millions of dogs and cats killed in animal shelters every year. They do NOT include the animals who died while held captive in the animal-slavery enterprises of circuses, rodeos, zoos, and marine parks. They do NOT include the animals killed while pressed into such blood sports as bullfighting, cockfighting, dogfighting, and bear-baiting, nor do they include horses and greyhounds who were exterminated after they were no longer deemed suitable for racing.

Data for the Kill Counter are based on worldwide animal slaughter statistics culled from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for the year 2003. According to these statistics, about 53 billion land animals are slaughtered annually worldwide. (It should be noted that at the time the numbers were compiled, they were the minimum numbers of animals killed each year. The actual numbers may be significantly greater insofar as some countries or territories either did not report, or deliberately excluded, some statistics.) Of the more than 200 countries researched, the top three—the United States, China, and Brazil—consume a staggering 46 percent of these animals as food. The United States alone consumes roughly 20 percent of all animals slaughtered for food even though it contains less than five percent of the world's population.

It's important to note that, since most of the available data are now eight years old as of 2011, these estimates are extremely conservative. It is now quite likely that in many of the categories noted, the current kill rates are as much as 10 percent higher than what is indicated here.

Estimating Slaughter of Marine Animals
Most animal-rights organizations will shun entirely the matter of quantifying marine-animal slaughter. That's because, in truth, it's impossible to predict with much precision how many marine animals are killed annually for food. To begin with, the world's fisheries record their catches in terms of metric tons, not the numbers of individuals that animal-rights groups are concerned about. Therefore, numbers of individuals must be projected from gross catch weights (and, where fish are farmed instead, gross production weights) divided by what are estimated to be average weights of the various species of marine animal called into question. But these are all moving targets at best.

Even the world's gross production and capture, measured in millions of metric tons, varies from year to year with changes in oceanic and environmental circumstances, and changes in local and global economies. These factors affect not only gross weights, but also the composition of catches, which also varies as one moves from country to country. When we add to the equation the staggering variety of marine animals fished and farmed for food, from the largest whales to the tiniest shrimp, we find that one cannot hope to calculate worldwide marine animal slaughter beyond a single significant digit of accuracy—an "order-of-magnitude" calculation which in this case amounts to the nearest tens of billions of individuals.

ADAPPT have settled on a rough estimate of 90 billion marine animals killed worldwide each year. (Many thanks to Gary Yourofsky at www.adaptt.org for the text and source code.

WORLD POPULATION
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WORLD HUNGER

• 925 million people do not have enough to eat — more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union combined.

• 98% of the world's undernourished people live in developing countries.

• Two-thirds of the world's hungry live in just 7 countries: Bangladesh, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia and Pakistan.

WHERE IS HUNGER THE WORST?

• Asia and the Pacific: 578 million
• Sub-Saharan Africa: 239 million
• Latin America and the Caribbean: 53 million
• Near East and North Africa: 37 million
• Developed countries: 19 million

60 percent of the world's hungry are women.

50 percent of pregnant women in developing countries lack proper maternal care, resulting in over 300,000 maternal deaths annually from childbirth.

1 out of 6 infants are born with a low birth weight in developing countries.

Malnutrition is the key factor contributing to more than one-third of all global child deaths resulting in 2.6 million deaths per year.

A third of all childhood death in sub-Saharan Africa is caused by hunger.

Every five seconds, a child dies from hunger-related diseases.

HIV/AIDS & OTHER DISEASES

• 35 million people are living with HIV/AIDS.
• 65 percent of young people living with HIV/AIDS are women.
• 90 percent of all children and 60 percent of all women living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa.
• More than 11 million children die each year from preventable health issues such as malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia.

POVERTY

• 1.4 billion people in developing countries live on $1.25 a day or less.
• Rural areas account for three out of every four people living on less than $1.25 a day.
• 22,000 children die each day due to conditions of poverty.

AGRICULTURE

• 75 percent of the world's poorest people — 1.4 billion women, children, and men — live in rural areas and depend on agriculture and related activities for their livelihood.
• 50 percent of hungry people are farming families.

WATER

• 1.7 billion people lack access to clean water.
• 2.3 billion people suffer from water-borne diseases each year.
• 12 percent of the world's population uses 85 percent of its water, and none of the 12 percent lives in developing countries.

Source: The Hunger Project