in numbers

(Data refer to the most recent year and to the world, unless otherwise specified.)

our food and agriculture

8O%
2O
billion chickens
AROUND

Poultry birds make up over

of all livestock

1.4

Cattle and
make up 6% of all livestock

in the world

billion cattle in the world

There are over

buffaloes

156
million
of fish produced

provides
48%
of fish for human food

Aquaculture

tonnes

56%
of chickens

7
billion eggs laid
Agriculture and forestry account for total energy used 2%of

live in Asia

billion
sheep in the world

make up 7% in the world of the world's livestock

Sheep and goats

4.4 million fishing vessels

6O%

developing countries

of fish trade originates from

Agriculture

CO2
every year

emits 5 billion tonnes of

8O%

Annual
3,8oo km /year
3

of world cultivated area is rainfed

7o%
of world water withdrawal is used for agriculture

withdrawal more than

water
2.5%

12%
used for crop
of the worlds land area

38%
of the worlds land used

production FOR agriculture

22% of total AREA harvested used for

organic agricultural
management worldwide

37

million hectares under

FUEL

supplies 1o% of global energy needs

undernourishment

WOOD

freshwater

water is

of the worlds

coarse grains
tea, cocoa and spices
Global exports of coffee,

cover 1%of the worlds total

agricultural area

Vegetables

by 2o15 to meet

FEWER 34o undernourished

million prevalence of

WORLD FOOD SUMMITTARGET

land area FOREST decreased of covered by loss OF 36.5%

3o%

ANNUAL

since 199o-92
Fish provides
of animal PROTEIN intake per person

forests o.11%
of paper is recycled consumed annually 368 69
million tonnes
4oo million tonnes

between 2ooo-2o1o 1.O9 trillion US$

almost tripled

in 2o13 Global food

import bill is set to reach

8 4O million
undernourished
is the primary staple

MORE tHAN

people are

17%

5o% of paper produced annually

147
million tonnes

World imports of wheaT amount to

of agriculture

World production value

3.269.457 million US$

produce
Smallholders

for over 1 /2
the world's population

Rice 147 KG
per person
food supply
average annual

were grown

of potatoes

of oranges were harvested

of CEREALS

million tonnes

people work

1 in 3
work in agriculture
labourers

worldwide

in agriculture

8O% of food consumed

in developing countries

Meat
availability is
per capita per year

42 kg

PERSON per year

consumed PER

sweeteners

sugar and

23.5 KG

1O7
of bananas
were harvested

million tonnes

2.5 billion tonnes

produced

6O% of child

49.5% of the world

areas

live in rural

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