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February 23rd, 2009 at 5:26 am
12 children per minute will die of hunger related causes.
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:17 am
20.8 children a minute
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:23 am
12 children
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:59 am
12 children under 5.
Each minute.
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:29 am
12 children under five die every minute
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:46 am
12 children under 5 die every minute.
(and that is just hunger)
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:35 am
Twelve die 12 every minute from hunger.
Twenty every minute from poverty-related causes in general.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:12 pm
12 children
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:54 pm
(12) Twelve children die every minute.
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:11 pm
12 children…WAY too many. Makes me wish they would spend the stimulus money another way.
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Amen Sonya–the stimulus money could save the lives of over 2 million kids
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:59 pm
10 children die every minute.
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Okay so I’m pretty much the last person to get to answer today (my kids have had the stomach bug for the past week….interesting timing…makes me appreciate what we’ve been blessed with…that they aren’t going to die from a virus we casually just shrug off, “Oh it will run it’s course…” when millions of children die from illnesses less severe).
I’m going to go with 12 also.
March 9th, 2009 at 10:05 am
The answer is:
Six. More than 9 million children under age 5 die every year, and malnutrition accounts for more than one-third of these deaths. Most of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
(Source: unicef.org, November 2008)