Painting by the numbers
Updated for budgeted 2004 figures.
| 6,000,000,000 | Approximate world population (That's 6 billion, or 6,000 cities each with a population of 1 million) |
| $862,000,000,000 | Approximate world-wide military budget, 1998, according to the Center for Defense Information, cdi.org |
| That's: | |
| $2,361,643,836 | a day |
| $98,401,826 | an hour |
| $1,640,030 | a minute |
| $27334 | World-wide military spending each Second |
| 45,000 | Approximate number of people who die of starvation every day or malnutrition-related diseases world-wide, according to the Center For Disease Control. |
| $24 | Dollars in one MONTH it takes World Vision to feed, house, clothe & educate a child in India, Africa, or Indonesia |
| $0.80 | Cost per DAY to do this. As in 60 hundredths of a dollar, as in 6 tenths of a dollar. That is 60 cents. |
| $36,000 | Daily cost to feed, house, clothe and educate all people who die of starvation |
| 0.021951 | Amount of time military spending would need to be suspended to feed these people, in minutes |
| 1.317049 | That's 1.3 seconds, or 130% of a second, as in just over 1 second, but not even close to 2 seconds military spending would need to be suspended in order to feed, clothe, house and educate all the people who die of starvation every day. |
Think globally.....Think universally......
