�At-a-glance:�Feeding the world
Beating hunger

Land available

Water consumption

Fertilizer use

Fish stocks

Beating hunger
Food production has more than kept pace with population growth. The chart shows the number of people living in countries with different levels of calories available per person per day. Anything below 2,200 a calories per day is considered extremely low. The proportion of people living at this level has declined in recent decades.